i cant get my vlans off of shutdown

[pctechnician]

vlan config
ip address 10.10.21.3 255.255.255.0
no ip direct broadcats
no ip route cache
shutdown

i go inside the vlan sub inf and i type no shutdown, but it still is shutdown. i think this may be a reason my vlans arent working.

A+,Network+,MCP

 

[eurobadger]

Hi

You can only have one VLAN IP address active in the switch at a time. The active one is the management VLAN. That is to say the switch can be accessed (telnet, ping) by using the IP address of the management VLAN. If you want to talk to the switch itself using 10.10.21.3 you will need to shutdown the active VLAN first.
The fact that the VLAN interfaces apart from one on the switch are shutdown is normal. The members of each VLAN will still talk to to each other, but they will not talk between VLANs unless some layer 3 device (a router) is introduced between them.

EB