*****OK SO AT FIRST GLANCE, THIS ISSUE SEEMS A BIT COMPLEX. THE MAIN ISSUE I NEED HELP NAILING DOWN IT THE DOT1Q TRUCK PORT FOR ALL PVLANS AND THE NATIVE VLAN. I JUST DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT TRUNKING AND PVLANS TO MAKE AN EDUCATED CONFIGURATION. IF YOU THINK YOU CAN HELP, PLEASE READ ON*****
Hi,
I am the brand new sysadmin for a local government in the Texas hill country. We are currently working to move our entire city network infrastructure off of a very old T1 web and onto the existing fiber backbone provided by Time Warner Cable. There are a total 14 sites. 10 that already have Cisco ME-3400 Metro Ethernet Switches in place. 3 that VPN through a Time Warner Cable Modem, and 1 that will remain on a T1. The ME's are own and managed by Time Warner and I am told there is nothing I need to do to them to get my equipment talking over their network. I have one my desk right now a New Cisco 2811 Router and a Catalyst 3560 PoE-24 Switch. I have been pulling my hair out for days trying to make sense of every thing and need a little guidance on what some of the best practices are for configuring such an environment. Here are the details
14 sites 192.168.0.0
Main Site (City Hall) is our primary site on Fiber where the majority of our Servers (DM's, Exchange, SQL, etc.) and our new Router is housed. Internet connection comes through this location. Will need to be on its own VLAN
192.168.101.0
2 sites already connected back to City Hall by Metro E. Both need to be be on their own VLANs 192.168.101.0
7 site to come off existing T1 link and onto Metro E. 7 individual VLAN's
192.168.101.0
3 sites that will remain on their VPN connections and respective subnets. NO VLANs
192.168.102.0
192.168.103.0
192.168.104.0
1 site (Police Dept) to move onto Metro E but stay on it's existing subnet. NO VLAN.
192.198.111.0
We are a small city government and budget has played a roll in everything we do with our network. The idea is to get off the T1 connections and eliminate as many routers as possible. I have spend weeks reading through Cisco configuration guides about VLAN's, Private-vlans, dot1q encapsulation, VLAN trunking, Metro Ethernet, but just cannot seem to grasp the concept. While I am young in the industry, I do know a little about switching and routing. Can someone offer up any guidance so I can be the hero around here from once.
Equipment already on hand (not including ME-3400 at each site)
3560PS PoE-24 City Hall
2811 Router City Hall
Equipment to be purchased
Each site will be getting some flavor of the Cisco 3560 Series Switch depending on their needs.
Help please
