I understand the high level concepts of how this is supposed to work, but what I am looking for is specific instructions for how to do it on the Netgear switch I listed above. I am assuming that the native VLAN of the port is what netgear refers to as the PVID, but how do I add VLAN2 to the list of allowed VLANs permitted over the trunk? And how are the ports supposed to be tagged?
Please be specific to this exact switch. Netgear does everything a little different, so general, high level concepts are not what I am looking for as a solution.
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by: grbladesPosted on 2006-12-21 at 01:10:42ID: 18179058
Leave all ports in the default VLAN1.
Define VLAN 2
Enable 802.1q trunking on all ports.
Add VLAN2 to the list of allowed VLANs permitted over the trunk.
That way any normal device connected to a port will use the default VLAN1. The phones will use 802.1q tagging and tag all the packets so that they go over VLAN2.
For the port which connects to the firewall (I am guessing this is what you are calling the uplink port) it will probably be best to set the native VLAN of this port to 2 and not enable 802.1q trunking on this port. That way there is no special configuration required on the firewall.