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How to remove a Vlan configuration from a network
I have a network setup with a Dell 6024 switch setup with vlans. The server is a ms server 2003 with vlan setup with Intel nics and dhcp with 9 subnets. I want to replace the Dell switch with a basic layer 2 switch and put everything on 1 subnet. We only have 50 computers.
What is the best prosedure to remove the vlan from my network.
Thanks
What is the best prosedure to remove the vlan from my network.
Thanks
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When you remove the Dell switch, you will be in fact removing all of your VLANs. If you have no need for varying levels of security, then your plan will work fine. Using the various VLANs does allow for separate broadcast domains and would allow you to segment multicast traffic if that is desirable to you.
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The switch is being replaced because we had a problem with it and needed to be replaced. I did get it working but it is old and they did not want to spend alot of money on a switch so we bought a layer 2 switch. I did plug everything into the new switch but dhcp did not work because the server has a vlan setup with the nic cards. Even a static ip would not connect to the servers. I did not setup this network and have not worked with vlans. The dhcp server has 2 Intel nic cards configured with Intel proset software as a team with IEEE802.3ad dynamic link aggregation and vlan with qos. If I remove the vlan on the server and configure the nics IP address will that work with the new switch?
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Also in dhcp, the subnets say "active" under status column where it usaully says "running". I am not sure if dhcp is somehow tied to the vlans.
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Thanks i will try that now and post back.
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It turns out that there was another dell switch with vlan setup also. It works fine if I bypass the dell switch. Can I just remove the vlans in the dell switch?
If you have your NIC's setup to not tag packets and you choose to remove the extra VLAN's on PC switch I would highly recommend making a backup of your current running-config before making any significant config changes. On a Dell PowerConnect switch you can make a config backup using the web GUI or using TFTP server.
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Thanks but I can't figure out how to backup config using the GUI. I only see upload to TFTP or download to TFTP.
In that case, check this out: http://www.solarwinds.com/products/freetools/free_tftp_server.aspx
It's free.
It's free.
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Thanks I will try it