asked on assigning ports to multiple VLANS
I will have an HP ProCurve 2510G-24 with two uplink ports trunked to an HP Procurve 2510G-48. In addition, I want to put a wireless access point for the guest wireless in the office on the 2510-24 (for phones and smart devices) and create a separate VLAN for that traffic. The access point traffic is going to travel along the trunked uplink ports but can I add the trunked ports to the access point VLAN as well as the main VLAN. The end goal is to have the guest wifi network available in a room where the signal is currently poor and have that traffic travel across the trunked ports but in its own VLAN. That way there will be a wired connection between the two guest WIFI access points.
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Elessar1
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The simple answer is that by design trunk ports carry as many VLANs as you want over them.
So if you have device ports in a VLAN on each switch and add that VLAN to the trunk port, at both ends, they will have layer 2 connectivity.
So if you have device ports in a VLAN on each switch and add that VLAN to the trunk port, at both ends, they will have layer 2 connectivity.
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Thank you, RealJ. You understood the question correctly - it was from the HP perspective since other devices have other commands/capabilities. Yes, I use STP to prevent looping.
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William Peck
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Rick_O_Shay is also correct. Thank you.
A trunked port can not be assigned to a VLAN. Trunk ports only pass multiple vlans through.
If I should rephrase your question, I'm assuming you have wireless access point already but the signal is very weak in a particular room
If that's the case, all you need is a repeater to broaden the signal in that room.
Please rephrase the question of my version is incorrect