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Netgear, mac-based VLANs, trunk to L3 switch

Hello,

We have Cisco and Dell switch back ground, but new to Netgear

We have two (2) Netgear M4100 series switches.

We need to implement source MAC-based VLANs as the devices in the warehouse can change which Ethernet jack they use.

The 10.0.1 Software Admin manual is not very clear on how to configure mac-based VLANs
http://www.downloads.netgear.com/docs/m4100/enu/202-11161-01/swa.pdf
(4 Steps as shown on pgs 26-29)

Setup:
- printers on VLAN 10
- PCs on VLAN 20
- trunk port from Netgear to L3 switch is port 26

We can get the devices recognized and assigned the correct VLAN by MAC address based on the MAC address table, but we can't get them to route correctly from the Netgear to the L3 switch.

Questions:
- How do we configure port 26 to be trunk port between Netgear and L3 switch?

Thank you in advance for your help,
-- Bill --

Hassan Besher

for trunking i think they're called tagged ports, these links should help:

http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/24758/~/how-do-i-enable-dynamic-vlan-assignment-on-smart-switch-models-gs516tp,

http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/24251/~/setting-up-vlans-between-cisco-%26-netgear-switches

wmhooper

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Hassan,

Thank you for your reply and for the two excellent links (we already had these plus others)

The Netgear MAC-based vlans do not use port assignments nor Radius server but internal Netgear MAC-to-VLAN assignment table. (http://www.downloads.netgear.com/docs/m4100/enu/202-11161-01/swa.pdf, pg 25-28.

The documentation mentions port assignment but this is not reasonable as there are no ports associate with a particular vlan.

Netgear support did confirm the documentation is incorrect and step 2 (CLI) and step 3 (GUI) are not necessary.

Before opening this question, we did set the "trunk port" to the L3 switch to T, Netgear Tagged which resulted in no traffic flowing through the trunk port.

So the question I have is:
Has anyone been able to get Netgear MAC-based VLANs to work with a L3 switch / router ?

thanks in advance for your help,

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wmhooper

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No solution was offered. Spent a few days hacking and found the solution.

Command line
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# to setup the VLAN and add the MAC addresses

vlan database
vlan 10,20
vlan name 10 "vlan10"
vlan name 20 "vlan20"
vlan association mac E0:DB:55:D0:6C:BE 20
vlan association mac E0:DB:55:D0:6C:CE 10
exit

# to associate a port with the VLAN
# as you can see, you will have an entry for each port - faster with the Web Interface

interface 0/1
vlan participation include 10,20
exit

interface 0/2
vlan participation include 10,20
exit

.... edited ....

interface 0/23
vlan participation include 10,20
exit

interface 0/24
vlan participation include 10,20
exit

# to configure the UP LINK (using port 25,26 LAG in this example)

interface lag 2
description 'Dell-Netgear'
port-channel load-balance 7
vlan participation include 10,20
vlan tagging 10,20
exit