Surely there are a lot of solutions; which I'd do is: Define a different VLAN for each floor. Connect the catalysts in each floor with trunk interfaces (802.1q) Connect a Fast or Giga ethernet interface from a router to one of the switches. You must setup that interface (both on the router an on the switch side) as DOT1Q. On the router you can do it with the following config:
-- Note: VLAN 101 - Floor 1 VLAN 102 - Floor 2 VLAN 103 - Floor 3 interface fastethernet 0/0 (for example) full-duplex (Duplex full?) speed 100 no ip address interface fastethernet 0/0.101 encap dot1q 101 ip address 10.100.1.254 255.255.255.0 interface fastethernet 0/0.102 encap dot1q 102 ip address 10.100.2.254 255.255.255.0 interface fastethernet 0/0.103 encap dot1q 103 ip address 10.100.3.254 255.255.255.0 If you tell us which switches are you using (cat or IOS based) I can put you a config for that; assuming they are IOS, it is more or less: --- Switch on floor 1: interface FastEthernet0/1 switchport access vlan 101 switchport mode access duplex full speed 100 interface FastEthernet0/2 switchport access vlan 101 switchport mode access duplex full speed 100 ....... ! Trunk to floor 2 interface FastEthernet0/10 switchport mode trunk duplex full speed 100 .............. Switch on floor 2: interface FastEthernet0/1 switchport access vlan 102 switchport mode access duplex full speed 100 interface FastEthernet0/2 switchport access vlan 102 switchport mode access duplex full speed 100 ....... ! Trunk to floor 1 interface FastEthernet0/10 switchport mode trunk duplex full speed 100 ! Trunk to floor 3 interface FastEthernet0/11 switchport mode trunk duplex full speed 100 ................................ Francisco Sedano Informatica Pronet CCIE Student :-) "Tamhankar, Nitin" Enviado por: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/01/2003 17:40 Por favor, responda a "Tamhankar, Nitin" Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Asunto: Subnet question [7:60711] This might be a very elementary question for some of you guys but I would appreciate the answer. If an office which has 3 different floors and has Cisco routers and catalyst switches and windows environment. We need to configure it in such a way that each floor is on its own subnet for example floor1 100.10.1.0 floor2 100.10.2.0 floor3 100.10.3.0 Also if a computer which has IP address in subnet 100.10.1.0 is moved from floor 1 to floor 2, it should not communicate with the network unless its IP address is changed to one in 100.10.2.0 subnet. How it can be accomplished? Thank you Nitin [GroupStudy.com removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef] Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=60754&t=60711 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]