Sorry this won't be of much help in regards to your question because I'm not much of a network guy. However, I've heard several times over the years that it's considered practice to shutdown vlan 1 for security reasons.
- Sean On Apr 12, 2012, at 3:20 PM, "Mike Gill" <lis...@canbyfoursquare.com> wrote: > Getting into VLAN's here. Would like some direction. > > I have a campus of several buildings connected back to an office building > with cat5. Each building has a switch providing network access to PC's, > printers, appliances, etc. Currently all the switches in use are unmanaged. > The goal is to allow guest wireless access to the internet, and deny any > access to the staff network from the guest network in these buildings. > > What I have at my disposal: > 1) Cisco (2) 2900XL & (5) 2950 switches (in a test setup on my desk) > 2) Access points that can be configured to use unique VLAN's for primary and > guest SSID's > > I'm reading a lot of documentation but struggling to find the practical > application in what I'm trying to do. I'm not experienced with Cisco at all, > but am comfortable on the command line. I've reset the switches to default > settings and assigned Vlan1 an ip I can get to via telnet and the Cisco > Network Assistant. > > These are old switches I know. I'm pondering upgrading our network to > gigabit, and if I do, the HP gear looks a lot better priced than Cisco. If > in spite of the upgrade costs anyone thinks I would be better off to do that > I would like to hear it. I need 48 ports in the office, three buildings with > 16 ports and two with 8 ports. > > -- > Mike > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
