Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 23:49 Post subject: R8500 physical ports
there are 6 physical ports on the back of the router.
ports 5,6 seem to share the same config as port 4. When i set up a vlan on physical port #4 that is isolated with its own dhcp server, both physical port 5 and 6 have the same properties and act the same as #4. same ip addressing
there is extra columns for 5 and 6 under the swtich config tab.
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2022 6:57 Post subject:
What buildnumber are you running?
A lot has changed regarding VLAN's in recent builds (not saying your problem is solved, it is possible that your described problem is inherent to the switch layout)
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2022 20:34 Post subject:
All 6 ports are accounted for in nvram for both the R8000 and the R8500, but whether they are now accounted for on the switch config page, I can't say for sure as I have neither router available to check and don't have specific changes earmarked to pull out of a hat.
All 6 ports are accounted for in nvram for both the R8000 and the R8500, but whether they are now accounted for on the switch config page, I can't say for sure as I have neither router available to check and don't have specific changes earmarked to pull out of a hat.
they are, ive found the latest firmware..... and they are there.
the issue now is setting up a vlan on port 5 and 6. i had this working on the old firmware, but when entering the same config values in the new firmware it does not.
i have not loaded any backup configs. i entered everything again. i am wondering if the nvram needs reset? im not sure how to do that though?
All 6 ports are accounted for in nvram for both the R8000 and the R8500, but whether they are now accounted for on the switch config page, I can't say for sure as I have neither router available to check and don't have specific changes earmarked to pull out of a hat.
Administration -> Factory Defaults, actual hardware reset button on the back on the router, or via telnet / ssh 'nvram erase && reboot'.
sorry for the 100 questions.
all appears to be working properly now. i can setup a vlan on physical port 3 that is separate from all other ports and assigns ip address in the 172.168.30.x range to connecting devices.
but now when i use similar settings from port 3 to set up a a vlan on physical port 4. this works as well and it will assign ip addresses in the range of 172.168.40.x to connecting devices.
(note: i have 4 separate bridges setup for each vlan 3-6)
what i cannot figure out now is that ports 5 and 6 now exute the same properties as port 4. they do not follow the scheme i laid out to put port 5 on vlan 5 and assign ip addresses of 172.168.50.x it assigns an ip range the same as port 4.
same for port 6, it does the same as port 4 and 5.
is there something i need to do via ssh to separate out 5 and 6 so that they do now use port 4 settings?