VLan, Trunking question - help please.

[joewifi]

We are adding to a business using 3 netonix switches,that already has a sonicewall, and a dell switch. The netonix switches will be powering ubiquiti AP's.
We have a very simple vlan configuration on the sonicwall and dell switch. Vlan 1 = employees, vlan2 = guests.

When I click a check box on to enable Trunk Port
/
Allowed VLANs for a port (eg port 23), it auto populates a "T" in in the vlan2 row, but the vlan1 row is auto-set to "U". If I want, I can toggle vlan1 to "T", but my question is why isn't that happening automatically? Shouldn't both be T for tagged?


Thanks!

[sirhc]

1st I would upgrade to 1.4.7rc10 as there was a recent fix for VLANs - see release notes

You could do this several ways.

1) Leave VLAN 1 alone with all U's then check Truck on all ports or more accurately enabling VLAN access lists on all ports and I would then define the list with "1-2" since you have no other VLAN IDs

2) You could change VLAN 1 to all Ts and check Truck and modify access list to be "2" as then you now have defined 1 and 2 as allowed VLANs. 1 is defined in the Matrix and 2 is in the Allowed VLAN List.

BUT IF YOU DO THIS THEN YOU WOULD NO LONGER BE ABLE TO ACCESS THE SWITCH UI/CLI BY PLUGGING DIRECTLY IN WITHOUT MAKING DEFINING VLAN ID ON YOUR COMPUTER NIC.

There are many ways to achieve this but keep in mind the default VALN (the one on top) is the only VLAN the switch UI/CLI will respond to.