Please excuse the question as it might seem trivial or mundane to some, but I am just about there but cannot get a couple of vlans talking across a couple of switches.
Anyways, I have 4 6248's with a few vlans. I specifically want to get vlans 1 and 100 to be able to talk to each other (just between 2 switches for now), or at least a select few ports to communicate with vlan 100. Since these are L3 switches, I would like to do all the routing on the switches and leave the gateway out of it. What I am having a hard time understanding is the management aspect of it. Since the management ip sits on vlan 1, I need to move this in order to get vlan 1 to route correct? But my question is, how do i then configure the new management vlan so any port and vlan can communicate with it? I know the command would be ip address vlan 1000, but i would then lose connectivity if not consoled in - just need the proper guidance to make a sound config here.
As for the vlans (1 and 100), I did the usual as follows:
- Created the new vlan 100 and 1000 (for management)
- Assigned an IP to the new vlans
- enabled routing on the new vlan (except the new management)
- assigned ports to each vlan
- static ip routes have been assigned for vlan 100
- enabled routing globally
Is this now when I would have to move management to another vlan, then enable routing on vlan 1 in order to get vlans 1 and 100 to talk? And if they were to traverse uplinks, would I simply issue (and I am paraphrasing here) switchmode trunk allow vlan add 1, 100?