I've recently come to be hired by a small manufacturing company that employs 4 Powerconnect 3548 and 4 Powerconnect 3548P switches. Being that my previous IT jobs worked more with server hardware, VMs, software, databases and not so much networking so I am having a bit of trouble.
We recently acquired a new Wire EDM machine that has the ability to keep track of water quality, remaining wire, machine efficiency, etc via a web/mobile device interface. The information is fed from the machine to a special network device which uploads it to the cloud platform. I did not want to put this on the same VLAN as our main network so I successfully created a new one. The few questions I have are:
There are 3 other VLANs currently setup with 10.255.10.1, 10.255.9.1 and 10.255.8.1 all using the firewall as the gateway. I would like to setup this new VLAN (10.255.7.1) to do the same. I just cannot seem to find the correct command for setting the gateway on this new VLAN. I do have the MAC of the firewall device.
Once in the console I did :
Sw4_Prod_PoE# config
Sw4_Prod_PoE(config)# int vlan 40
Sw4_Prod_PoE(config-if)# ip address 10.255.7.1 18:B1:69:19:AE:68
% bad parameter value
Sw4_Prod_PoE(config-if)# ip address 10.255.7.1 255.255.255.0 18:B1:69:19:AE:68
% Wrong number of parameters or invalid range, size or characters entered
Sw4_Prod_PoE(config-if)#
Showing the ARP table only shows the following:
Sw4_Prod_PoE# show arp
ARP timeout: 60000 Seconds
VLAN Interface IP address HW address status
--------------------- --------------- ------------------- ---------------
vlan 20 g4 10.255.9.1 18:b1:69:19:ae:68 dynamic
Could I run something like:
arp 10.255.7.1 vlan 40 18:B1:69:19:AE:68
I was not sure if this would strip away the assignment to 10.255.9.1 and end up breaking things.
My next question after that is how do I restrict this VLAN from other VLANs on the network but still allow it unrestricted access to the internet? Not only do I want the information to be uploaded to the cloud platform but also for the techs from the company who built it to be able to connect to it, update firmware, troubleshoot, fix, etc.
I have really been stuck on this and would appreciate any help that people would be willing to give. Thank you.
