Guido64

I have this vlan network now over a year. I read, while setting up my vlans, not to use the main first vlan wich i didn't. Sorry my explaination wasn't complete. Same with static route to one gateway only, i also did that. Thats the weird thing i did all that and stil no stable Internet connection. There seems to be 2 different ways to vlan, layer 2 and layer 3 vlan. It might something to do with that? I'm not using any ip's in the config of my switch. I want the use my router to be the gateway for all vlans. I'm not exacly sure whats the difference between layer 2 and 3. One of both is mac switching and the other is ip switching or something like that. Other thing that i noticed is: I have a wireless accesspoint wich also uses 2 vlans tagged just like the debian host. Here however no problems on both vlans i can surf the internet normaly. The thing i noticed is that my accesspoint has a ip forward option checked on the management interface (Ikarus-os manager). Maybe thats the small difference my debian host needs ip forward option switched on?

Hello Geoff, I setup more or less the same network as you described above. I use a Procurve 2626 switch and a debian etch cli host configured with your option B, 2 tagged vlans. That works 100%, both vlans are working, I run a samba server on the machine it is broacasting and everything on both vlans i can send and receive files at great speed, so thats oke. The problem is however I can't seem to reach the Internet. I have vlan capable router on one of the gbit ports with trunked link for all the vlans. this is working for all untagged switch ports very well just not for the debian host with the tagged 2 vlans. The weird thing is: wen i use lynx to go to google that works most of the time. apt-get update is not working at all i can't reach any apt-get servers. I can ping google and everyting but its as if i lose packets, the internet connection is just not working right its very slow and most of the time i can't reach no internet service at all. do you have an idea what could be the problem here? I googled about this problem many days now and tried several things like adding and changing default gateway in static route on the host and router nothing seem to solve the problem. I hope you can help?