Routing on L3Switch without a router

sendalot

How do you enable intervlan communication between different vlans on a L3Switch without involving a router?

So many questions..

So do each vlan gets a different default gw on L3Switch?

Is tagging not involved since intervlan communication happens all in the inside?

Do you need a route in the L3Switch for the hosts to be able to talk to each other?

Thanks.

smarkyo

Here's a simple config...

PC1

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Switch

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PC2

PC1 (connects to f0/2): PC1 ip address is 20.0.0.20 255.0.0.0; the default gateway is set to 20.0.0.1
PC2 (connects to f0/3): PC2 ip address is 30.0.0.30 255.0.0.0; the default gateway is set to 30.0.0.1

Switch Configurations:
1) Create VLAN 2 & VLAN 3 broadcast domains

2) Assign f0/2 (PC1) as access port in VLAN 2
Assign f0/3 (PC2) as access port in VLAN 3

3) Create interface VLAN 2: ip address 20.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 (this will be the default-gateway for PC1 in VLAN 2)
Create interface VLAN 3: ip address 30.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 (this will be the default-gateway for PC2 in VLAN 3)

4) enable ip routing on the layer 3 switch

for your questions..
1) The VLAN interfaces act as the default-gateways for the VLAN broadcast domains.

2) No tagging. A trunk interface isn't required to route w/ one L3 switch and the routing happens between access ports which don't carry tagged frames.

3) When you enable IP routing, the routing table on the L3 switch will show directly connected routes to the VLAN broadcast domains.