Configure port to allow/forward and tag all VLANs configured in the switch

[kaare_t]

Hi all!

It's a bit hard to explain as I am not a switch expert, but I am trying to give a description below. If anything is unclear, please let me know and I will try and provide more/different information.

I have several switches (X440's), and I have about 12 VLAN's, and they are the same in all of them. Every time I create a new VLAN (not that often, but it happens), I first create the VLAN in all the switches - this is OK, and must be done. However, what I want to do is to have one or multiple ports in the switches to simply forward all my VLAN's. That way I don't have to both create the VLAN and configure the port to allow for the tagged VLAN.

So basically I would like one or several ports in each switch to forward, and tag all available VLAN's in the specific switch.

The reason for this is "of course" to only configure these trunk ports once, and only create new VLAN's when I need them.

Thanks in advance.

[kaare_t]

I think this is exactly what I'm looking (will certainly test it). Thanks a lot!!

[Karthik_Mohando]

Kaare,

I am not sure if this is what you are looking for.

Starting from 16.1 we have an option to specify VLAN-ID, list.

"configure vlan 2,5,6 add ports 1:1,1:5 tagged"

[kaare_t]

Thanks to both of you!!

Regarding scripting I think this will be the same amount of work for me since we're only talking about one port in each switch, but thanks for the tip. Will look into it.

[Edward_Tsui]

Hi Kaare,

I am sorry that there is no such feature to tag all the VLANs to particular port in EXOS(Some vendors call it trunk port). A newly created VLAN must be manually added to a port either tagged or untagged. Hope that there will be a feature change in future.

[Alexander_Roman]

You can use script to create and add vlan to nesessary ports.