I stumbled onto something that has me scratching my head. I actually made a mistake in the lab but it still worked.
http://i.imgur.com/xyE0Bwz.png
SCENARIO: VLAN40 pc pings vlan 100 interface on switch and recieves reply. Notice the switch is configured with 10.0.4.1 as its gw.
Couple things I'm confused about.
1. How is the reply making its way back to 10.0.4.1 (its configured gw) and onto 10.0.4.2 w/ out going through 192.168.2.1 first?
2. Maybe the switch is smart enough to know that 10.0.4.1 is on another vlan and sends it out accordingly. However.... how is that switch even capable of doing this sort of "routing"? Isnt the point of vlan's to NOT allow that type of behavior?
http://i.imgur.com/xyE0Bwz.png
SCENARIO: VLAN40 pc pings vlan 100 interface on switch and recieves reply. Notice the switch is configured with 10.0.4.1 as its gw.
Couple things I'm confused about.
1. How is the reply making its way back to 10.0.4.1 (its configured gw) and onto 10.0.4.2 w/ out going through 192.168.2.1 first?
2. Maybe the switch is smart enough to know that 10.0.4.1 is on another vlan and sends it out accordingly. However.... how is that switch even capable of doing this sort of "routing"? Isnt the point of vlan's to NOT allow that type of behavior?