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Server unreasonable from other VLANs. Help!
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It's probably ultimately to do with whether you've set the correct port profiles on the switch and whether you've set the right IP addresses.
I started writing an explanation of VLANs, tags, trunk and client ports, and IP addresses but it quickly got long and I'm sure other people have done a much better job explaining elsewhere, so I suggest you do a bit of background reading or watching.
But, very briefly - you configure switch ports through profiles. The profiles say which VLANs are sent through that port.
If there is more than one VLAN being sent through a port the switch will send traffic tagged with the VLAN it belongs to, you need to configure the device connected to the port to understand those different VLAN tags, have more than one IP address, etc. These are usually called trunk or tagged ports on the switch. The switch expects to receive Ethernet traffic from the device already tagged with which VLAN it belongs to. If it receives a frame from the device without a VLAN tag, it will usually put it in the default VLAN, which is 1 on most switches.
If the device is just on one VLAN, the switch port facing it needs to be told it is a client or untagged port on that VLAN. Then it will remove the VLAN tag before it sends traffic so your device only sees standard Ethernet frames and it doesn't need to understand VLANs at all. When your device sends traffic, the switch will put the right VLAN tag on it before sending it onwards. If you don't tell the switch which VLAN the port belongs to, it will usually assume 1. You need to make sure your device has an IP in the right range for the VLAN it's in.
Thank you so much. I just spent too much time looking at it yesterday. Fresh eyes and the gist of this got me there.
Turned out to be multiple issues. The switch port the server is connected to was not a client port like you said. I just totally overlooked this. I has all my ports set to client ports for their specific device just not the server...
And then it turns out I has the server configured to have a static IP with a subnet mask of /16 instead of /24. Fixed those two things and bam! works as expected.