There is a good white page that talks about VLAN routing on the 6024. It is a bit older of a document, so I would use it as a guide vs using it word for word, as some things change from firmware revision to firmware revision. [URL]   Things to consider: Native VLAN is not generally routable on these switches. The default native vlan is 1, so don’t expect that traffic to be able to communicate across switches to the different VLANs.   With the newer firmware on the 6024 I do not believe that static routes are needed.   Depending on the OS being used on the clients you may need to disable the firewall or modify rules on the firewall for ping to reply back.   Each VLAN needs to have its own subnet. For example. VLAN 10=10.0.10.0 VLAN 20=10.0.20.0 And so on   The IP address and gateway of your clients will be that of the VLAN they are in access mode for. So a client on the 2816 that is plugged into a port for VLAN 10 would need an IP address in the 10.0.10.0 subnet. And the gateway would be the IP address that was assigned to VLAN 10 on the 6024.   Only ip address given on the layer 2 switches are for the management/native VLAN. No other VLANs get ip addresses on the the layer 2 switches, just the layer 3.   That should get you started. Feel free to post up any questions or running configs for review.   Cheers.
Hello all, I'm trying to setup two VLANs consisted of just one computer each in a laboratory environment. The first one is connected to a Dell PowerConnect 2816 Switch and the other one to another manufacturer Switch as shown in the picture (both are Layer 2 Switches and are configured more or less in the same manner). On the upper level, each switch is connected to a Dell PowerConnect 6024 switch (which as you probably know is a Layer 3 Switch). I have problems in configuring the Layer 2 switches so that the VLANs can communicate with each other because from the little research I've done there is no way (?) to create a trunk link between each Layer 2 switch and the Layer 3 switch. So far I've created two VLANs (10 & 20) on the Layer 3 switch and assigned IP addresses on them with a view to routing the traffic through the default VLAN (to the firewall) without being completely sure how this done. As regards the Layer 2 switches, an IP address can only (?) be assigned to the default VLAN and I want to have two VLANs on the left switch (10 and default) and two VLANs on the right one (20 and default).  For the first step, I would like a recommendation on how I can get an echo request from the computer located in the other VLAN and on the second step expose the computers to the internet. An extra cables approach, instead of trunk links, is welcomed. Thank you very much in advance.  [IMAGE]  
VLAN configuration in a heterogeneous lab network 