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May 31st, 2022 10:00
PVID vs. VLAN membership
On our Dell switches, I've always just set the VLAN membership for a given port. Never really gave much thought to the PVID. However hooking up an android device today, it would not communicate unless the PVID was set to the same VLAN I gave it membership to. Android connected to port 27. Port 27 is a member of VLAN2. Port 27 PVID was set to 500. Changing port 27 PVID to 2 corrected the issue. While this makes sense, what confuses me was how all of our other 150 devices could work regardless of what PVID they were on. For example my pc is on a different switch. It's on port 7. Port 7 is a member of VLAN 503. Port 7 PVID is 503. If I remove port 7 from VLAN 503 membership and add it to VLAN 5 it works fine. It pulls the appropriate IP for VLAN etc. I did not change port 7's PVID. I'm missing something here but I can't put my finger on it.
DELL-Joey C
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May 31st, 2022 21:00
Hi @djhurt1,
PVID is default to VLAN1 if not configured. According to this user guide, to my understanding is that PVID need to be configured when you are configuring on VLAN. Or am I not understanding your question?
https://dell.to/3NbgUYU
djhurt1
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June 13th, 2022 08:00
I think what was happening is that most of the time when changing a ports vlan membership, it was automatically changing the PVID. However in some instances, it appears this doesn't happen. That is what was confusing to myself. So for the most part I've been ignoring the PVID and just changing th ports membership and that worked most of the time. However in this instance, the ports PVID was stuck on 500, even though I had changed the ports membership.