lauren73 (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
Thanks a lot! I am sorry for confusing you. But the fact is that the 2 boards are connected as the following drawing. The hardware is designed as this. I need to download kernel for board 2 from hard drive of board 1. Usually switch cannot talk to switch without bridge or router. So in this case I think I need VPN in order to download the kernel using tftp.
I think you are mixing VLANs with VPNs here (o;
Yes..switches don't talk to each other usually but can be connected together without problems...they just forward packets and don't care about IP addresses (mostly ;o).
Just make sure the source/destination IP addresses are within same subnet..that's all...
Otherwise I would suggest some TCP/IP reading material first..
best regards rick