hello, I defined 2 vlans on my catalyst which has 12 ports. I assigned a IP to the default VLAN management interface that is vlan1. then I Created a vlan2 and I put the port 10 11 and 12 to the vlan2 so that I have: vlan1 -> ports 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 vlan2 -> ports 10 11 12 I assigned an IP Address to vlan2. I WAnt vlan1 and vlan 2 to being attached to different networks separated from each other like having 2 different switches. the problem is that vlan2 is always set as shutdown. I can only have it avaliable if I set vlan2 as the default management interface but in this way vlan1 is automatically set as shutdown. That is I Cannot have 2 different vlans with 2 different IP addresses assigned to them and having the 2 different IP working at the same time, one of the 2 interfaces (THe one which is not the management interface) is put in shutdown. The IP Addresses belong to different networks and are 2 different class B IPs. is this behaviour normal ? the 2 vlans are working anyway as 2 different broadcast domains but only one of them is pingable since only one of them is "no shutdown" and that is the default management vlan interface. is there some way to fix it? thanks Rick