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ASR 920 as L2 Switch

vpmaharaj1
Level 1
Level 1

Hi, we are replacing two Layer 2 switches with ASR 920's. The devices were bought before me so we cannot change it. I am configuring the 920's as layer 2 switches. The two switches are connected to each other via portchannels and have a 10G connection to an upstream switch. I have configured MST on the two switches with both the switches in different regions. I have pasted the relevant configs below.  I will be deploying it soon and am hoping the following config looks ok? Ports 20-21 are portchannels to the other switch and Te00/24 is the connection to upstream switch. The rest of the port connect to customer equipment. The other switch config is similar.

 

 


facility-alarm critical exceed-action shutdown
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multilink bundle-name authenticated
!
!
license feature port bulk
license udi pid ASR-920-24TZ-M sn CAT2123V0HH
license boot level metroipaccess
archive
!
!
spanning-tree mode mst
spanning-tree pathcost method long
!
spanning-tree mst configuration
name SWI05
!
spanning-tree mst 0 priority 61440
spanning-tree vlan 1-4094 priority 61440
sdm prefer default
!
!
redundancy
bridge-domain 1
bridge-domain 260
bridge-domain 555
!
!
!
!
!
transceiver type all
monitoring
cdp run
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
interface Port-channel1
no ip address
negotiation auto
spanning-tree mst 0 cost 21000
service instance trunk 1 ethernet
encapsulation dot1q 1-2000
rewrite ingress tag pop 1 symmetric
l2protocol peer cdp stp
bridge-domain from-encapsulation
!
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/0/0
description AA
no ip address
negotiation auto
service instance 1 ethernet
encapsulation untagged
bridge-domain 1
!
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/0/1
no ip address
negotiation auto
service-policy BB
service instance 260 ethernet
encapsulation untagged
bridge-domain 260
!
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/0/2
no ip address
speed 100
no negotiation auto
spanning-tree portfast
service instance 80 ethernet
description CC
encapsulation untagged
bridge-domain 80
!
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/0/3
description DD
no ip address
negotiation auto
service instance 520 ethernet
encapsulation untagged
bridge-domain 520
!
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/0/4
no ip address
negotiation auto
spanning-tree portfast
service instance 85 ethernet
encapsulation untagged
bridge-domain 85
!
!
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.
.
.
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/0/20
description Portchannel to switch2
no ip address
negotiation auto
cdp enable
channel-group 1
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/0/21
description Portchannel to switch2
no ip address
negotiation auto
cdp enable
channel-group 1
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/0/22
no ip address
negotiation auto
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/0/23
!
!
interface TenGigabitEthernet0/0/24
description Fibre Link to upstream
no ip address
cdp enable
service instance trunk 1 ethernet
encapsulation dot1q 2-2000
rewrite ingress tag pop 1 symmetric
l2protocol peer cdp stp
bridge-domain from-encapsulation
!
service instance 2 ethernet
encapsulation untagged
l2protocol peer cdp stp
bridge-domain 1
!
!
interface TenGigabitEthernet0/0/25
no ip address
!
interface TenGigabitEthernet0/0/26
no ip address
!
interface TenGigabitEthernet0/0/27
no ip address
!
interface GigabitEthernet0
vrf forwarding Mgmt-intf
negotiation auto
!
interface BDI555
ip address x.x.x.1
!
ip default-gateway x.x.x.2
ip forward-protocol nd
!

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 x.x.x.2
!

 

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rb517b
Level 1
Level 1

Thank you for posting this. I'm also looking at using the ASR 920 primarily as an L2 switch. I've been digging through the Cisco docs on EVCs; and although I figured some things out, your config template helped me with some things I hadn't worked through yet.

 

Since you've probably had this in service for nearly a year now, has this config been working well for you?

Hi, yes it has worked pretty well and we have had no issues so far. Furthermore the 920's have proved to be quite robust. We have had no issues with them, never had to reboot nor had any hardware/software issues.

 

rgds

 

Vimal

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