10-07-2014 03:04 PM - edited 03-04-2019 11:55 PM
I'm configuring an 887VA router's fastethernet0 interface. What I want to do is trunk all VLAN's from this router to a cisco 2960 switch (or any other access layer switch really).
I'm seeing that there's a limitation on this 887VA of only being able to have 8 VLAN's configured locally on this device which is a little bit of an issue but I can probably work around this. I've got 7 VLAN's I need to trunk and I'd like to set 999 as my native and shutdown (which would be 8 VLAN's) and then VLAN 1 which can't be removed (which would be 9 VLAN's).
Realistically I can probably not even use VLAN 999 which would get me to the 8 VLAN limit.
Leaving me with the following VLAN's I need to trunk:
999
2100
2101
2102
2104
2105
2106
2108
There are 2 issues I'm running into which is the following:
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router# show vlans
No Virtual LANs configured.
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Even though I have those VLAN's configured in the router. I've also configured SVI's for each of those VLAN's so I'm not sure why I see them.
If I do a "show vlan-switch" I see those VLAN's in the list as active status though ??
Issue # 2 is the following:
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router(config)# interface fa0
router(config-if)# switchport trunk allowed vlan 2100
Command rejected: Bad VLAN allowed list. You have to include all default vlans, e.g. 1-2,1002-1005.
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I should also state my port configuration for fa0:
switchport trunk native vlan 999
switchport mode trunk
no ip address
I'm not sure why I can't just create a simple trunk port. I've also tried to apply the command "switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q". The router gives no feedback and it looks like it takes the command but after a "show run int fa0" it does not show up in the list of commands.
I could not find any example configurations anywhere for the 887VA.
Any help is greatly appreciated
10-07-2014 05:21 PM
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
This command ain't supported/accepted because the 4-port switch is a dumb down version of a 2960.
To enable the trunk you just need "switchport mode trunk" and that's it.
As to your VLANs, the system won't support VLANs 1002 and above. Like I said, it's a "dumb down" 2960 switch chip.
10-07-2014 05:28 PM
Yikes so there is no ability whatsoever to trunk over VLANs higher than 1002 ?
10-07-2014 06:04 PM
Depends on your IOS.
I've got 890 and I have a number of them running VLANs numbers 2000.
10-08-2014 07:15 AM
Ok yeah right now this 887VA came with:
c880data-universalk9-mz.152-4.M5.bin
I tried updating it to use: c800-universalk9-mz.SPA.153.3.M4.bin
however it wouldn't even take it. It refused to boot so luckily I was able to use the USB port to re-load using the original IOS version.
When I look up on Cisco's software support to download new IOS versions, I don't see anything that has a "c880" of anything else. I couldn't even find the IOS version that it came with on that site.
10-08-2014 02:48 PM
Firmware can be found HERE. The file you've used, is invalid or is NOT for the 887VA.
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