Cisco 2801 question

[flippedmedia1]

We have a data center and 4 different providers (FastE hand off's to them).

can we route traffic to each provider using the 4 port etherswitch card using the 2801 and hook our switch up to one of the on board 10/100 ports?

Any help would be great.

Thanks

[scottmac]

I don't believe so. The four-port switch module is acutally like a four-port switch, built into the router (all four ports on on the same VLAN).

So unless your providers are on the same network, or, you have a NAT on each of the lines for the address conversion, you probably cannot hook all four to the same module.

Good Luck

Scott

[Kevin Dorrell]

Scott,

If he means the WIC-4ESW, then he can do it. This is quite a useful little switch module, and can configure different ports on different VLANs. There are just a couple of tricks it cannot do: specifically it cannot run layer-3 directly on the ports. But what you can do it to assigned each port to a different VLAN, then create four SVIs to do the routing. I think it will even do dot1Q on the ports with a limit of 16 VLANs. There is a doc about it:

It used to be only for the 1700, but I think it goes on the 2800 now as well.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps221/products_data_sheet09186a00801c749d.html

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps221/prod_configuration_basics09186a00801a055a.html

Kevin Dorrell

Luxembourg