04-24-2019 03:05 PM
Hi all,
I am trying to put together a lab and am seeing problems.
As shown in the diagram I have a couple of end users at the bottom, 2 access switches and then 2 L3 switches in the distribution layer.
My aim was to route between the 2 VLANS that the end users sit on at the bottom via EIGRP in the distribution layer.
I have connectivity between the two production VLANs:
OfficeHost1#tr 10.1.20.50
Type escape sequence to abort.
Tracing the route to 10.1.20.50
VRF info: (vrf in name/id, vrf out name/id)
1 10.1.10.3 1004 msec 3 msec 3 msec
2 * *
10.1.20.50 9 msec
(This may be going over the l2 trunk in the access layer I am not sure)
Neighbors on distribution layer:
DistributionSW1#sh ip eigrp nei
EIGRP-IPv4 Neighbors for AS(50)
H Address Interface Hold Uptime SRTT RTO Q Seq
(sec) (ms) Cnt Num
3 10.1.99.3 Vl999 11 00:18:06 1991 5000 0 10
2 10.1.20.3 Vl20 14 00:18:07 4 100 0 9
1 10.1.10.3 Vl10 10 00:18:10 1999 5000 0 6
0 172.16.1.2 Gi3/3 13 00:18:43 1 100 0 4
My issue is, when I shut the trunk down between my two access switches I lose my 3 VLAN Neighbor adjacencies and I am just left with the 172.16.1.X nei via int gi3/3. The L3 switches must be establishing these adjacencies via the l2 trunk but I cannot figure out why.
I'm not sure where I'm going wrong here if I am honest, I have noticed that in most examples of the Cisco switch enterprise composite network model there is not a link between the access switches, but taking that out is what is causing me to lose said adjacencies.
PS. I just realised my diagram is incorrect, the P2P link between the distribution layer is obviously "no switchport" and should not be labelled as a trunk.
04-24-2019 04:14 PM
04-24-2019 11:06 PM
Hello
@Joe19 wrote:
EIGRP Neighbors establishing over l2 tunnel rather than over l3 P2P
I think this is your problem!
It looks like your not extending your L2 so you should have L2 interconnects when your wanting to extend the L3 down to the access layer, its either one of the other.
If you want L3 for distribution and access layer then remove the trunks between the two access layer switches and have the interconnect between the distribution switches as a access port assigned to a mgt vlan for eigrp peering and the same between distribution and access layer.
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