IR809 - Switchport support Gi0 & Gi1

[pbelletty]

Hi Folks,

I have an IR809. The router has two GiEthernet ports which I believe are L3 interfaces. Do you know whether they can be setup as switchports?

I wish to put both ports in a VLAN and setup a L3 VLAN interface on the router but I don't think this is possible on the IR809.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Cheers,

Phil

[Richard Burts · Accepted solution]

Phil

I am not familiar with the IR809 so I spent some time looking through documentation for it. It does not seem to specify much about the Gig Ethernet interfaces. But I believe that you are correct that these are typical ISR router routed interfaces and as such can not be configured as switchports. But I believe that there is a way to achieve what you want. You should be able to configure IRB on this router, configure a bridge group and assign the bridge group to both Ethernet interfaes, and configure a BVI interface for the bridge group assigning the IP address to the BVI. Here is a link to a discussion which apparently was successful in configuring this.

https://supportforums.cisco.com/t5/wan-routing-and-switching/ir809-interface-vlan-command-not-working/td-p/2976398

HTH

Rick

[pbelletty]

Thanks for the reply and and finding a solution to the problem.

[Richard Burts]

Phil

I am glad that my suggestions were helpful. Thank you for marking this question as solved. This will help other readers in the forum to identify discussions that have helpful information.

HTH

Rick