Switching

I recently tried to upgrade a Sup32 (6500 chassis) from CatOS to IOS. I'm a Cisco rookie (still green, fresh out of college), and I ran into some issues. The IOS image that I copied to the bootdisk is 50MEGS. The image also ended up being corrupt (I'...

How can I setup a Cisco 3750 Fibre Switch to accept mulitple connections to a SAN?

All: this port config below, is an end user port 201 is for data, 246 is for voice. What is the command: "switchport trunk native vlan 205" doing? interface FastEthernet1/0/18 switchport access vlan 201 switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q switchpo...

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post, but I can't seen to find the answer after several hours of searching online.I'm working with an 1841 router with 2 ethernet ports. What I want to do is to set them to foward packets back and forth. T...

Hi Everyone,I have a Dell server setup with Nic teaming. I have 5 3750G switches setup as a stack. I have the two nics plugged into different switches within the stack.Is this a valid configuration? do the two nic have to be plugged into the same phy...

I had a situation recently in which a Gig port was connected to another vendor's equipment. The port was statically configured as a .1q trunk.Oddly, it was reporting being in an administrative mode of 'trunk', but an operational mode of 'static acce...

Im sorry if this is a obvious answer someplace, but i looked and i couldn't find any significant information. We have just purchased a 7206 VXR router with IP Plus. My question is that the IP Plus enable me to do that the standard ISO does not?

I have one OS2 server and 3 OS2 w/s directly connected to a single switch. The devices can communicate via layer 2 on a 1900 switch as well as a 5500 switch. However I am trying to connect them to a 3560 or a 3745. On the IOS based switches they do n...

Looking through a test lash-up in our lab, I've been playing with labels on 7200s and 7600 (Sup32). I've come across 7200 appear to support 2^20 max labels (per RFC Draft), however the 7600 won't configure past 2^19. Does anyone know what that "bonus...

Hi, we replaced a MS-TS2003 acting as router with a PIX501, haven't touched any other equipment. Did set RIP on the PIX as both default and passive version 2. The routing table to the secondary cisco device, is there - but when doing a trace from the...

I have 2 core switches on LAN and main router is connected to one of the switches. I want core router to connect both switches for high availability. Currently, router ethernet interface has multiple sub-interfaces for different VLANs. Is it possible...

Hello, where could i find some actual information about the compatility of 6503, 6503-E chassis and their interfaces. To be more exact, i'm looking for the information, if the WS-X6724-SFP interface card is compatible with 6503 or 6503-E. If so, what...

Hi, in our network of approx. 50 switches/routers we have a vlan with two different root bridges on different switches in the topology. Any idea how this can happen?