Trunk port Cisco Switch to Non-Cisco device?

[45664]

Hello,

I have a situation;  that I had to divide my Cisco Switch 3560-X into 10 vlans and have them routed to a port on an encoder? (not cisco)

I have created all the vlans with different subsets and all, created the trunk on the 1st port, routed everything on the port 1 but the encoder is not getting any thing.

My question is; Could it be that trunk work cisco-on-cisco connection or i am just wasting my time?

If it works cisco-to-nonCisco then how can i have 10vlans with 10different subnets having 10 different IPs to stream from single cisco port to the encoder?

many thanks in advance

GjB

[acampbell]

Hi,

As you have configured the cisco end as a trunk you will need to find out how the encoder supports and how to configure it for 802.1Q. (multiple vlans).

If it does not support 802.1Q then a trunk is useless and you need to investigates single vlan access port working with unicast/multicast.

Regards

Alex

[45664]

Alex,

Thanks for your quick reply, as it seems the encoder does not support 802.1Q, i am using the switch with a single vlan routing to encoders IP, but i wanted to separate the streams within the switch on individual vlans. I tried and i tried but never thought of 802.1Q on the encoder :(

Is there any other way around this situation; having 10vlan going on 1 port to a single GW?!

[Julio E. Moisa]

Hi,

Could you please share the model of that encoder, is it the brand? 802.1Q is basically a standard in our days, it should run this protocol implicit or explicitly. 

[45664]

Julio,

Actually it is not encoder it is multiplexer and it is ProStream1000 Harmonic.

[paul driver]

Hello

Why carnt you again just use a simple access port for the encoder  and the have the 3560 just do the routing?


res
Paul

[45664]

Paul,

I am routing my 10 services to the multiplexer (coz it is not encoder) but i have received complaints that the my stream of 40-50Mbs is being transmitted back as whole and in order to eliminate that since in a near future am gonna have another 10 service more; I wanted to divide them into vlan and have them trunk to one port. No loops no return traffic... at least thats what i think