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Hi,We have a situation where a switch needs to sit in the office space and not in a rack. However, we would like to avoid that someone connects another device on that port.So is it possible to resrict a port on a switch to only allow frames coming fr...
Hi all,We are facing a strange issue at the moment. We have some cables which are quite long around ~80m. on both sides we connect a patch cord of 3m. So we have a total length of 86m which is within specs. When I connect a device to that cable, I ca...
Hi,We are facing a somewhat strange situation.We have a server which is sending a multicast stream and which is connected to one of the ports of the 6509. on this 6509 we have also access switches connected. On all the switches we configured igmp sno...
Hi there,I got a 3750 switch and want to put it into production. However the version on the switch is quite old 12.1(19)EA1d . I went to the cisco website and decided to take the latest version. So I found that they have now 12.2 packages available.....
Hi All,As far as I understood, in metro ethernet the provider will provide an ethernet connection to the customer. So it is possible to connect it directly to a switch. However as far as I know it is not possible with 3560 switches to encrypt a link....
Hi all,We asked the company who installed the cableing to verify if there are any errors. Apparently there was an error between the mass and one pair hence the signal was disturbed.Hence there is no problem on the switch or the phone. However, I wou...
Hi Smitesh,The switch itself has no extra config. The port is configured as follows:interface GigabitEthernet1/2switchport access vlan dynamicswitchport mode accessno snmp trap link-statusnetwork-policy 30spanning-tree portfastThe network policy is a...
Hi Giuseppe,I only have line cards in that chasis so I will go with the 12.2(33)SXH5 version.Where can I find the document with the list of the bugs?Thanks a lot,Yves
Configuring it gets useful if you would like to specify which of your switches is the root bridge.You can trust the protocol to do this by its own but it is always better if you fully understand your network and know what is the normal path of a pack...
I think that STP is not 100% used when you have VSS configuration. But I think the underlying mechanism is still STP as a double protection.In my opinion I think that STP or better rstp should be used to ensure that you will not have any broadcast st...
