Hi I'm a little rusty on ACLs but my understanding was that you normally need an implicit deny ip any at the bottom of the ACL. sorry if this suggestion is a silly one Hope this helps!Barry

Hiyou first need to set the mode to trunk or you can use auto if the other end is already a configured trunk on another switch but if you know it needs to be a trunk id just set it as trunk .so you run sw mode trunk as is mentioned above. you then n...

would I be correct in saying you have no problems until the backup link goes down, at which point you have ip connectivity but you cannot resolve names? so with the backup link unplugged you type 173.194.41.99 in the url bar and you get google?

Histupid question but is it possible that you have the wrong route as default? you could try using google's public dns servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and see if that makes any difference as this sounds to me like you are using the dns servers of your ba...

HiYes you are right in using a straight through as ports 1-4 on a linksys area esentially as switch For conectivity you will either need to have NAT on your 851W or RIP on both. Just for simplicity I'd use NAT which it looks like is already half set...