Cisco 3550 configuration

[jjnagel102]

I am new to configuring Cisco switches and would like some assistance. Our network is a campus network and we will have two 3550's in our core and in another new building we will have two other 3550's. We have non-Cisco switches at the access layer. The new building should be on another network or vlan. My question is how do I configure the ports on the 3550's. From the network design it looks like the ports that connect the two 3550's together at each building are dot1q. Do I have to configure a port at each building as a layer 3 port to route between networks? Any configuration help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Prashanth Krishnappa]

You dont neccessarily need to configure port to be a L3 port. You can configure layer 3 VLAN interfaces. The following page should help

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/473/189.html

Since you have two 3550s, you might want to run HSRP for redundancy