Cisco Switches :: SG300 In Layer 3 For Routing Over MetroE
May 12, 2013
I have a project I am working on that will require routing over a MetroE circuit to connect a few sites together back to HQ. Although, I know this can be accomplished several ways, I have come up with a solution that I think will work, but would like you all's input as to whether this is adequate and if my thoughts on how to properly "organize" the network are right.
I have been working with the SG300 line in Layer 3 mode and have not had any issues in a test setup I have here in the office. Basically my thought is to have a single VLAN/subnet allocated for each physical site. That will handle the basic interoffice connectivity etc. I also have a need to prioritize voice/video traffic throughout the entire network. My plan was to create an additional VLAN/subnet to house the teleconferencing equipment. Thats pretty much the jist of the setup. My only question is how to properly prioritize the voice/video VLAN.
We have several of the SG300 Serices switches. We use them to route VLAN traffic to Remote Offices, Internet Connections, and WiFi Access Points.In one remote office we have a SG300-10 setup to route the HQ Network and the remote Office Subnet. The SG300 is Connected to HQ via Fiber and has multiple Tagged VLANs on it. If I do speed tests over the Fiber Link on the Incoming Tagged Netwotk I get Decent performance, 80Mbs. If I switch to a networtk that is not priginating from HQ, and have the SG300-10 route packet, I get dismal performance. 15-20Mbs.
I Fireded up a New SG300-28P FW v1.2.7.76. Added a the HQ VLAN 101 and new VLAN 1025 . Mapped some Tagged and untagged ports for each. Switch was connected to HQ Network as untagged VLAN 101. I put a laptop on an Untagged VLAN 101 port. Ran some tests, cam back with 750-850Mbs. Great. Put the same laptop on a Tagged 101 Port, Configured the NIC for Tagged VLAN 101, Same test, same Speeds, 750-850Mbs.I then Configured laptop for Tagged VLAN 1025. Connected to tagged VLAN 1025 port. Ran speed tests, resuts were 15-20Mbs!
I then Configured laptop for Untagged VLAN 1025. Connected to unagged VLAN 1025 port. Ran speed tests, resuts were 15-20Mbs!It was only the Laptop and the Connection to the HQ net on the SG300-28P. Why is the performance of this unit soooooo poor when it needs to route?Other Switches have FW v1.0.0.27 or FW v1.1.2.0. They have Similar speed issues. All Configured for Layer 3.
Now, the management interface is listening on all interfaces (IPs). But I would like to configure the switch to only listen on 10.0.9.254. What I need to configure or whether it is possible?
it says that the cisco sg300-28 managed switch default system mode is Layer 2. but i want to change it to layer 3.
i can't get inside the "Console Interface Main Menu" where the switching from L2 to L3 will be done.
I have done the ff:
1. Upgraded firmware to 1.1.2.0 (latest)
2. Reset the switch to factory defaults.
3. The guide stated that in order to perform telnet to the switch, you need to enable it. So I logged in first in to the web GUI and enable telnet service.
4. I can now start telnet on the switch but I can't see the "Switch main menu".
All I can see are these lines from telnet:
User Name:cisco Password:******
switchd5928c#
I just want to know how to get into the console interface main menu where these lines should appear so that i can change the system mode:
• System Configuration Menu • Port Status • Port Configuration • System Mode • Help • Logout
I am looking into bringing MetroE into our data center. I currently have a 3845 router and would like to find out if it can support a 300-500M MetrE link.
Also would you recommend a router or a switch that can handle 300M - 500M MetroE link ? Do you typically terminate MetroE link on a router or a switch ? can I terminate it directly to a routed port on a Nexus 7K ?
I have a situation where I have ethernet traffic from two separate networks/ip subnets (Subnet A and Subnet B) on a single ethernet connection. I have the need to separate the traffic into two separate networks and two isolated broadcast domains. I thought this could easily be accomplished with a Cisco 300 Layer 3 switch, but I can't get it to work correctly. I have the switch set to IP routing mode. I have three VLANs configured. VLAN 1 sees the combined Layer 2 & 3 ethernet traffic for both subnet A and subnet B. VLAN 10 has an IP address assigned from subnet A and is the gateway for devices within that subnet. VLAN 20 has an IP address assigned from subnet B and is the gateway for devices within that subnet. IP proxy arp is on by default and should be active.Devices in VLAN 10 can ping devices in VLAN 20 and devices in VLAN 20 can ping devices in VLAN 10. This appears to be working only because the switch is the default gateway for those components.
No devices or servers in VLAN 1 can ping VLAN 10 or VLAN 20 components, and VLAN 10 and VLAN 20 components can not ping VLAN 1. I analyzed the ARP traffic on VLAN 1 and the switch is not responding with its own MAC address for requests for IPs for active devices connected to VLAN 10 or VLAN 20. The Cisco documentation says that the device should be responding and acting as a router.I can not physically connect everthing on VLAN 1 directly to the switch, I can not make the switch the default gaeway for all devices on VLAN 1, and I can not create static routes directly to the VLAN 1 switch IP address for all devices that are part of VLAN 1, so I am stuck. I need the switch to let VLAN 1 components automatically know what is connected to VLAN 10 and VLAN 20.
I am willing to scrap this approach entirely if there is an easier way to do this. Put simply, I have a few devices in Subnet A that need to be isolated from Layer 2 & 3 traffic destined for a few devices in Subnet B, but I can't reconfigure my entire network to create these isolated broadcast domains.
i've a problem with my SF300-24 routing. That's my network configuration:
Port 1 to 12 assigned to VLAN 10 Port 13 to 23 assigned to VLAN 20 Port 24 has an ip 10.17.7.254 to connect with my deafult route, beacuse I've also a Linksys RV042 router, connected in turn with my ISP router, having an ip 10.17.7.1.
These are our first switches and seems like GUI is lot different than the online. Out intervlan routing is o not working. I am absolutely sure that I setup the switch in L3 mode since it allows me to create mutiple interfaces. I am hoping that this GUI issue is related to interVLAN routing.
Below is the blog I started for InterVlan issue [URL]
This is the link for online simulator and what I see in its IP tab. I know this switch is not SG300. [URL]
This is what I see on our switch.
Our switch version switchd64684#show version SW version 1.1.0.73 ( date 19-Jun-2011 time 18:10:49 ) Boot version 1.0.0.4 ( date 08-Apr-2010 time 16:37:57 ) HW version V01
I've been conducting research on configuring 3 distribution switches in my network which are Cisco Catalyst 4507's to communicate with our core over layer 3. Our core switch which is already configured at Layer 3 for intervlan routing is a Cisco Catalyst 6509.
I've got the configuration portion complete and all devices are able to communicate my only question is about QoS. Do I have to configure QoS at the layer 3 interfaces for voice, if so how is that completed. We have several vlans and separate the vlans for each building by voice and data. We only configure ports on the access switches with voice vlans for QoS and we use the auto qos option on these interfaces.
We have recently purchased a SG300 to break up our network which most consists of virtual machines via Bridged networking on network machines. I have created successfully Vlans and the physical machines are capable of communicating across the different subnets that I have created via the SG300 however the Virtual machines can no longer be reached.
We are currently designing Layer 3 to the edge EIGRP solution for our customers. The network is a hybrid of collapsed core (Core to access) as well as a three layer design (Core/Distro/Access) for connectivity to the Data Centre, Internet, Wireless Blocks etc.The core of the network contains two 6509-E switches interconnected on a Layer 3 Port channel (no VSS). Access Layer switches (3750-X series running Stackwiseplus protocol) connect to the core switches over p2p routed links and Distribution layer switches (3750X stackwiseplus) provide connectivity to the Data centre, Internet, wireless blocks etc.
The access and distribution switch stacks(Cisco 3750-X) are set up with two or three member switches with uplinks multihomed to the primary and secondary core switch with each uplink included in EIGRP. In each of the stacks, one of the switches controls the operation of the stack, which will be the stack master.As the Cisco Stackwise architecture is not SSO-capable but NSF aware, all Layer 3 fuctions must be re-established during a master switch outage. To minimize control plane impact and improve Layer3 convergence, uplinks should be diverse and originate from the member switches instead of the Master switches in the respective stack. This is as per Cisco recommended design solution.The above solution can be setup if there are more than two switches in the stack. i.e. uplinks are configured on the backup member switch modules.
1.But what about stack with two switches..Which switch should be set up as the Master for a two member stack with uplinks to the core primary and secondary from each switch(Master and Backup)
2. For Layer 3 routing, does the routing takes precedene over switch failures? Say for eg. In a two member stack, the master switch with uplink to primary fails, does EIGRP provide a fast convergence to route traffic via backup secondary and does not wait for the control plane on the switch stack to converge? All the access to core links will be set up for ECMP.
I have SG300-28P that I am using as layer-3 switch. Recently I ran in to SG300-52 switch and even though loading same firmware doesn't give me option to do layer-3 switching. For SG-300 I see options in GUI to create vlan interfaces under IP information section, while SG300-52 has IP information option only under the management section.let me know if these are 2 different hardware types and L3 is not possible on SG300-52. If its possible to enable L3 switching on SG300-52?
I have a connection on IP 192.168.1.21, Subnet 255.255.255.0 - this is on the default VLAN1 on the switch. I need to route this to IP 10.0.3.101, Subnet 255.255.252.0 - which is set up on VLAN2 on the switch. I have set the switch to Layer 3 via console.
how I setup this route? I am use the Browser based interface.
I setup switch in layer 3 mode. I have a access port in vlan 10 and a access port in vlan 20. I am able to ping form vlan 10 client to vlan20 default gateway (192.168.20.1) I am able to ping form vlan 20 client to vlan10 default gateway (192.168.10.1) However, I am unable to ping from vlan 10 to vlan 20 client. If both the ports are in same vlan, then clients are able to ping each other. Proxy Arp in enabled.
VLAN 100 with 192.168.100.0/24, default gateway 192.168.100.254 VLAN 110 with 192.168.110.0/24, default gateway 192.168.110.254 VLAN 120 with 172.16.0.0/16, default gateway 172.16.10.254
From the different VLANS(100,110,120) I am able to connect to all devices in the other VLANS (except for Native VLAN 1; it's not pingable)From switch cli I can ping my firewall (192.168.1.1) and all other vlan gateways and vlan devices (VLAN1,100,110,120) From asa cli I can only ping my switch port (192.168.1.254), but no other devices in the other VLANs.
What do I need to change or setup in the switch or asa configuration in order for the other vlans to access the Internet through the ASA. I will not use the ASA as intervlan routing device, because the switch is doing htis for meI tried changing the asa int e0/1 into trunkport (uplink port on switch also), to allow all vlans, but as soon as I do that I cannot ping to 192.168.1.254 from ASA cli anymore.
What does "ip routing" do on the CLI on the SG300? When I do this, I see it enables ip forwarding, but there is no mention of this in the CLI manual. I'm just trying to figure out what I would use this for, and if I should leave it enabled, or disable it. I have several different SG300 switches in L3 mode, and they are set up in a multi-vlan environment...
I have 4 Subnets VLAN 1 172.20.0.0/16 with the default GW 172.20.200.254 VLAN 10 192.168.10.0/24 with the default GW 192.168.10.2 VLAN 59 192.168.59.0/24 with the default GW 192.168.59.254 VLAN 130 192.168.130.0/24 with the default GW 192.168.130.254 [Code]....
With absolutly the same settings I did this with an HP E4200-12G L3 Switch (which is now doing the job) so there is no routing mistake in the other components.For me it looks like, the SG300 doesn't like to be NOT the default gateway.
A brief background on the setup: I recently switched out my switch. It was a Cisco 3750 10/100 switch and I wanted to upgrade to Gig. The cost of a Gig+POE 3750 is too much to bite so I opted for the SG300. My router is a Cisco 891. Here is the setup:
Cisco 891: two SVI's: vlan1 and vlan 100 Vlan1 = 10.0.1.1/24
[Code].....
With the 891+3750, I was able to add "ip pim sparse-dense-mode" on all the SVI's and hosts could join any multicast group, irregardless of which vlan the host was a member of.
Now I've changed switches, and I dont get the same love. I have the PIM statement on both SVI's on the 891, but Im unsure of what I need to configure on the SG300. I have enabled "Bridge multicast filtering" + "IGMP snooping". What can I do to get similar functionality using the SG300 + 891? I assume this is my lack of understanding IGMP in general, but was able to get away with it using the PIM statements on the 891+3750 stack.
Some tips and trick on how to configure and sg300 for intervlan routing.
I already have the switch set up for layer 3 I already set up multiple vlans and each vlan has a ip interface setup with the desired subnet I see the local routes set up in the static routing page.
I cannot seem to get from one subnet/vlan (I am using one subnet for each VLAN) to the next.
I have a SG300-28P that is our Main VLAN Switch. Though the VLANs that I have on it are there mostly because of our Edge Router and our AP541Ns.We have the Following VLANs defined (Subnets Changed to conseal Piblic IPs) [code]
VLAN200 and VLAN201 come into Our Edge Router and out on a Single GE Port via VLAN Tagged to thje SG300.The SG 300 Splits them out to Untagged Ports and they are connected to Two Firewalls, each with a IP in the 200 and 201 Subnets. The AP510 has the VLAN200, VLAN192 and VLA101 tagged Subnets sent to it. The AP521 has three SSID, each associated with a Paticular VLAN.
This all works fine, though there are a few hidden flaws. Since all of the VLANs are present, both Internal and Public IPs, one could craft packets form one network and use the SG300 as its gateway to the other subnet and Gain Access. How can I isolate the Subnets, so that I can still use the SG300 as a Default Gateway for the 10.1.0.0/16 Network Make it so if someone from the 10.1.0.0/16 netwok accesses the 201.201.201.0/24 Subnet it uses the SG300's 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 default router (the Firewall IP) and not the VLAN InterfaceIf somone in the 201, 200, 192 Subnets uses the SG300 as a Gateway and tries to access a 10.1.0.0/16 address it gets blocked.
configure my new SG300-28P. When I have started the switch, I have specified a new password and enabled telnet in order to setup the switch in Layer 3 mode.
After a restart, the switch took its IP address from a DHCP server. When I try to set a static IP address (192.168.2.1), I receive the following error message: Duplicated IP interface on the same subnet.
The IP address 192.168.2.1 is not used by any device within the network. For information, the message doesn't appear when the switch is in Layer 2 mode.
why I can't change the IP address of default vlan in Layer 3 mode ? All I can do is set the IP address to static or dynamic.
For test purpose, I have added 2 vlans. But I wasn't able to route traffic between vlan. how to configure the switch to route traffic between vlan?
find below details informations about my VLANs.
- Default (VLAN ID 1) IP Address : 192.168.2.1 Subnet : 255.255.255.0
I've seen lots of posts from people having problems routing traffic between two vlans with some complicated examples. Any simple step-by-step example for an SG300 switch (in layer 3 mode) to configure two vlans and sending traffic between the two vlans without an external router?
-VLAN1 10.10.10.0 -VLAN2 10.10.20.0
I've tried to do this through the GUI and can't seem to make it work. I'm missing something in the GUI.
I just purchased a SG300-10 switch and loaded the newest 1.27 firmware on it. Setup my VLANS and trunks but I have this weird issue. My setup:
I have the SG300-10 as my main switch and changed it over to L3 so it can be my main core in my small network. On port 1, vlan 200 is setup as my native PVID untagged and I have it set to trunk vlan's 210(LAN network), 220 (management vlan) tagged over to a Dell powerconnect 5224 24port switch. On port 1 of the Dell switch, I have it setup as a trunk there as well with the same setup (native PVID vlan set to 200 untagged, trunking 210 and 220 tagged).
I am trying to set up the SG300-52 and am struggling, I have a domain controller with IP address 192.168.0.1 I have a broadband router that is has a dynamc ip address. I have set up vlan1 aand vlan2
Vlan1 is getting its ip address from the domain which is 192.168.0.110 vlan2 is getting its ip from the broadband router.
I have setup Domain Name System in the Ip configuration tab
on Vlan1 I have a connected a dumb switch this connects all the computers in the local network. What I cannot get to work is the internet vlan.
who has setup up vlan routing with domain controller
I configure 3750 stack switch as core and 2960 stack switches as access layer switches.I connected my laptop to one of my core stack in VLAN 10 and I am pinging to one of my server in VLAN 1. What will be the minimum latency at the time of inter VALN routing
My organization wishes to host a LAN gaming event. The setup I have in mind involves a 24-port switch for connecting all the player computers and having that switch connected to a smaller "core" switch which has the the game server and router connected to it. I'd like to know if I can set things up as follows...
SG200-26 with ports 1-24 on seperate VLANs so they cannot talk to eachother. I'd then like ports 25 and 26 to be an aggregated (for bandwidth and redundancy) trunk port to carry all 24 VLANs plus an additional management VLAN (ex. VLAN 100) that will be used for accessing the switch. I'd like those aggregated trunk ports to connect to an SG300-10 "core" switch which will be connected to the game server and to a router for internet access.
I'd like the ability to have two network connections from the game server to the switch, one on the management VLAN and one on a different VLAN (ex. VLAN 50) that will be accessed by the players (ports 1-24 on the SG200-26). The core switch needs the ability to perform restricted inter-VLAN routing, in that it doesn't allow VLANs 1-24 to talk to eachother but they can talk to the server's VLAN but only through specific service ports (ex. port 12345, 12346). Is this possible?
Furthermore how would I configure the SG300-10 to allow VLANs 1-24 to talk to VLAN 50, but not themselves or VLAN 100. As well, I'll probably have the router on it's own VLAN (ex. VLAN 60) and allow VLANs 1-24 to access it but only through HTTP port 80 for web access.
now we have 2 switches: SF300-24..on one SF300-24 we config it at layer 3 mode with VLAN configuration same as following [code] And we use port 26 on 2 switches SF300-24 is trunk mode then we connect both SF300-24 switches.But on SF300-24 layer 2 cann't inderstand VLAN from Sf300-24 layer 3..How to config VLAN on 2 switches SF300-24 Layer 3 and SF300-24 layer 2?
I'm replacing 2 3COM 4500 Swithes with the SG300-52 Cisco switch. We have 3 VLANs, 10, 20, 100. The switch is set for Layer 3 and I have setup DHCP relay. what settings i should set on the Cisco for the following setups:
does the SG300 switches can be used with Microsoft NLB in Multicast mode?I know on traditional Catalyst switches you can statically "map" IP's to mac's and then to multiple ports but this doesn't seem to work correctly on the SG switches - it gives an error about the mac not being not Unicast?
Any snmpset commands to add, modify and delete vlan table entries on SG300-10 switches? I checked url... however this information is apparently only valid for catalysts. The latest firmware is installed and the provided MIB files are used.
