Cisco Switching/Routing :: 4900 - How To Verify Link Before VLAN Extension
Mar 23, 2012
we got a dark fiber betwwen two sites away from each other 30 Km,i need to connect this sites acts as backup dc to main dc in main site using cisco 4900 Switches in BK-DC anf 6513 in the main site,how can i verfiy if this fiber oparates as L2 and i can extend vlan servers,is it via "sh cdp neigh" and "sh vlan br"?
We need to connect several DSLAMs on the 4900 switch, every DSLAM has 4 VLANs configured (VOIP service, MGMT, ADSL Private, ADSL Public), and sends the traffic for each service tagged with appropriate VLAN id according to the table:
On the DSLAM side it is very simple configuration, just a normal trunk with 4 VLANs transversing the link. On the 4900 I need to isolate the traffic for ADSL PRIVATE & PUBLIC service so DSLAMs connected to the same switch do not have L2 connectivity between them. For VOIP and MGMT they must communicate with each other. DSLAM acts also as a VOIP GW so it must communicate with other DSLAMs for VOIP service. Also VLAN 200 is configured on ME 4900 for switch management traffic.
This 4900 Switch connects to MPLS PE router, which offers L3 VPN service for VOIP & MGMT service, and L2 VPN for ADSL service (PPPoE traffic to BRAS). Fortunately we have ES+ linecard to support many ethernet features. I tried this config:
1) VOIP, DSLAM-MGMT, MPLS-MGMT configured as normal VLANs 2) ADSL PUBLIC & PRIVATE configured as isolated secondary VLANs, primary VLAN for ADSL PRIVATE is 2008, for PUBLIC 2308 3) Configure DSLAM facing ports on ME 4900 as private-vlan trunks 4) Configure ME 4900 uplink port to MPLS PE as a private-vlan promiscous trunk 5) Configure ethernet services on MPLS PE for each tag that comes from ME 4900 (ES+ cards are awesome, i love them:D ) 6) Apply L3 VPN service for VOIP and DSLAM-MGMT, and L2 VPN for ADSL service.
But at least this last command should list on spanning tree forwarding state also the ADSL VLANs or not?
Here is the output of the show interface switchport.
At present we are having a 4900 series switch where we are running one monitor session.Additionaly we are in need of capturing VLAN traffic and set the destination to 2 * GE ports , both are in the same switch.Due to the limitation of two monitor sessions per switch , we thought of putting the destination ports as port channel but it looks like it is not supported.
We bought a pair of ASR 1004 to be installed at Primar & Secondary data center and one thing is to run OTV over it, but to do that, I have to extend multiple VLANs from my Core (Pair of Nexus 7010s) connected directly to the ASR is Primary Data center, I looked at some documents but didn't get a good idea about it, extend multiple VLANs from Nexus switch to an ASR.
we've had an issue with our network, we have 2 6509 connected with redundancy, which are connected with 2 x 4900 Switches, from which are connected to a ESX Chassis for visualization, the thing is that the ESX stopped working, and the 4900 switches, and the main core were suffering from overload, they hang on it very well, in order to stop the overload, one of the links to the ESX Chassis were disconnected from one of the 4900 switches. The CPU usage from the 4900 and the core(6509) went down below 40%, and then they started to migrate the virtual servers from the chassis to another 2 chassis that were added right after. They were actually working well, but suddenly the 6509 changed to the other supervisor after everything was OK. We were wondering what could have been the cause of this, maybe the virtual servers migrations, maybe the overload from the ESX ? We also had a few question, is there any need to reload the cores every few months as a planned task ? Because the cores have been up for more than 1 year. And also is there any kind of of tool to monitor the CPU status, or the status overall from the cores or the switches ?
We have two numbers of Cisco 4900 ME Switches. Basically want LAN failover from these devices. There are about 400 users in our network. I have attached rough network topology for your reference(I am not good at Microsoft Visio). Need to know implementation of the HSRP in these switches. Two distribution switches(Cisco 4900 ME Switches) are connected to 4 Access switches and these are connected to the LAN.
VLAN MAC address filter does not seem to be working on my 4900 switch. However the same config works fine when tested on my 3750 & 3560 switches.
Since user from different VLANs requires to be blocked, Unicast MAC address filter will not be feasible solution. VACL did not work on my 4506 switch too. K
i have configured SPAN on cisco 4900 series switches its a Loacal SPAN . as there is only commnads to complete this activity but hard luck its not working.
When I insert the TwinGig Converter in a Catalyst 4900M you get the following error message: Failed to read transceiver serial eeprom on port Te2/1, try reinserting.This error is probably because the device expects 10Gig transceivers to be connected to the device not 1Gig.I used the TwinGig 4 module and 8 SFP ports are connected. But when i type in the the "hw-module module <slot> port-group <group> select gigabitethernet" the command is not available. [code]
However no matter what I try, it never sees the GLC-SX gbics I have in the TwinGig converter.
PERSW001#sh interfaces status mod 2 Port Name Status Vlan Duplex Speed Type Te2/1 inactive 1 full 10G No X2 Te2/2 inactive 1 full 10G No X2 Te2/3 inactive 1 full 10G No X2
I've turned up a new layer 2 WAN link between two data centres and i'm having some trouble trying to logically figure out how things should be configured.As you can see from the diagram i've created, I have the link connected on port 13 on one switch and port 14 on the other. Both ports have an IP address assigned to them and they can both ping each other..
The problem comes when I need to add routes in order to get traffic flowing over the link.I added an IP address to switch 2 on the link interface (port 14) as: 192.168.4.10
I then added an IP address to switch 1 on the link interface (port 13) as:
192.168.1.10 192.168.2.10
When I tried to add 192.168.3.10, it said "192.168.3.0 overlaps with VLAN2626". This would be correct as Vlan 2626 has an IP address of 192.168.3.15.
However, if I remove the IP address from vlan 2626 and add 192.168.3.10 to vlan 2 (the link port VLAN), I would surely lose remote access to the switch. (I'm telnetting into the switch from a machine on vlan 2626).
I started to tinker with this by manually adding a route to a server in each location and seeing if I could get traffic to flow:
On server 1: route add 192.168.4.0 MASK 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.10 METRIC 1 On server 2: route add 192.168.1.0 MASK 255.255.255.0 192.168.4.10 METRIC 1
If I try to tracert 192.168.1.20 from server 2, the first hop is the default gateway instead of 192.168.4.10.
The ultimate goal is to add the static routes to the Layer 3 router/firewall, but before I do that, I need to be sure of what to add to that router (It's a manged firewall from the data centre, so I don't have access to it and I need to raise firewall change requests to get the work done, so want to ensure it's right first time.
I have pair of 5596 switches in vPC. One host say "HOST A" is connected to the primary vPC peer and other "HOST B" on secondary vPC peer.Both are in same VLAN 10. Both hosts are vpc orphan ports as their NIC is configured in active/standby mode.I have configured span session on both vPC peers with span source as VLAN 10 in rx mode.Span destination is connected to secondary vPC peer. The issue here is that I am not able to capture the traffic originating from HOST A destined to HOST B which is traversing vPC peer-link.Same issue occurs for the traffic in reverse way and span destination on primary vPC peer. In a nutshell, any traffic which crosses vPC peer-link is not getting captured.
What could be the issue and is there any solution for it. Below mentioned is the span config and relevant interfaces. [code]
Region : Hongkong Model : TL-WDR4900 Hardware Version : V1 Firmware Version : 3.14.0 Build 130206 Rel.34701n ISP : PCCW Netvigator
I have bought tp-link wdr-4900 for several days and encounter the following problems
1) nfs is not work, whenever I set up the nfs server (using hanewin nfs server), the media player fails to read the media file. (Problem does not appear for the previous ASUS n56u)
2) When there is large traffic rate (e.g. BitTorrent), the whole machine is very unstable, LAN and Wireless dies (SSID disappears, and LAN appears "ERR Connection" and "DNS not respond"), give me a feeling that the router cannot handle high traffic rate and the whole machine slows down and fails.
Between our hosting and a customer we have an extended vlan, traveling on a fiber, between two cisco 3560 switches.The thing is, that we want to create one or more vlans inside that extended vlan, in some way if possible?
I have two networks at two sites with a dot1q trunk between the two L3 switches at both sites (no routers involved)
SITE A - Cisco 3750 L3 - VLAN ID 50 10.10.50.0/24
SITE B - Cisco 3750 L3 - VLAN ID 50 10.20.50.0/24
I would like to extend the SITE A VLAN to SITE B so that I can move hosts from SITE A to SITE B without needing to change their IP address but the vlan ID is already in use. Obviously the easy solution is to change the VLAN ID for one or other of the sites but both sites contain hosts that run 24/7. Is there a way to join two VLANs with different IDs together.So for example I create a new VLAN 60 at SITE B and associate it with VLAN 50 at SITE A.
but on interface gi 1/0/1 i want to have data from vlan 10 tagged as VLAN 20. At this time i have solved this issue very primitively
I have set up gi 1/0/2 as int mode acces, acces vlan 20 and i have connected gi 1/0/2 with gi 1/0/3 with eth cable. int gi 1/0/3 is switchpor mode acces, switchport acces vlan 10
I have a 3750G switch in my production network that only has VLAN 1 on it. All ports are in a default state and VLAN 1 is disabled. The switch is passing traffic but shouldn't having the default VLAN shut down cause the ports not to pass traffic? If I start to create VLANs will that cause the switch to stop passing traffic?
I am trying to setup a L2tpv3 VLAN-to-VLAN tunnel.My setup has two Cisco 890 router with Cisco IOS Software version 15.0(1) M4. These routers are connected directly on FastEthernet port 8.
One linux machine is connected on FastEthernet port 0 on each router. The two linux machines are on same vlan. I am trying to establish a vlan-to-vlan tunnel between the routers and send traffic between the linux machines.
I followed the case study 11.4 from [URL] and configured the l2tp-class and pseudowire-class. However, the vlan interface configuration is different on 890 router.
We have a low bandwith (15-20 Mbit/s) to the ASA from our Client vlan. If i connect the Client to the same vlan as the ASA is, the bandwith (90 Mbit/s) is good.
And we have following error message in the log from the switch:
%PLATFORM_UCAST-4-PREFIX:
One or more specific prefixes could not be programmed into TCAM and are being covered by a less specific prefix, and the packets may be software forwarded I first get the idea that the switch is overloaded with router traffic. Thats why i assuming i have to check the sdm templates, but i'm not sure if this resolves the issue.
Any "best practices" or recommendations on how to migrate from a fixed router (3745) to vlan routing on Catalyst 4507 switches in order to minimize the disruption to the network.
I have a network with a Catalyst 3750 as the main switch and then some Catalyst 2960 switches that are plugged in to that. I have a server running windows server 2008 with a couple of virtual machines running in Hyper-V. I created 4 VLANS listed below and gave the 3750 the following IP Address.I would like the 3750 to only be configurable from VLAN 40 but currently every VLAN can connect to it, I noticed in the standard web page settings there was a setting for "Management VLAN" but it was set to 1 and would not let me change it, I kinda assumed that was for the management port in the back.-Now the tricky part, I was trying to set up routing between the VLANs and so far I have only been able to get a sort of "all or nothing" routing to work. I can turn IP routing on and add two or more VLANs to the routing and it works fine. But what I was hoping to do is create a couple of "junction vlans" that would only route to one or two other vlans. For instance, I wanted to create a VLAN 100 that routed to VLAN 20 and 30 but nothing else. I also want to route VLAN 1 just to VLAN 30, and so on. I am able to do each one of the cases but only one, it seems like the switch only supports one "routing table" am I missing something or is this just a limitation of the switch?
I have a network with several catalyst 2960 switches and one catalyst 3750. I have created two VLAN and set up the proper routing and everything is working fine there. I have a client/server application that used multicast in the initial start up for the client to determine available servers, the issue is one of my clients is on a different VLAN then the server. I am able to route the multicast using MVR as long as both the server and the client are plugged into the 3750 by creating a static route, making the server a source port and the client a receive port. Unfortunately I need the client and the server plugged in to different 2960s. My question is how do I establish multicast routing between the two and perferably do it dynamically (always route multicast traffic from one VLAN to another).
I have a DC topology based on 2 layers, access and aggregation, based on 2 pairs of N5548Ps, both without L3 Daugher Cards. My intent is to use the aggregation N5K pair as L3 inter VLAN layer, so I configured all the VLAN default GWs there. The 2 layers are interconnected via vPC, in a double-sided vPC topology for some N2Ks and some vSwitches. The point is that, despite connecitivity is working fairly ok, for some applications, like file transfer via either FTP or HTTP, between hosts in different VLANs, the performance is too poor. The file transfer starts ok, but after a while it becomes lower and lower. ICMP is working, but I can see some strange random behaviour, like having some packets taking more that 20 ms (sometimes 40 or more), whilst average is 2 ms.
I read through some articles saying that until you don´t have the L3 license (the one coming with L3 Daughter Cards) you can expect some weird behaviour on L3 level. Is that true?. What can I do apart of purchasing L3 Daughter Cards?. Can I enable L3 Basic license at the moment (I don´t need dynamic routing for now).
Here some excerpts of what I´m saying:
PING results: 10000 packets transmitted, 10000 packets received, 0.00% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 0.809/2.496/57.559 ms System version: 5.0(3)N2(1)
License and features on the N5Ks:
switch# sho license usage Feature Ins Lic Status Expiry Date Comments Count -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FCOE_NPV_PKG No - Unused - FM_SERVER_PKG No - Unused - ENTERPRISE_PKG No - Unused -
I have been looking into this for a while and I can't seem to figure out why my 2nd vlan is not able to connect properly to the net.
My switch has 12 ports where my devices connects directly, they are all on Vlan 1 and they all work perfectly. on Port 12 I have a dlink router that is connected to a cable modem. the dlink router has an Ip address of 192.168.0.20
I created a second vlan (vlan2) and enabled dhcp relay on it. then I assigned port 9 on the switch to (vlan2)my laptop which is connected to port 9 seems to get an ip address fine and able to ping only some devices on my network (vlan1) and is not able to go out to the internet. I think it has to do with the routes. [code]
We have two Cisco 5505 firewalls connecting to two ISP's . The two internal LAN's on the firewalls are 192.168.184.0/24 & 192.168.186.0/24. We also have a Cisco C3560x layer3 switch with vlan interfaces 184.3 & 186.3. We have two DGS-3100 Dlink layer 2 switches connecting our users to the Layer 3. Ip routing is enabled for intervlan communication & I can reach the Switch interfaces & firewall gateways from machines on both on the vlans.We have pbr enabled on the 3560 & users only on the .186 network can get to the internet. The switch is running the ipservices license & the sdm template is "desktop routing" .
Users on the .184 cannot access the internet but we can ping the layer3 interface & the firewall gateway. [code]