Cisco :: Can't Have Multiple Links From Each Access Layer Switch To Core / Distribution
Jan 24, 2013
I have been working on redesign of our network which was very challenging but almost there.We have a limited budget of around £20k(32k Dollor) Max. The cabling has been done before my time and it is very messy and cheap so you can not do a proper cisco hierarchical model at all.I can not have multiple links from each access layer switch to the core/distribution and as a result i had to connect some access switches together to introduces redundancy in a nutshell,we have two buildings, main building which has the server room in it and the other building which is just bunch of office. i have introduced a partial mesh on the normal building and have tried to introduce full mesh on the main building .
To setup SG300-20 as CORE switch and SF100-48 as Distribution switch.SG300-20 will have 2 VLAN(DATA and VOICE)
-192.168.14.1/24 DATA -172.168.0.1/24 VOICE
SF100-48 will also have 2 VLAN(DATA and VOICE)
-192.168.14.1/24 Desktop/Laptops -172.168.0.1/24 IP phones
Problem is when I tried to assign IP to any VLAN's the switch will just hang and loose my connection the light will stop blinking it will steady and i unable to access the switch until i turn off again?
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
We are using CISCO Catalyst 6500 switches as collapsed core/distribution switches (2 layer architecture). I want to connect approximatly 10 application servers to the network. Can I connect the servers directly to the catalyst 6500 switches using WS-X6148E-GE-TX line cards? The other option is to use access switchs and then connect the servers to the catalyst 6500 through access switch(Catalyst 3750).
I had a lot of questions when I began planning a pair of Nexus 7000 switches as a replacement for our 6500. How to publish my design and config. This is a medium sized network. I would have loved to see somone's configs for a similar implementation.
i am using Cisco ASA5510 Firewall on my network at the distrubution Layer . The Private IP Address is in the network for Users and PAT is use.I have a client who has configured the RDP on port2000. when the Users behind the Firewall in my Network tried RDP it does not work it shows configuring remote Desktop only. i am able to telnet the Client said server with port 2000 but unable RDP.Is any changes required on my firewall as a tesult the RDP works.
I have some questions in regards to network equipment I want re-utilize for my distribution layer in one of my buildings.The choices at the moment are:
OPTION 1.) 2x WS-3550-12G's (HSRP)
OPTION 2.) 1x WS-6509 with cards:
What option would be better from a performance aspect? We want to have network, voice, and wireless data go through this distribution layer switch(es).This is exisiting equipment I already have and can not buy anything else at the moment.
We have a Cisco 3750G Core switch which has physical connections, each configured as trunks to two HP Access switches. The client who uses these access switches would like to put a link between the two, but this would create a loop.
We were going to create a 2 port, layer 3 etherchannel between a 1002 router and a 3750X layer 3 core switch. We wanted to create bunled link between them but, now we are going to be putting a Riverbed device between the router and core switch. Because of this, would it be best to abandon the idea of creating a layer 3 etherchannel and just have 2 links from the router and core switch and have traffic load balance between the 2 links?The Riverbed will have 2 connections into it from the Core switch and 2 connections into it from the 1002 router. I was hoping to keep the layer 3 etherchannel but, do you think it would be best to create 2, /29 nets and have the router/Riverbed and Core Switch/Riverbed load balance.
As we know there are three layer in cisco Network Model:
-Core -Distribution -Access
So my question is in Core / Distribution layer should i use Etherchannel between switches or use Stacking if switches are stackble.For ex: suppose I have two cisco 3750 switches . so should i use etherchannel between them or use stacking in core layer?What are the advantages and disadv of both.
I've been taught/under the impression that vlans and stp stay in the access layer to prevent bridging loops and broadcast storms from taking down the whole network. Well I was reading about backbonefast and how it "Enables fast convergence in the networkbackbone or core layer switches after a spanning-tree topology change occurs." Now I thought that from the distribution layer up we use a routing protocol.
We have a site to site VPN from one client location to our production center in offshore. At the client side we have a PIX 515 used for the tunnel. Since the client requires a backup VPN over a different ISP we will have to add the ISP to the same PIX and then create the secondary VPN.
how we can acheive two ISP's on one PIX since only two Ethernet ports are availble.
I have an environment where i have two nexus 7010 switches, along with 2 nexus 5510's. I need to run OSPF as a layer 3 routing protocol between the vpc peer links. I have 1 link being used as a keep alive link, and 3 other links being used as a VpC link.
1) Is it best to configure a separate Vpc VLAN i.e 1010
2) Is it best to configure a vrf context keep-alive
3) just have the management address as the peer ip's.
I want to configure Reliable static routing with object tracking. I have a cisco 3825 and 3925 router in which the hsrp will be configured . Now these two routers are connected a remote site via three different WAN connectivity as under
1. MPLS 2. LL-1 3. LL-2
The priority of routing is also the same sequence.
Now if the MPLS goes down the remote site should be connected via LL-1. If both the MPLS and LL-1 goes down the remote site should be connected via LL-2.
The LL-1 is terminated on cisco 3825 and LL-2 is terminated on cisco 3925. MPLS is terminated on both cisco 3825 as well as 3925 router.
Whether multiple tracking options are available so that i can achieve the same. Topology diagram is attached.
We have Cisco 7609 routers in our network. We are using ppp multilinks between the sites. Because of the high traffic volume, we have to use multiple multilinks. 7609 router doesn't allow ppp multlink to span SIPs, so we use multiple mulitilinks between sites on different SIPs. OSPF for load balancing will be used. THE PROBLEM IS: when we define the second ppp multilink between two 7609 routers, the new multilink stays "inactive". Can we use multiple multilinks to the same router? We have enabled the command IP CEF DISTRIBUTED, but we still face the same problem". IOS used is: 122-18.SXF6
We have 4507 distribution switch in our network.I am trying to enable ssh in those switches but seems that ssh command is not supporting. IOS version - cat4500e-universal.SPA.03.03.00.SG.151-1.SG.bin
We have got a pair of N5K and 4 N2k. So far, we have configured VPC Keepalive (2x10G) & VPN Peer (1x1G) between N5K. Also we have configured one N2K with Dual Hommed VPC with both N5K.Now I am having some difficulties with desining/configuring EIGRP with Upstream routers/L3 65xxVSS switch.
Here are the queries.
1) Do I have to create another 1GE link between these 2 N5K to enable routing in between.
2) For these 2xN5K should I enable Eigrp on physical Interface or should I create VLAN & VRF to enable routing in between.
3) For N5K to Upstream L3 device should I have to configure EIGRP on physical Interface or should I create VLAN & VRF to proceed. We have 2 uplink each to connect to 2 DC and we are not planning to aggregate 2 links (VPC or L3 Ether Channel) for each site.
The two stacked Cisco 3750G Access switches on a particular floor in my coy just lost connectivity to the distribution Switch this morning. This meant that all Users connected to it couldnt connect to the Internet nor access local network resources.I couldn't ping the Switch IP, I couldn't also access the Switch via Console port. Each time I tried to gain access via the console port, I keep getting "Authentication Failed" message.What should I do next? How do I gain access to the Switch?
The field engineer has a stand alone 24 port 2900 series switch that he has different equipment connected to and are segmented using VLANs. So for example, he's got ports 1-4 assigned to VLAN 10, 5-12 assigned to VLAN 20, 13-19 assigned to VLAN 30 and 20-24 assigned to VLAN 40. He would like all the gear on VLAN 30 to have the ablity to talk to all of the other VLANS, but VLAN 40 should not be allowed to talk with any other VLAN. Trunking would do no good here since the switch isn't connected to anything and you can only assign one VLAN per port.
Is there a way to do this within the stand alone switch? The only possible way I could think of would be to ensure that each VLAN has an assigned IP number (subnet) and doing this through access lists.
In my Company there is a core Switch 4500 series , to which in the 1st module servers are connected and in the second module 2960 , 3750 series Switches are connected, problem is that the Utilization of Core switch is very high and the core gets hanged. the configuration of the senerio is VTP domain i.e core is Server and the rest are Clients....
there are more than 15 servers which include xen,esx,vmware,also san etc..which are connected to L3 core switch directly. And vlans are created for each.....xen,iscsi,vmware,xen,server. wanted to know is there any other technology other than directly connecting servers to core switch and assigning vlans that can be used in place?
We have a L3 core switch with multiple VLANs setup. Is there a way to place an IPS so as to monitor the traffic passing between, lets say, VLANS 1-3 and VLANs 4-10?
I am facing issue with LMS 4.0. The Core Switch is showing in RED color,and device type as UNKNOWN. It was working fine but some how it is showing this problem.
I want my core switch auto failover to other route if the primary route is link down it will go to the secondary route
example ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 1.1.1.1 ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 2.2.2.2 100
if my core switch detect next-hop 1.1.1.1 it will re-route and go to the 2.2.2.2 for the next-hop my core switch using static route and cant support ip sla
I am getting following error in Cisco 6509 switch.BUt there is no impact in the switch.
: %MAC_MOVE-SP-4-NOTIF: Host 0000.0c07.ac01 in vlan 694 is flapping between port Te8/1 and port Te7/1 29:33.959: %MAC_MOVE-SP-4-NOTIF: Host 0000.0c07.ac01 in vlan 269 is flapping between port Te7/1 and port Te8/1
I tried to implement WLC5508 in my network but when I came to connect it to the switch core which is a Catalyst 4000 the link didn't get up. This switch module is a fastethernet, I wonder if that might be the problem since I also tried connecting my laptop to the WLC and the link got up.
If that might be the cause, is it possible to get WLC to 100 Mbps?
My CORE Switch 4507R Suddenly restarted (Powe is good) , and gets the business down for 30 Mts,my boss came to me and asks why it has restarted , what is the root cause of this restart, i dont have any syslog or NMS enabled in my network to be informed
I got new task moving WS-3560X24 port layer 3 core switch from one branch to be moved to my branch and connect WS3560 layer 3 core switch my site network. Both core switch has got 3-4 cisco 2960 switch underneath and lots of vlan offcourse. I am thinking about creating etherchannel between these two switch.
I have a L3 core switch with multiple VLANs setup. Is there a way to place an IPS so as to monitor the traffic passing between, lets say, VLANS 1-3 and VLANs 4-10?
