RE: 3550 Trunking and Fast EtherChannel

From: Christopher M. Heffner (cheffner@certified-labs.net)
Date: Tue Oct 22 2002 - 19:48:18 GMT-3


The straight forward answer to your question is "no".

Even though you can create subinterfaces on the routed port for the
Catalyst 3550 switch, you cannot specify the required encapsulation
command on the subinterfaces that would specify the isl or dot1q frame
type and the required vlan number assignment to that subinterface.
Therefore would not be able to do the inter-vlan routing on a single
routed port on the 3550 like you would be able to do on a 2600/3600
router.

Hope this helps.

Christopher M. Heffner, CCIE, CCSI
Strategic Network Solutions, Inc.
cheffner@certified-labs.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Martin [mailto:jmartin@capitalpremium.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 5:56 PM
To: CCIE GroupStudy
Subject: 3550 Trunking and Fast EtherChannel

I am wanting to practice with Routing between VLANs on my 2924xl.
I do not have access to any 2600 or 3600 routers with Fast Ethernet
intfs,
only 2500s which don't have fast eth.
So the question is, will configuring a trunk line and etherchannel
between
my 2924 and the routed intfs on my 3550 be the same as configuring it on
a
2600 or 3600 like they have in the lab?



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