RE: Sub-interface details

Hello Mr. Weaver,

Having read many of your posts in this GS, you sound to be an interesting
person to me.

"Been around for a many a long year and watched many a soul have trouble with
this one."

First, a piece of advice - Never underestimate the person. And you don't have
to give your advice if the point which you are trying to make is not very
sound.

Anyways "switchport mode trunk" is the first step you would do for this. I had
this configured and still with all the debug on I figured out that the traffic
was getting dropped because the native vlan was something else .... I guess it
was some troubleshooting trick which Cisco was trying to test me on.

The question revolved around if the "native vlan X" was supposed to be used or
not. I got it working in 10 minutes, but still I believe 10 minutes was too
long enough :)

Now, please don't start a FIRE on this one !!! No emails, I got my reply which
I was looking from Peter Kurdziel.

HTH,
Yuri

Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 19:39:32 -0400
Subject: Re: Sub-interface details
From: ccie.weaver_at_gmail.com
To: ebay_products_at_hotmail.com
CC: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com

I was gonna answer this ancient Chinese Secret... or but posted it on my blog
instead.

I'd say this issue and it's little brother/big brother account for the current
only 2000-4000 CCIE's a year right now versus the 4000-12,000 per year there
might be otherwise.

Tough issue.

Been around for a many a long year and watched many a soul have trouble with
this one.

Don't believe me - grab a 3524XL and connect it to a late model switch that is
not a 3550. Interesting? If at first you don't succeed - ask yourself...
why?

Now as far as this issue goes... it is a show-stopper.

switchport mode trunk

This is the magic you need.
Received on Sun May 10 2009 - 07:20:57 ART