Green,
I feel your pain. I lost a lot of time in my first attempt chasing
down switch ports. One tactic that has worked very well for me personally
(now) is to label it in the layer three drawing. What I do, is
draw/trace/etc. whatever lab I'm doing. When I label my ethernet
interfaces, I do a small dash and then I write S[1-4] out to the side. So,
as I'm looking at my layer 3 and I can't get subnet xyz to come up I can
look at the drawing quickly and see that R4 fe0/1 subnet goes to R6 fe0/1.
However, I can also see R4 fe0/1-S2 goes to R6 fe0/1-S3 so I know I need to
check the trunk between S2 and S3 for said VLAN.
So my ethernet port on my router "circle" will be labeled as so: 1/2-S2.
That represents Fe1/2-(goes to)S2. Obviously I don't need to write the
ethernet part. If I can't figure that out I shouldn't be taking the lab.
This was the easiest way for me to see them both on a single page. It's
part of my default drawing set up now and works great.
HTH
Charles
From: Green Packets <greenpackets_at_gmail.com>
To: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
Date: 07/20/2009 21:27
Subject: L2 diagram
Hi Group,
I wonder how did you draw L2 diagram while doing the task in the lab.
I found myself took quite a bit of time (around 20 minutes) to untangle
myself and sort out the physical & L2 details such as STP flow, Trunking,
VLAN assignment, Etherchannel, etc. I wonder if there's a faster and more
accurate way of doing it.
Thanks!
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Received on Tue Jul 21 2009 - 10:49:32 ART
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