Regardless, the Issue here is giving a Switch a << secondary ip address >>
on the
interface, which is pointless.....Question to the Question is WHY?.....When
you give
your switch an ip address it's only just an IP Address to remotely connecty
to the
switch to run diags on it thru a < telnet/ rlogin/ lat/ etc... > If the NT
Administrator
is trying to blame the network; and he doesn't understand that Switches run
on
Layer-2 then it sounds like he needs to go back to school or take the lovely
MS Networking Essentials < ha, ha, ha > or get some actual network
experience......
Since we all know that the Lan Admins are always right and that it's always
a network
problem so us Network Admins have to deal with it over and over.......Okay
Okay, back
to the Question in Question here.....If you put a Secondary IP Address on
the switch it's
not doing anything for the Network itself; unless your using a L3
switch.....The reason
being is that the Switch is L2 and the Router-L3.....Your PC/Server doesn't
have a GW
of the Switch does it (( NO )).....Then why use up more IP's just cause the
Lan Admin doesn't know
how to network.....I mean if he's trying to blame it on the Network then
replace the Switch
with a hub; it's going to do basically the same thing other than the Switch
is more sophiscated
and will have a better broadcast domain and cut down on those goodies.....So
if the Lan Admin
wants to argue with that then tell him to go back to school and LEARN how
Networks really
function and then he can give you a reason of why it would be a network
problem and not
the NT Server's problem......Well there's my $0.02.....Hope this helps.....
JEK
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> Can a secondary IP be assigned to a Catalyst switch SC0 interface
> temporarily?
> If so, once I logon (by console/telnet) to the switch, I can troubleshoot
> the connectivity to an attached PC/server by pinging its IP address
> (assuming the secondary IP temporarily added is the same subnet as this
> PC/server IP address.)
> This will help troubleshooting the functionality of the TCPIP stack of the
> PC/server, don't you think?
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