One more thing, Frank, look at seeing if these devices
support IEEE 802.3ad which is a Link Aggregation
standard. It's recent and I haven't checked to see if
it's supported on the gear you mentioned or not.
--- "Erick B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Freddy,
>
> VTP is Cisco propiertary and the 3Com will not
> understand it. It might come up but it won't learn
> the
> VLANs. 3Com does standard 802.1q which is one
> spanning
> tree instance. I'm not sure offhand if they have
> their
> own method of doing spanning tree per VLAN like
> Cisco
> and others do.
>
> If you focus on one spanning tree instance for that
> link, VTP transparent mode, and use 802.1q then it
> should come up and be fine.
>
> Doing 'set port 1/1 nonegotiate' on the cisco side
> configures the cisco not to try to negotiate either
> the trunk or port channel features which would also
> be
> propiertary to cisco.
>
> --- freddy moreno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > what I did is :
> > configured port 1/1 on the 6506 as a trunk
> DOT1Q
> > VTP Domain test Server
> >
> > and configured the 3com port 3.1 with the DOT1Q
> > trunking as well.
> >
> > I was getting traffic running from the 3com but
> the
> > cisco was not receiving
> > until I ran the command
> > set port 1/1 nonegotiate
> > and the light turned on and everything started
> > working but I think I created
> > a spanning tree loop because other switches on my
> > test LAN lost
> > connectivity.
> > I am thinking either a VTP error or a VLAN
> > problem.
> > This is why I decided to post this here to see
> if
> > anyone had any
> > experience.
> >
> >
> > FMD
> >
> >
> >
> > ""freddy moreno"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> > message
> > 98m95v$a1u$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:98m95v$a1u$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > do any of you have experience connecting a 3com
> > Corebuilder 9000 to a
> > Cisco
> > > 6506
> > > using Gig Trunking?
> > > any gotchas, special things that need to be
> > done.
> > >
> > > please let me know than you
> > >
> > > thank you very much
> > >
> > >
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