First thing to check is the Alcatel firmware release level. Several recent releases had serious problems with 802.1p trunk definitions.
Second, check the spanning tree resolution timeouts. Multiple VLANs on a single port is a pathological case for spanning tree design if it's implemented certain ways. The link behavior makes me think it's a firmware thing. Something is really unhappy in the software there. > We're having more adventures setting up VSWITCHes. Our OSA-E's are > configured 100Mb full duplex. Switches we're tried are > Alcaltel 6624 and > Alcatel 7700. Symptoms are the same - if the Alcatel switch port is > configured as a trunk at full duplex, we can't get a link > light. If the > switch is half duplex we get the link light but can't talk > through. If the > switch port is defined as a normal "host" port at full > duplex, the link > light comes on and we can connect Linux guests to the outside > (only on the > VLAN specified on the switch for that port, of course). > > This seems to be extraordinarily odd behaviour at the physical layer, > occurring whether we have the OSA attached to the VSWITCH or > anything else. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
