> > I got back to this one today. Here is what I have at this time > Switch A Fibre port 50 tagged, VLAN 2 > Switch B Fibre port 50 tagged, VLAN 2 >
Port 49 & 50 just need to be set to TRUNK. Then they will carry both tagged and untagged packets across the fibre link between the 2 switches. The link to the 200/300 switches does not even match the screens I have on > these SG200-50p > You probably have an older firmware and the GUI has changed. > I did find another Cisco document that explained that I just needed > to tag the two ends of the the VLAN 2 fibre ports (port 50 on > each switch) that is what I have done but still get no data across > the fibre. > This is what I thought too. But looking at config samples from here, https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/switches/sg200-50p-50-port-gigabit-poe-smart-switch/model.html#ConfigurationExamplesandTechNotes , if a port is set to TRUNK it'll carry tagged & untagged packets. "Trunk — Designed to connect 2 switches. Carries both untagged packets and tagged packets." > > If I look at the Spanning Tree data, I see under STP Interface > settings > Switch A > 49 GE49 Enabled Disabled STP Designated 20000 128 Forwarding > 32768-f0:29:29:f5:43:bd 128-97 0 1 > 50 GE50 Enabled Disabled STP Designated 20000 128 Forwarding > 32768-f0:29:29:f5:43:bd 128-98 0 1 > > Switch B > > 49 GE49 Enabled Disabled STP Root 20000 128 Forwarding > 32768-f0:29:29:f5:43:bd 128-97 0 1 > 50 GE50 Enabled Disabled STP Alternate 20000 128 Discarding > 32768-f0:29:29:f5:43:bd 128-98 0 0 > This one says discarding for port 50, so suspect that is the issue. > Incorrect. P49 is the ROOT and P50 is the ALTERNATE. There can only be 1 root within a Spanning Tree. If the link on P40 goes down, P50 will become the new root and Spanning Tree will reconfigure itself on all the switches. One other question, all of the ports on the VLAN 2 are marked [Trunk] > should the end user/device ports be marked as [Access] or [General] I am > wondering if this is causing any issues. All of the ports on VLAN 1 are > also marked as [trunk] but they talk to anything that gets connected to the > switch. I thought I saw this before but I thought they were "greyed out" and not the active config. A good example of why I much prefer CLI over GUI for configuring network equip. All non-trunk ports, other than P49, P50, set to GENERAL for now just to see if we can get basic communication between the 2 switches on VLAN 20. I'd really like to see the actual config file if you're able to export it out. This is about as simple of a switch & vlan config there is. This shouldn't be such a project. _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
