A diagram would really help. -Matt
On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Travis Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > I am still having a slight issue with a new setup of a Cisco VLAN. > Here > is how things are now: > > We have about 60 Cisco switches (3500 series) all connected together > (one after another) in a giant "ring". Every fiber port has trunking > enabled for all three VLANS (1, 104, 105). On two of the switches > (separated by about 20 other switches) one FastEthernet port on each > switch has an "access vlan 105" setup. We also have spanning-tree > disabled on every switch but one (neither of the ones with the access > ports) and it does seem to be working correctly because one of the > fiber > ports shows "forwarding" and the other shows "blocking", which means > the > VLAN is going all the way around the ring (or so it seems). > > However, we can not get any traffic to pass. I have even installed a > traffic sniffer and setup the switch at our NOC with that VLAN (105) > and > there is only an occasional broadcast packet. > > Is there any kind of a limit to the number of switches that > spanning-tree or VLANs will traverse? What am I missing here? > > Travis > Microserv > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
