[nsp] My Catalyst 2948G locked

[Stephen J. Wilcox]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:

> > We have a customer that is also using a 2948G-L3, and it also locks up
> > every now and then.  The chassis has already been swapped, various IOS
> > versions tested (right now we're at cat2948g-in-mz.120-14.W5.20.bin) but
> > still the problem persists.
> 
> We had lots of problems with our two 2948G-L3 boxes until we stopped
> using them as L2 devices, and simply ran them as hardware speed routers.
> 
> Thus our recommendation for these boxes is to remove anything L2, ie.
> bridging, IRB and similar stuff.
> 
> As pure L3 devices they have actually performed quite well - be we're
> now in the process of replacing them with 3550s.

Hmm.. so are you saying if you leave ports configured as switchports in the same
vlan that is ok L2 but when you introduce a vlan or set them to bridgegroups the
problems begin?

If so then thats an acceptable workaround..

Steve