[f-nsp] ServerIron XL & Cisco connection issues

[Nathan]

Guys,

 

Just wondering if someone can help here... I've been trying to get this
sorted for a few days with no joy... I have an older ServerIron XL connected
to a cisco catalyst switch and for some reason it is just not connecting at
all and all MAC / ARP tables are empty. I have tried the following:

 

ServerIron XL:

 

1.       Hard coding the speeds to all combinations possible

2.       Trunking the switchport and leaving it untrunked

3.       Adding a static MAC address

4.       Changing the default vlan to 10 (same as cisco switch)

5.       Tagging & untagging the port

6.       Changing the port to vlan 10

7.       Changing the port to vlan 1 (in conjunction with the cisco switch)

8.       Connected via xover and straight through cat 5

 

Cisco Switch:

 

1.       Setting switchport mode to trunking, access and multi (all VLAN's
on the switch)

2.       Changing encapsulation to dot1q

3.       Switching to the default management vlan

 

>From what I can see, the physical connection is fine, however, there is
nothing happening at layer 2 and above???

 

Really keen to get some ideas here as I've been tearing my hair out to make
this work. Interestingly, when I connected this to a firewall / switch it
worked fine so it looks like it's the combination of the cisco switch /
vlan's??

 

Config is below:

 

FastEthernet1 is up

  Hardware is FastEthernet, address is 00e0.520b.f67c (bia 00e0.520b.f67c)

  Configured speed auto, actual 100Mbit, configured duplex fdx, actual fdx

  Member of L2 VLAN ID 10, port is untagged, port state is FORWARDING

  STP configured to ON, priority is normal, flow control enabled

  mirror disabled, monitor disabled

  Member of active trunk ports 1-2, primary port

  Member of configured trunk ports 1-2, primary port

  No port name

  5 minute input rate: 3008 bits/sec, 5 packets/sec, 0.00% utilization

  5 minute output rate: 395600 bits/sec, 772 packets/sec, 0.51% utilization

  4064 packets input, 870332 bytes, 0 no buffer

  Received 4417 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants

  0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 ignored

  7934 multicast

  0 packets output, 75211072 bytes, 0 underruns

  0 output errors, 0 collisions

ServerIron(config)#

 

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