[f-nsp] ServerIron XL & Cisco connection issues

[Youssef Ghorbal]

Hello,

 When you say "MAC/ARP tables are empty" you're talking about the
Serveriron one's ?
 Is the Serveriron is used in L2 ou L3 configuration ?
 Did you create a ve interface in the same subnent of the internal IP
address of the Serveriron ?

Best Regards,
Youssef Ghorbal
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On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Nathan <nnogic at ncl.com.au> wrote:
> 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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>
>
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