[f-nsp] Help with Stacking FESX448-Prem

[Joseph Jackson]

Eric,
Yes you will need to create trunk ports that interconnect the switches to tag the vlan traffic.  Also you will need to create routed virtual interfaces for each vlan if you want the vlans to be able to communicate with each other.

Here is some examples of VLAN tagging and trunking ports to increase bandwidth.

Trunk the ports into a bundle

trunk ethe 33 to 34   <--- needs to be applied to both switches - creates a  bundle of ports)

vlan 2  name PUBLIC by port
 tagged ethe 33 to 48
 untagged ethe 27 to 32
 router-interface ve 2

interface ve 2
port-name PUBLIC
ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 (whatever your subnets are)
ip ospf area 0

From: foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Eric Chen
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 1:03 PM
To: foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] Help with Stacking FESX448-Prem

Sorry to clarify - #2 is assigning 2 IP to same port. Understand can assign 2 different IPs to 2 dif interfaces

Thank you,
Eric

From: Eric Chen [mailto:eric at fusionity.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 2:00 AM
To: 'foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net'
Subject: Help with Stacking FESX448-Prem

All,

A few questions


1)      Does anyone have a quick guide on stacking 2 of these?

On Switch A we have 2 VLAN. One is VLAN 2 - for public (ports 1-24) and one is VLAN 3 - for private (ports 25-48). Uplink to distribution switches are ports 1 and 2.
On Switch B we have 2 VLAN. One is VLAN 2 - for public (ports 1-5) and one is VLAN 3 - for private (ports 6-48)

Port 3 on Switch A is connected to Port 3 on Switch B (both are on VLAN 2). This works fine. The ports are not tagged and it's  simply routing back to the public network.

The issue now is we want to connect the 2 VLAN 3's so that


a)      The IPs follow each other so they're not conflicting (IP follow?)

b)      The 2 VLAN can talk to each other.

Our understanding is that we would "TAG" the port on both switches (i.e. port 48 on both) and this way VLAN 3 on switch B can talk to VLAN 3 on switch A. Can someone help walk us through the exact configuration?  Also, what if we want to bind or trunk ports 44-48 for more throughput)

2) The other issue is the switches currently both have public IPs. Is there a way to assign the switch both a public AND a private IP?

3) Lastly on Switch A VLAN 2 how do we assign the IPs such that VLAN 2 on Switch B does not end up taking the same IPs? Do we bind different ranges? (not sure how that's done) since it seems that adding an IP address to an interface will only assign 1 IP? How do we either make sure that a finite range is assigned to each switch or add a POOL to the entire combined VLAN 2 on both switches

Thank you all for the help in advance.

Best,
Eric
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