gig ports on SuperII (WS-X4013) uplink to another switch

btmbmonitor · ‎02-18-2009

I'm desperately trying to get the gigabit ports on the supervisor II+ card on in one 4506 to talk to another identical switch using these as ISLs.

They have 1000sx GBICS installed and fibre between them, each port is configured as a trunk and is enabled, full duplex, 1000 yet the port is always down (hw and sw).

I have tried crossing tx & rx just in case but still no luck.

i have the follwing in each ports config:

switchport encapsulation trunk isl

switchport mode trunk

these ports are 1000 full only so i can't set auto neg

I'm missing something simple i guess but has anyones done this, can it work?

Can someone share working port settings perhaps?

glen.grant · ‎02-18-2009

Should work they are just uplinks. We use it all the time. Does it recognize the gbics ok ? Are they cisco gbics? There gear is fussy on what gbics get used and aftermarket ones a lot of times do not work.

btmbmonitor · ‎02-18-2009

they are definately Cisco GBICS, originals arrived to me this morning.

btmbmonitor · ‎02-18-2009

when i do a show inv raw i can see the gbics as

NAME: "Linecard(slot 1)", DESCR: "Supervisor II+ with 2 1000BaseX GBIC ports"

PID: WS-X4013+ , VID: V01 , SN: JAE084501SH

NAME: "Port Container 1/1", DESCR: "Port Container"

PID: , VID: , SN:

NAME: "GigabitEthernet1/1", DESCR: "1000BaseSX"

PID: Unspecified , VID: , SN: 0201260133404010

NAME: "Port Container 1/2", DESCR: "Port Container"

PID: , VID: , SN:

NAME: "GigabitEthernet1/2", DESCR: "1000BaseSX"

PID: Unspecified , VID: , SN: 0202270747489746

Mohamad Qayoom · ‎02-18-2009

Can you try to connect one of the 4506 to any other switch? Can you please provide "sh int statu" from one of the 4506 switches?

btmbmonitor · ‎02-18-2009

ssukcoresw01#show int gig1/1 status

Port Name Status Vlan Duplex Speed Type

Gi1/1 ISL ssukcoresw03 notconnect 1 full 1000 1000BaseSX

ssukcoresw01#show int gig1/2 status

Port Name Status Vlan Duplex Speed Type

Gi1/2 notconnect 1 full 1000 1000BaseSX

I have no other switches with gigabit gbic interfaces to try, only these 4506's for our PDU core network.

Leo Laohoo · ‎02-18-2009

Have you tried putting the GBIC's in some other switches? Have you tried moving the GBICs into differerent ports of the 4500?

I'm trying to determine if one of the GBICs is faulty or one of the port could be faulty.

btmbmonitor · ‎02-18-2009

I do have both ports connected from switch 1 to switch 3 and neither work though.

But no, i've not tried, i can try this tomorrow when i'm back in work.

Mohamad Qayoom · ‎02-18-2009

Can you do a loopback test to see if the ports come up?