09-28-2010 12:18 PM
Hi all,
a customer purchased a ESW-520-24p to be used in a VoIP project. Today we had difficulties connecting it to a Catalyst 3650G switch; We've tried setting the port to trunk, general, customer and access and changed all sorts of VLAN settings on the 3560G switch to no avail: the switches just wont interconnect. While sniffing we saw that ARP requests are even not answered, so something is wrong on a low level, probably with VLAN-ing.
Anyone any idea if these switches should be able to be interconnected and if yes, what needs to be done to do so?
Secondly; voice will be on seperate VLAN and the client will use SPA942 phones, which have an internal switch that allows to connect a PC to it. I've used this phoned successfully with Catalyst Express switches and I didn't have to do anything for VLAN-ing, this worked "out of the box". Can anyone confirm that these phones work with the Small Business switches as well?
Thx!!
Bart
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10-10-2010 09:31 PM
Hi Bart,
I quickly set up the simulation. It took me longer to write this than actually do the work.
I grabbed my handy Cisco 3560 catalyst switch. I plugged FastEthernet port 23 plugged into my UC520. My Uc520 is my voice system and DHCP server.
I have FastEthernet port 24 plugged from my Cisco 3560 into my ESW540-24P. On port 3 of my ESW540-24P switch I plugged a SPA962 phone..
I guess my simulation is close enough to your hardware. Configuration should be identical I would guess.
Here is the configuration of my Cisco 3560 switch;
interface FastEthernet0/23
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport autostate exclude
switchport mode trunk
!
interface FastEthernet0/24
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport autostate exclude
switchport mode trunk
interface Vlan1
ip address 192.168.10.3 255.255.255.0
!
interface Vlan100 (VLAN100 is terminated on my UC520 and has the DHCP scope)
no ip address
!
interface Vlan200
no ip address
!
Check that spanning tree isn't blocking any uplink ports with the command show spanning-tree. I ask you to try this as i must admit that that uplink to my UC520 was in a BLK state on the default VLAN. THIS I HAD TO FIX .
I plugged my SPA962 phone onto my ESW switch, it powered up.
Since VLAN 100 is my voice VLAN, I had to manually adjusted what VLAN the SPA phone will reside in. Otherwise it will try to pick up a IP address from the default VLAN.
My phone received a IP address from my VLAN 100 a 10.1.1.X address.
Luckily the ESW520 has a pretty good GUI , whereby you can add a new vlan and trunk it to all ports.
Here is an example of how I added vlan 200 to the ESW switch and started to add the switch ports as Tagged ports. I have to do this to all ports where you need the VLAN.
I then as seen below add my new VLAN as a Tagged port to all switch ports.
You can see from my screen shot below that I was adding VLAN 200 to interface G2 as a tagged interface.
REMEMBER TO SAVE YOUR CONFIGURATIONS ON BOTH THE 3560 and the ESW520
hope this helps
regards Dave
10-10-2010 09:31 PM
Hi Bart,
I quickly set up the simulation. It took me longer to write this than actually do the work.
I grabbed my handy Cisco 3560 catalyst switch. I plugged FastEthernet port 23 plugged into my UC520. My Uc520 is my voice system and DHCP server.
I have FastEthernet port 24 plugged from my Cisco 3560 into my ESW540-24P. On port 3 of my ESW540-24P switch I plugged a SPA962 phone..
I guess my simulation is close enough to your hardware. Configuration should be identical I would guess.
Here is the configuration of my Cisco 3560 switch;
interface FastEthernet0/23
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport autostate exclude
switchport mode trunk
!
interface FastEthernet0/24
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport autostate exclude
switchport mode trunk
interface Vlan1
ip address 192.168.10.3 255.255.255.0
!
interface Vlan100 (VLAN100 is terminated on my UC520 and has the DHCP scope)
no ip address
!
interface Vlan200
no ip address
!
Check that spanning tree isn't blocking any uplink ports with the command show spanning-tree. I ask you to try this as i must admit that that uplink to my UC520 was in a BLK state on the default VLAN. THIS I HAD TO FIX .
I plugged my SPA962 phone onto my ESW switch, it powered up.
Since VLAN 100 is my voice VLAN, I had to manually adjusted what VLAN the SPA phone will reside in. Otherwise it will try to pick up a IP address from the default VLAN.
My phone received a IP address from my VLAN 100 a 10.1.1.X address.
Luckily the ESW520 has a pretty good GUI , whereby you can add a new vlan and trunk it to all ports.
Here is an example of how I added vlan 200 to the ESW switch and started to add the switch ports as Tagged ports. I have to do this to all ports where you need the VLAN.
I then as seen below add my new VLAN as a Tagged port to all switch ports.
You can see from my screen shot below that I was adding VLAN 200 to interface G2 as a tagged interface.
REMEMBER TO SAVE YOUR CONFIGURATIONS ON BOTH THE 3560 and the ESW520
hope this helps
regards Dave
10-11-2010 12:55 AM
David,
awesome thx!
While applying your solution I noticed that the data network on the 3560 was configured by someone else to be located on VLAN 10, instead of VLAN 1 (which was in my head). After adjusting that and adding this VLAN to the trunk ports, things were all right.
Thx again for your efforts!!!
B.
10-11-2010 07:37 AM
Hi B.
Pleasure. .Glad my posting acted to get you thinking about what you were seeing on the Cisco 3560.
regards Dave
01-16-2012 07:09 AM
Hello David,
I'm wanting to have port "g12" on my ESW-520 to be a trunk port, on which need to have VLANs 1, 2 and 100 flowing through it.
First of all, a question besides this: how do I remotely check (GUI or CLI) if that port is not connected?
Then, back to my quest...
The VLANs are already setup.
I went to "Port to VLAN" and went through every VLAN ID, editing g12 interface and selecting "Tagged" for each VLAN.
Then I went to "VLAN to Port" and I saw that g12 already was defined as "Trunk" and when clicking on the drop-down list I was seeing 1U-2T-100T...
Should this be sufficient?
Thanks and kind regards,
F.
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