Right i've applied the no shut to vlan 5 on the edge which I cannot ping the edge switch still:

nterface VLAN5

ip address 10.1.5.10 255.255.255.0

no ip directed-broadcast

no ip route-cache

shutdown

I can now ping all vlans!

any idea still on the switch ip?

Also if I try and ping any default gateway from the core I get this:

Switch#ping 10.1.2.254

Type escape sequence to abort.

Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 10.1.2.254, timeout is 2 seconds:

.....

Success rate is 0 percent (0/5)

Switch#

Hi HGAED,

You don't seem to have a default gateway applied to the 3524, so it gets packets from your PC in the 10.1.2.0/24 network but doesn't know where to send it back.

Give that switch a default gateway of 10.1.5.254 and the 3524 will know where to send the icmp reply.

ip default-gateway 10.1.5.254

HTH

Jonathan S

Thanks Jonathan,

I've now applied that command, the output:

Switch#

Switch#ping 10.1.5.254

Type escape sequence to abort.

Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 10.1.5.254, timeout is 2 seconds:

.....

Success rate is 0 percent (0/5)

Switch#

Ok at this point let's make sure it's not a L1 or L2 problem.

Do a show int gi0/2 on both switch to make sure they are both in an up/up state.

Jonathan S

3524:

Switch#show int gi0/2

GigabitEthernet0/2 is up, line protocol is up

  Hardware is Gigabit Ethernet, address is 0008.a391.d2da (bia 0008.a391.d2da)

  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec,

     reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255

  Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set

  Keepalive not set

  Auto-duplex (Full), 1000Mb/s, media type is CX_GIGASTACK

  output flow-control is off, input flow-control is off

  ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00

  GigaStack module(0.2) in GBIC slot. link1 is down, link2 is up

  Last input 00:00:11, output 00:00:00, output hang never

  Last clearing of "show interface" counters never

  Queueing strategy: fifo

  Output queue 0/40, 0 drops; input queue 0/75, 0 drops

  5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec

  5 minute output rate 3000 bits/sec, 4 packets/sec

     180 packets input, 18037 bytes, 0 no buffer

     Received 57 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles

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

     0 watchdog, 52 multicast, 0 pause input

     3558 packets output, 275150 bytes, 0 underruns

     0 output errors, 0 collisions, 1 interface resets

     0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred

     0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 0 pause output

     0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out

3550:

bmi-c3550-core#show int gi0/2

GigabitEthernet0/2 is up, line protocol is up (connected)

  Hardware is Gigabit Ethernet, address is 000f.34b3.949a (bia 000f.34b3.949a)

  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec,

     reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255

  Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set

  Keepalive set (10 sec)

  Full-duplex, 1000Mb/s, link type is auto, media type is CX Gigastack

  output flow-control is off, input flow-control is off

  ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00

  GigaStack module(0.2) in GBIC slot. link1 is up, link2 is down

  Last input 00:00:00, output 00:00:04, output hang never

  Last clearing of "show interface" counters never

  Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0

  Queueing strategy: fifo

  Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)

  5 minute input rate 4000 bits/sec, 7 packets/sec

  5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec

     46120 packets input, 3455979 bytes, 0 no buffer

     Received 44939 broadcasts (0 multicast)

     0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles

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

     0 watchdog, 43134 multicast, 0 pause input

     0 input packets with dribble condition detected

     2750 packets output, 308592 bytes, 0 underruns

     0 output errors, 0 collisions, 1 interface resets

     0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred

     0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 0 PAUSE output

     0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out

bmi-c3550-core#

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From my laptop with static IP 10.1.2.5 I can ping all vlan gateways, from core I can ping laptop fine.

From core I cannot ping 10.1.5.10 which is the VLAN5 and IP of edge switch

Thanks for helping, I'm more a ProCurve man!...

Issue "show interface trunk" on both switches, do you see your vlans on the trunk?

from 3550:

bmi-c3550-core#show interface trunk

Port        Mode         Encapsulation  Status        Native vlan

Gi0/2       on           802.1q         trunking      1

Port      Vlans allowed on trunk

Gi0/2       1-100

Port        Vlans allowed and active in management domain

Gi0/2       1-8,10

Port        Vlans in spanning tree forwarding state and not pruned

Gi0/2       1-8,10

bmi-c3550-core#

bmi-c3550-core#

from 3524:

When I plum the command into the 3524 I get this:

Switch#show interface trunk

                        ^

% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.

Switch#

OK, try this instead on the 3524  show int gi0/2 switchport

Done from 3524

Switch#show int gi0/2 switchport

Name: Gi0/2

Switchport: Enabled

Administrative mode: trunk

Operational Mode: trunk

Administrative Trunking Encapsulation: dot1q

Operational Trunking Encapsulation: dot1q

Negotiation of Trunking: Disabled

Access Mode VLAN: 0 ((Inactive))

Trunking Native Mode VLAN: 1 (default)

Trunking VLANs Enabled: 1-100,1002-1005

Trunking VLANs Active: 1-8,10

Pruning VLANs Enabled: 2-1001

Priority for untagged frames: 0

Override vlan tag priority: FALSE

Voice VLAN: none

Appliance trust: none

Switch#

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Interesting from 3524, I cannot ping any gateways or laptop, but the laptop is connected to the 3524 and can ping gateways

Try shutting down vlan 1 on the 3524, make sure vlan 5 is enabled and ping again

Getting somewhere now, I did have this:

interface VLAN5

ip address 10.1.5.10 255.255.255.0

no ip directed-broadcast

no ip route-cache

shutdown

ran the no shutdown command on int vlan 5 and its come alive now!

Looks like I can ping everything between switches.

Looking at both switch configs in the top post is there anything else I need todo or any recommended commands?

For the 3524,  I would say to assign the user ports to a vlan of your choice using the "switchport access vlan " and still shutdown the interface vlan1.