Hi All,

I am new to Cisco and have setup a small lab as per CBTNuggets. Everything was going well until I introduced a second switch to create a trunk. Now I cannot ping between my two switches. Both show operational mode as down:

SWITCH1#show interfaces f0/12 switchport

Name: Fa0/12

Switchport: Enabled

Administrative Mode: trunk

Operational Mode: down

Administrative Trunking Encapsulation: dot1q

Negotiation of Trunking: On

Access Mode VLAN: 1 (default)

Trunking Native Mode VLAN: 1 (default)

Voice VLAN: none

Administrative private-vlan host-association: none

Administrative private-vlan mapping: none

Administrative private-vlan trunk native VLAN: none

Administrative private-vlan trunk encapsulation: dot1q

Administrative private-vlan trunk normal VLANs: none

Administrative private-vlan trunk private VLANs: none

Operational private-vlan: none

Trunking VLANs Enabled: 1

Pruning VLANs Enabled: 2-1001

Capture Mode Disabled

Capture VLANs Allowed: ALL

Protected: false

Appliance trust: none

And There doesn't seem to be any vlans enabled to trunk. See Below

SWITCH1#show interface f0/12 trunk

Port        Mode         Encapsulation  Status        Native vlan

Fa0/12      on           802.1q         not-trunking  1

Port      Vlans allowed on trunk

Fa0/12      none

Port        Vlans allowed and active in management domain

Fa0/12      none

Port        Vlans in spanning tree forwarding state and not pruned

Fa0/12      none

I have tried to allow all vlans or vlan 1 specifically and the output of the above doesn't seem to change.

I am wondering if there is something in the config-register that is preventing trunking, but I don't really know enough yet!

The output of my second switch is identical to this one, the only difference is that I have it configured as a vtp client.

Hope someone can help.

Thanks.