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Clarification on trunking on this 'cascaded' switch

news2010a
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Level 3

Imagine I have the following:

Switch1 (all ports on Vlan1)

fa0/10 ---connected to-----fa0/10Switch2

Switch2 (all ports on Vlan2)

If I want hosts from Vlan2 to communicate with switch1 Vlan1 hosts, I would need to do:

switch1

int fa0/10

switchport mode trunk

switchport allowed vlan 2

and do the same on switch2.

Is that correct?

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John Blakley
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That's correct, but you'd need to create a vlan 2 on the vlan 1 switch and vice versa. The vlan's need to match on both switches. Then configure your int fa0/10 like your example.

You *may* need to change your line to allow vlan 1 also (but it's native by default, so you may not):

switchport allowed vlan add 1,2

HTH,

John

HTH, John *** Please rate all useful posts ***

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John Blakley
VIP Alumni
VIP Alumni

That's correct, but you'd need to create a vlan 2 on the vlan 1 switch and vice versa. The vlan's need to match on both switches. Then configure your int fa0/10 like your example.

You *may* need to change your line to allow vlan 1 also (but it's native by default, so you may not):

switchport allowed vlan add 1,2

HTH,

John

HTH, John *** Please rate all useful posts ***

Leo Laohoo
Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame

John's right. Aside from creating the VLAN 2 SVI, if your switch is the 2900/3500, 2950/3550, X4013+, you need to create VLAN 2 on the VLAN database.

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