Connecting 3750E interfaces for IP management

[mrbenconrad]

Hello,

I'm setting up several 3750E's as access switches and I'm wondering what is the best way to connect these switches to the OOB network for managability. I'm concerned that if I lose a switch in the stack that I won't be able to manage the stack at all (via SSH). I know that I can setup a ip address on my OOB VLAN on the stack but how should I physically connect the 3750E's interfaces to the rest of the network? If I uplink GigabitEthernet1/0/1 to the OOB network should I also uplink GigabitEthernet2/0/1 as well? STP should take care of the links, right?

thanks,

Ben

[Edison Ortiz]

You can eliminate STP on this connection (and I actually recommend doing so) by configuring the OOB switchport as a routed port.

Example,

interface GigabitEthernet1/0/1

no switchport

ip address x.x.x.x y.y.y.y

[mrbenconrad]

thx.

If I want physically redundancy to each switch in the stack I'll need to setup a routed port (and IP) on one interface on each switch, correct?

Ben

[Edison Ortiz · Accepted solution]

Yes