01-13-2009 11:25 PM
I am having a nightmare trying to connect my shiny new ASA 5510 to an old Cat 3550 switch. The ASA port shows up/up but receives no packets at all. As soon as I put the cable back in to the old PIX515E it works straight away, making me believe this is a bug between the 5510 and the 3550. I have tried countless combinations of speed/duplex, and I've upgraded both the switch software and ASA software to latest levels. I have even tried a different ASA. The only way I can get the link between the ASA and the switch to come up is to place a "Linksys residential cable router with 4-port switch" in between!!! Clearly the 5510 and 3550 do not like negotiating a link for whatever reason.
Any help will be massively appreciated.
Thanks, Mark
01-14-2009 02:40 AM
Mark,
I run several ASA's into 3550/3560/3548/3750 switches and have had no issues. I would do the following:-
1) Check switch port config speed/duplex
2) Set interface to auto speed/duplex
3) Make sure you are not using an x-over cable
HTH>
01-14-2009 02:42 AM
Thanks for your reply. As mentioned, I have tried countless combinations of speed/duplex and I am definitely not using x-over cable :(
What software level is your ASA/3550 on? ...and are your ASAs the 5510 variety?
01-14-2009 02:48 AM
I have 5510'2/5520'2 & 5540's
Code in the ASA are a mixture of 7.0(4). 7.2.2 and 8.0(4)
my 3550's are all on 12.2(25)
Post the switch and asa config (sanitised)
01-14-2009 02:52 AM
I can't do full config for switch as I don't own that end, but I was given the interface config:
interface FastEthernet0/47
switchport access vlan 14
switchport mode access
speed 100
duplex full
no snmp trap link-status
spanning-tree portfast
..and the ASA port config is as follows:
interface Ethernet0/3
description Corporate Network Link
speed 100
duplex full
nameif corporate
security-level 5
ip address x.x.x.x 255.255.255.192
The ASA is a 5510 running 7.2(4) and the switch is a WS-C3550-48-SMI running 12.2(44)SE3.
01-14-2009 04:36 AM
Mmm nothing here to suggest any config issues - however just for giggles I would set the switch port and asa to "auto" on the speed/duplex to see if that fixes the issue. Then I would change cables!
HTH>
01-14-2009 04:40 AM
Yeah did that too, and the ASA end comes up saying "Half/100" !!
Cable is perfectly fine to the PIX515E so it's not a cable problem.
Thanks for your help anyway.
01-14-2009 04:44 AM
If they can;t negotiate the duplex - this means the "frame link pulse" is not 100% OR you have mdix on the switch port, which sometimes breaks the neogtiation with static speed.duplex settings.
Can you have the owner of the switch remove mdix on the switch port and test again?
01-15-2009 12:16 AM
Hi, is mdix a config setting? If it is, I can't find that setting in any command reference. Can you advise? Thanks for all your help so far.
01-15-2009 02:28 AM
command to enable is:-
mdix auto
to disbale
no mdix auto
HTH>
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