GBIC SX connection between Nortel Baystack 460 and Cisco 3500

[ruster]

Trying to figure out how to get a Nortel Baystack 460 to connect to a Cisco Catalyst 3500 via a SX GBIC. Can't seem to get the Cisco to link. Anyone with any experience on this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ruster.

 

[byteya]

Are you trunking traffic?

(on the cisco 35xx):
switchport trunk encap dot1q

I think it may default to isl which the Baystack can't figure out.



*J*

 

[ruster]

Hey byteya,

Thanks for the suggestion, but I figured it out. It appears that Cisco and Nortel use a different standard for link negotiation. What you need to do is to disable link negotiation on the Cisco edge Gig port, and it works.