No switchport

[RNF0528]

We have a Cisco 3550 and a port has been set to no switchport access. No sure why but the PC connected to that port is no longer wokring. Is there a command to turn switchport access mode back on. I tried Cisco`s site but all the commands i come up with dont work. Any help would be great. Thanks

Not working port below
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interface FastEthernet0/41
no switchport
no ip address
spanning-tree portfast
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Working port below
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interface FastEthernet0/39
switchport mode access
no ip address
duplex full
speed 100
spanning-tree portfast

 

[AJ1982]

What happens when u write in the configs from f0/39 into the f0/41 interface...

AJ

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Fatman Superstar (Andrew James)

CCNA

 

[RNF0528]

It says Command rejected: FA0/41 not a swiching port.

 

[AJ1982]

I assume you have tried the command "switchport" on its own?

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Fatman Superstar (Andrew James)

CCNA

 

[RNF0528]

No Just did it and i works. I tried everything in the world to do with switchport access, mode, vlan. Was thinking to far into it. Thanks for the help!!

 

[AJ1982]

No worries, now you have toggled the port, you should be able to mark it back as switchport access etc.

Ta

AJ

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Fatman Superstar (Andrew James)

CCNA

 

[RNF0528]

Yup just did and all is well, Thanks agian.

 

[globalchicken]

By default the interface on 3550s are L3 interfaces. AKA = no switchport..By using the command switchport, this enables L2 functionality...

 

[vipergg]

the ports are 2 ways either a switchport (layer 2) or a routed port (no switchport) layer 3 port which you use a ip address on .

 

[leedsit]

Hi,

come in halfway through this, but surley if you have a no switch port command on your Port, then its telling the switch this is a l3 interface and you need an Ip address configured on that port?????

Lee.

LEEroy
MCNE6,CCNP,CWNA,CCSA,Project+

 

[leedsit]

P.S it is very early in the morning and I may be a little confused.....

LEEroy
MCNE6,CCNP,CWNA,CCSA,Project+

 

[vipergg]

That is correct . There is really 2 different ways to do the same thing on a l2/3 switch , you can either put an address on a routed port or you can create a layer 3 SVI and put the address on that and then put a switchport in that vlan that you created with that sVI creation , it will do the same thing . If you do it this way this allows you the freedom to runn multiple vlans down one link (trunk) if desired , if that is a requirement . Really depends on what you are trying to do .