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[buraglio]

HAs anyone gotten a trunk to work between a 3com (either a 3300xm or a Switch 630) and a Cisco 2924xl?
What did it entail? what standard was used? etc...etc...
I'm having some troubles with it, I actually suspect it's the Cisco.

 

[proctorcw]

Depends what you mean. "Trunk" is the most overused/misused word in this business. In terms of the IEEE, 802.1Q(VLAN tagging) defines any link carrying tagged frames as a trunk. 3COM refers to 802.3AD (Link Aggregation) as a trunk. Cisco refers to ISL links between switches as a trunk. Which trunk do you mean?

 

[Guest_imported]

I think he means no VLAN Trunk. I think he means something like Etherchannel (up to 4 Fast Ethernet Links between Cisco & 3Com Switches). It´s called trunk at 3Com components.

 

[zelig]

We have successfully connected Cisco catalyst 3524XL switches to 3Com SuperStack 3300 via a 200 Mb/s trunk/portchannel. Everything is working fine!

 

[wybnormal]

Zelig- no fair being a tease!!!! Why dont you be nice and share the "how to" for us

MikeS "Diplomacy; the art of saying 'nice doggie' till you can find a rock" Wynn Catlin

 

[zelig]

We simply enable the port group (port group NUMBER on the fastethernet interfaces) on the two catalyst 3524XL ports, and the port trunk (feature->trunk->addport from the CLI) on the two superstack 3300 ports... Nothing more. It seems that the two implementations are compatible.