Posted this in switches but I'm not sure it was in the right section
Sorry if this questions been asked before but I'm new, and excuse my total ignorance but I've only recently come into the world of switches and know a TINY bit more than everyone else so it's been thrown in my lap.
Right:-
Got a layer 3 4908G-L3 catalyst jobby.
It's got 8 GBIC's which I want to plug our existing 3500's into, to form a gig speed backbone......
I plug them in and nothing happens, ie I can't ping the switch on the other side of the router/switch.
It says that the interfaces are up and working, and I enabled/disabled IP routing to no effect.
I've tried Etherchannels, Bridging groups and all sorts (descriptions off net, so may not be doing it right)
Being an old switch I assigned static IP addresses to the ports so I could ping them and test all the bits were working - all good.....but I know nothing about routing.
Someone suggested the way to do it was a bridging group.
I would like to know
a) what's the best way to get all the switches talking to each other without having to split everything into different subnets and stuff.
b) how do I achieve it?
Beer for anyone that can help
ta
Sorry if this questions been asked before but I'm new, and excuse my total ignorance but I've only recently come into the world of switches and know a TINY bit more than everyone else so it's been thrown in my lap.
Right:-
Got a layer 3 4908G-L3 catalyst jobby.
It's got 8 GBIC's which I want to plug our existing 3500's into, to form a gig speed backbone......
I plug them in and nothing happens, ie I can't ping the switch on the other side of the router/switch.
It says that the interfaces are up and working, and I enabled/disabled IP routing to no effect.
I've tried Etherchannels, Bridging groups and all sorts (descriptions off net, so may not be doing it right)
Being an old switch I assigned static IP addresses to the ports so I could ping them and test all the bits were working - all good.....but I know nothing about routing.
Someone suggested the way to do it was a bridging group.
I would like to know
a) what's the best way to get all the switches talking to each other without having to split everything into different subnets and stuff.
b) how do I achieve it?
Beer for anyone that can help
ta
