Setup of a trunk

[anthonymeluso]

We have some nortel 470 switches that will soon be replaced with procurve swithces. In the meantime I'm interested in configuring one of our server with a teamed nic. I tired looking all over the net for clear instructions on configuring the nortel switch's ports as a trunk. I keep seeing things about vlans. I just need a simple how to on how to configure ports as a trunk.

I have access to both device manager and through telnet.

Thanks in advance!

 

[VinceWhirlwind]

If you don't have multiple VLANs configured on your 470 switch, then all ports are presumably in the default VLAN1.

To create a trunk, you need to first configure your desired VLAN on the desired ports and then enable an MLT containing those ports.

Assuming VLAN 1 & ports 2-3:

Assigning a VLAN is a 3-stage process:
vlan ports 2-3 tagging unTagAll
vlan members 1 2-3
vlan ports 2-3 pvid 1
[Not necessarily in this order - can't remember the exact order you have to do them in]

Creating a trunk:
mlt 1 name "Server 1" enable member 2-3

 

[VinceWhirlwind]

Mind you, I haven't seen a 470 since about last century, so the above syntaxes may be slightly out.

 

[anthonymeluso]

This explains why we are upgrading. But I will still like to try it out just as an experiment.

Thanks again!

 

[anthonymeluso]

Ok one final question. For PortType should I choose Access or Trunk? If I set it to trunk the ports get tagged. Is this what I want?

Thanks!

 

[anthonyanderberg]

This industry is famous for using the same term for more than one situation.

In this context typically "access" means "single VLAN" and "Trunk" refers to "VLAN Tagged Trunk", in this case you'll want "access" unless your server has multiple IP addresses and is set to use multiple VLANs.

 

[anthonymeluso]

Thanks for your help!!

 

[VinceWhirlwind]

Yes, my post showed only one of your options.

"untagall" with one VLAN on it basically means "access".
"untagpvidonly" or "tagall" means "trunk".

You could do it either way as your server almost certainly supports dot1q - in that case the server would have to be configured to "tag" as well.