Juli, Turn off span-tree on the 3550 and see if the port goes into forwarding...if so the IBM is doing some type of bridging with spanning tree..
Larry Letterman Network Engineer Cisco Systems ----- Original Message ----- From: Juli Hato To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 10:06 PM Subject: Re: Help on Catalyst 3550 [7:66072] Hi larry and all first I'd like to thank you for your quick response. Hm..the router we have is IBM 2210 series. How to know that the router is configured and running STP. What bout I turn off the STP from the Catalyst 3550. What is blade center. Sorry for my silly questions. Thanks in advance Best Regardss, HATO >From: "Larry Letterman" >Reply-To: "Larry Letterman" >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Help on Catalyst 3550 [7:66072] >Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:49:47 GMT > >sounds like the router you have is a switch running spanning tree...if >thats >the case, then turn off span-tree on the IBM >device..is that device a Blade center server? > >Larry Letterman >Network Engineer >Cisco Systems > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Juli Hato > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 7:56 AM > Subject: Help on Catalyst 3550 [7:66072] > > > Hi all, > > I have a router IBM that has 2 ethernet ports. The IBM router connect to > Cisco Catalyst 3550 that is not configured. When the router IBM connect >to > the switch one of the ethernet port from the IBM router got block by the > Cisco Switch. All you have to know is that I need to ethernet ports from >the > IBM router active. How to counteract with this. Thank you in advance. > > Best Regards, > HATO > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=66118&t=66072 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
