3COM - CISCO interoperability

2001-03-13 Thread freddy moreno
do any of you have experience connecting a 3com Corebuilder 9000 to a Cisco 6506 using Gig Trunking? any gotchas, special things that need to be done. please let me know than you thank you very much _ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.grou

Re: 3COM - CISCO interoperability

2001-03-13 Thread Rob Fielding
-Rob Fielding - Original Message - From: "freddy moreno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: groupstudy.cisco To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 1:52 PM Subject: 3COM - CISCO interoperability > do any of you have experience connecting a 3com Corebu

Re: 3COM - CISCO interoperability

2001-03-13 Thread freddy moreno
what I did is : configured port 1/1 on the 6506 as a trunk DOT1Q VTP Domain test Server and configured the 3com port 3.1 with the DOT1Q trunking as well. I was getting traffic running from the 3com but the cisco was not receiving until I ran the command set port 1/1 nonegotiate and the l

Re: 3COM - CISCO interoperability

2001-03-13 Thread Erick B.
Freddy, VTP is Cisco propiertary and the 3Com will not understand it. It might come up but it won't learn the VLANs. 3Com does standard 802.1q which is one spanning tree instance. I'm not sure offhand if they have their own method of doing spanning tree per VLAN like Cisco and others do. If you

Re: 3COM - CISCO interoperability

2001-03-13 Thread Erick B.
One more thing, Frank, look at seeing if these devices support IEEE 802.3ad which is a Link Aggregation standard. It's recent and I haven't checked to see if it's supported on the gear you mentioned or not. --- "Erick B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Freddy, > > VTP is Cisco propiertary and the