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Cisco 2811 with HWIC-4ESW Houston SBC 10-02-07
Posted by Houston SBC on October 2, 2007, 4:45 pm
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I have a Cisco 2811 running IOS adventerprisek9-mz.12.4-15.T and a HWIC-4ESW
installed.

Does anyone have the foggiest idea of how to get fa0/0 to share a vlan with
fa0/0/0-3 (the ports on the HWIC-4ESW).

Any config files, urls, etc would be greatly appreciated.

Appendix D of the Cisco Field Manual: Catalyst Sw. Config covers "Extending
VLANs within Layer 3 switches" and seems to be close but it shows a 802.1Q
trunk line from the layer3 device to the layer 2 device--How's it handled
when it is in the same box?

TIA

Doug
Dougs@(8888nospam!!!!)Net-fix.com




Posted by response3 on October 3, 2007, 8:24 pm
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wrote:
> I have a Cisco 2811 running IOS adventerprisek9-mz.12.4-15.T and a HWIC-4ESW
> installed.
>
> Does anyone have the foggiest idea of how to get fa0/0 to share a vlan with
> fa0/0/0-3 (the ports on the HWIC-4ESW).
>
> Any config files, urls, etc would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Appendix D of the Cisco Field Manual: Catalyst Sw. Config covers "Extending
> VLANs within Layer 3 switches" and seems to be close but it shows a 802.1Q
> trunk line from the layer3 device to the layer 2 device--How's it handled
> when it is in the same box?
>
> TIA
>
> Doug
> Dougs@(8888nospam!!!!)Net-fix.com

Can't do it, since the built-in port is layer 3 only, and is not
capable of running in layer 2 mode. It can only route traffic for
vlan's but not act as an access port to a vlan.


Posted by Mike Dorn on October 4, 2007, 12:31 am
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Houston SBC wrote:

> I have a Cisco 2811 running IOS adventerprisek9-mz.12.4-15.T and a HWIC-4ESW
> installed.
>
> Does anyone have the foggiest idea of how to get fa0/0 to share a vlan with
> fa0/0/0-3 (the ports on the HWIC-4ESW).
>
> Any config files, urls, etc would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Appendix D of the Cisco Field Manual: Catalyst Sw. Config covers "Extending
> VLANs within Layer 3 switches" and seems to be close but it shows a 802.1Q
> trunk line from the layer3 device to the layer 2 device--How's it handled
> when it is in the same box?
>
> TIA
>
> Doug
> Dougs@(8888nospam!!!!)Net-fix.com
>
>
>
Actually, I did this just yesterday with a 2811 and the 9-port switch module. I
eventually tore it back down again because it ate up cpu and it wasn't all that
essential for me to have the other interface.

What you have to do is turn on bridging. Then you create a bridge virtual
interface for the router to use instead of the vlan interface that connects to
the switch module. Join both the vlan interface from the switch and the
physical interface from the ouside of the router into the bridge group, and
they're together.

bridge irb
int fa0/0
no ip address
bridge-group 1
int bvi 1
ip address x.x.x.x y.y.y.y
int vlan 3
bridge-group 1
int fa0/0/2
switchport access vlan 3
bridge 1 protocol ieee
bridge 1 route ip

What I did was similar, except that I was making my fa0/0 into a trunk to reach
external switches, so each dot1q subinterface under it was linked to a separate
bridge group. The 9-port module was then configured with one vlan for data and
the other for voice to support ip phones. When I had it working, however, it
chewed up 10-30% cpu with almost no traffic load. Shut down fa0/0, got rid of
the bvi's and made the 9th port on the module into a trunk instead, and cpu ran
about 1-2%, so that's where I'm leaving it. My guess would be that the bvi's
are implemented in software, so don't optimize as well. Of course, your
situation may require you to use the other ports, so go ahead & try it.

I haven't messed with bridging on routers all that much, so it's also possible
that I missed something--the cpu hit may be avoided by application of slightly
cleverer code...


Posted by Houston SBC on October 4, 2007, 6:37 am
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First, thanks for the info. Cisco docs are somewhat lacking in certain
areas.
It is always nice to see someone else going where no one else has gone
before.

Doug



> Houston SBC wrote:
>
>> I have a Cisco 2811 running IOS adventerprisek9-mz.12.4-15.T and a
>> HWIC-4ESW installed.
>>
>> Does anyone have the foggiest idea of how to get fa0/0 to share a vlan
>> with fa0/0/0-3 (the ports on the HWIC-4ESW).
>>
>> Any config files, urls, etc would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Appendix D of the Cisco Field Manual: Catalyst Sw. Config covers
>> "Extending VLANs within Layer 3 switches" and seems to be close but it
>> shows a 802.1Q trunk line from the layer3 device to the layer 2
>> device--How's it handled when it is in the same box?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Doug
>> Dougs@(8888nospam!!!!)Net-fix.com
>>
>>
>>
> Actually, I did this just yesterday with a 2811 and the 9-port switch
> module. I eventually tore it back down again because it ate up cpu and it
> wasn't all that essential for me to have the other interface.
>
> What you have to do is turn on bridging. Then you create a bridge virtual
> interface for the router to use instead of the vlan interface that
> connects to the switch module. Join both the vlan interface from the
> switch and the physical interface from the ouside of the router into the
> bridge group, and they're together.
>
> bridge irb
> int fa0/0
> no ip address
> bridge-group 1
> int bvi 1
> ip address x.x.x.x y.y.y.y
> int vlan 3
> bridge-group 1
> int fa0/0/2
> switchport access vlan 3
> bridge 1 protocol ieee
> bridge 1 route ip
>
> What I did was similar, except that I was making my fa0/0 into a trunk to
> reach external switches, so each dot1q subinterface under it was linked to
> a separate bridge group. The 9-port module was then configured with one
> vlan for data and the other for voice to support ip phones. When I had it
> working, however, it chewed up 10-30% cpu with almost no traffic load.
> Shut down fa0/0, got rid of the bvi's and made the 9th port on the module
> into a trunk instead, and cpu ran about 1-2%, so that's where I'm leaving
> it. My guess would be that the bvi's are implemented in software, so
> don't optimize as well. Of course, your situation may require you to use
> the other ports, so go ahead & try it.
>
> I haven't messed with bridging on routers all that much, so it's also
> possible that I missed something--the cpu hit may be avoided by
> application of slightly cleverer code...
>



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