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Cisco 2970 strange traffic problem - stumped cisco support Joe 02-10-05
Posted by Joe on February 10, 2005, 12:19 pm
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I have a mid sized network, several office locations are wireless using
alvarion wireless gear.  All wireless gear is setup for auto on the
ethernet ports.  I just put in a new cisco 2970 switch.  Once I did
this, all wireless locations could no longer access the internet,
e-mail, or any other type of traffic except ICMP.  I can ping
everywhere, all across our network, wireless locations and all.  It
seems as if the switch is blocking IP ports for some reason.  I didn't
alter the setup of the switches, out of the box we have this problem.
I tried changing all the ethernet ports to dynamic desirable, tried
turning off a lot of the advanced features of this switch, and no luck.
 Has anyone else had this problem.  We have two, and they both seem to
be doing the same thing.  Cisco support was not very helpful.  I'm sure
its got to be some duplex thing maybe, or some other feature in the
switch thats not working as it should, or is working as it should and
is just something we should not be using.  Any ideas?

Thanks
joe



Posted by on February 10, 2005, 2:46 pm
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what did the wireless gear connect to before you installed the Cisco
2950 ?



Posted by BradReeseCom on February 10, 2005, 3:06 pm
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Hi Joe,

This is not a new problem.

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November 22nd, 2004

Since we have added a new Catalyst 2970 for our servers non Cisco
clients (like Intel High Rate Wireless LAN Mini-PCI Adapter with Modem
II - IBM Thinkpad T30/T40) connected to AP350 (VXware 12.5) can not see
any host attached to the new switch.

Even we can ping the management IP address of the switch it's not
possible to see any host.

Before the AP was connected to a Catalyst 2950 and everything was fine.

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No resolution to the problem was forthcoming.

Sincerely,

Brad Reese
BradReese.Com Cisco Repair Worldwide
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Posted by Ben on February 11, 2005, 1:34 am
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BradReeseCom wrote:

Hi Joe,

A series of steps I would take...

1) Does the port on the switch go to line protocol up when you connect a
wireless unit?

2) If so, what speed and duplex does the port show was 'negotiated'?

3) Does this match up with what the wireless gear reports?

4) Do you get any kind of errors on the switch port after the wireless
gear has been trying to send frames for a while?

5) Turn off autonegotiation and hardset speed and duplex on both ends.
Does this help?

6) Does the switch correctly understand the mac-address of the wireless
gear? (show mac-address-table)

7) show spanning-tree brief - are the ports blocking or forwarding or
some other state? You may have a bridging loop.

8) If it's really a stumper, I would be tempted to set up a test
environment with two of the devices trying to talk through the switch,
and a SPAN port connected to a box running ethereal collecting frames
from both. Then try a number of different debugs (interface,
ethernet-interface, arp etc) on the switch as you try to send frames
across it. I would be trying to isolate the problem further, i.e. to
layer 2, layer 3, arp problem etc.



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