problems connecting a Cisco 3550 switch to a Nortel BPS2000

Nov 05, 2006 2 Replies

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bas.bruggeman 19 years ago

Hello,

I've connected a Cisco 3550 switch to an Nortel BSP2000 via a copper

100Mb connection to each other. The connection are on both (layer 2) ends up but there is not any IP communication between both switches possible. I don't have any experience on the Nortel BPS 2000. The interface on the Cisco switch is configured as a normal access port
100Mb/full. I've done a lot of things to solve the problem. I hope someone can help me to fix this problem.

Thanks, Bas.

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Walter Roberson 19 years ago

You've probably already tried this, but since we don't -know- that you've tried it:

switch the ports on both side to autonegotiate and see if you can get a link.

How are you testing for ip communications? If you are trying to ping the BPS 2000 switch itself, then you just might be running across a configuration in which the port you are trying to communicate over is not in the BPS 2000 "management VLAN".

I believe the BPS 2000 offers a method of uploading the configuration file as text to a tftp server; if so then if you are still stuck, you could post that and the 3550 configuration (with any sensitive information obscured -- but not so much that we can't distinguish which subnet or IP address is the same as which other.)

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jw 19 years ago

make sure the 3550 port facing the bps is not in auto desirable- set it to access mode for that vlan

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