[afnog] VLANs on Cisco Catalyst 2950

[Patrick Okui]

On Friday 26 May 2006 11:54, Mark Tinka wrote:
> On Friday 26 May 2006 10:29, Patrick Okui wrote:
> > each VLAN on the switch. Effectively we had to do an
> > int vlan blah
> > ip address 1.2.3.4 5.6.7.8
>
> Hmmh, that's not really necessary. It's only important to assign
> one IP address to one VLAN interface, typically, the
> one/backbone from which you will be running daily maintenance
> routines.
>
> It's not that necessary to have a VLAN interface for each
> configured VLAN on a(n IOS) switch.

That's what I'd have expected, but not even Cisco Phil could get this 
switch to behave otherwise - not that we tried that much once ping 
was working ;)

>
> > short of that and the switch would *not* trunk the traffic
> > from that VLAN over the trunk port(s). crazy no?
>
> Which switch-IOS version combination were you running when you
> faced this problem.

2924XL running 12.0(5)WC14 which is as of Thu 16-Feb-06 14:39 - which 
was the e0<=>backbone switch.

-- 
patrick