Help with trunk on Force10 S4810

Hi,

Did you add the VLANs to the ports?

On the 5548

interface tengigabitethernet1/0/1

switchport trunk allowed vlan 10, 200

Page 503 http://downloads.dell.com/Manuals/Common/PowerConnect5500_CLIRef_en-us.pdf

Even with this configuration, not worked!

Did you set the vlans on the force10 side as well?

http://downloads.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_networking/esuprt_net_fxd_prt_swtchs/force10-s4810_Owner%27s%20Manual8_en-us.pdf

Page 786

What does the command show?

show interfaces switchport

Is VLAN 1 a tagged or untagged vlan?

Name: TenGigabitEthernet 0/39

802.1QTagged: Hybrid

Vlan membership:

Q       Vlans

U       1

T       10, 200

If vlan 1 is untagged you should change the port mode on the powerconnect from trunk to general.

Not that I'm aware, but how can I see this?

Are you running the ping from the notebook or from one of the switches?

Josh, for testing purposes I did the following configuration. The goal here is to use the VLAN 200 (tagged and existent on S4810) on the Powerconnect:

The config on powerconnect:

!

interface tengigabitethernet 1/0/1

switchport mode general

switchport general allowed vlan add 240 tagged

!

interface gigabitethernet 1/0/37

switchport mode general

switchport general allowed vlan add 240 tagged

!

then I put my notebook on the gi 1/0/37 on powerconnect. I use Wireshark to capture traffic and see the traffic from vlan 240, but I cannot communicate whit this network. I'm only receiving data, but I cannot make a ping connectoin for example.

What I'm doing wrong?

Run the command on the 5524 ip routing.

Is routing enabled on one of the switches? Most client OSes only send untagged packets, so a tagged vlan will not be able to connect.

I run the command  "show ip route"  on the powerconnect 5548 :

IP Forwarding:          enabled

Codes: C - connected, S - static, D - DHCP

S  0.0.0.0/0          [1/1] via 172.16.1.254 Backup Not Active

the ip 172.16.1.254 is the default gateway of my Lan.

on the S4810 the command show ip route return the following:

SW4810_SITEB#show ip route

Codes: C - connected, S - static, R - RIP,

      B - BGP, IN - internal BGP, EX - external BGP,LO - Locally Originated,

      O - OSPF, IA - OSPF inter area, N1 - OSPF NSSA external type 1,

      N2 - OSPF NSSA external type 2, E1 - OSPF external type 1,

      E2 - OSPF external type 2, i - IS-IS, L1 - IS-IS level-1,

      L2 - IS-IS level-2, IA - IS-IS inter area, * - candidate default,

      > - non-active route, + - summary route

Gateway of last resort is not set

      Destination        Gateway                      Dist/Metric Last Change

      -----------        -------                      ----------- -----------

 C    172.16.0.0/16      Direct, Vl 1                         0/0       57w5d

It looks like it only sees a direct connected vlan for vlan 1 and not vlan 200.