vlans between 2 powerconnect 6224 using XFP modules

Question

Dear friends, I have 2 powerconnect 6224 switches interconnected using optical fiber and the XFP ports on the back side of the switches. There is no stack configuration between them. The distance between both switches is around 500 metres and they both work fine when using the default vlan ( LAN usage ) I have created an vlan using 2 ports on one firewall and I have created the same vlan on the second firewall, but I am unable to see traffic from one vlan going to the other. I also have tried to configure the ports as trunk but same result. The vlan works fine in one switch but the traffic is not able to flow to the second switch. Do you have any idea why is not working ? Maybe is not posible to have vlans using xfp connections... Any clue would be greatly aprreciated. Thanks in advance!

robegon · Answer

Thanks for your reply, I tried to do that on my switches but the problem is that I do not know how to identify the xfp port that I am using to interconnect both switches.

I have 24ports switches and as far as I know I can configure normal ports ( g1 to g24 ) and SFP ports ( xg1 to xg4 ) but I do not know the name for the 2 xfp ports on the back side to configure general mode.

Can you help me on that please ?

robegon · Answer

thanks daniel for you help, it is working really nice!

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