How do I uplink a cisco 2900 series XL switch?

Dmosinee

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Oct 7, 2001
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Hello,
Recenly our lanning community has acquired a cisco 2900 series xl 10/00 24-port switch from a local business. We tried to use it at our LAN last night, and we met with limmeted success. After setting up the console cable and using a terminal to log into the switch, I reconfigured the stuff as best as I knew how. When finished, we could use the switch to connect to each other but we couldn't get the internet to work. What we were doing was trying to ruuplink the switch to our router/firewall, but It wouldn't access it. When we plug in the cable from the router, the switch port doesn't light up (and I know it;s not a bad port port, because I then plugged my machine into it and it lit up and worked).

My questions that need answering are:
1. Do these cisco switches have problems uplinking to other stuff? Do they have to be all by themselves?

2. What does all the stuff I had to put into the switch (like default gateway and all that) do? (I'm used to simple switches, where you plug stuff in and it does its thing, cheap switches don't require gateway and dns stuff).

4. Do Cisco switches have problems with some types of network gear, because that might explain why we don't get a light when connecting from our router (also we have two older machines we tried plugging into the switch that won't get a light).

5. Do I need to know a lot more than I do to make thiseven work? Someone online had tried to help and he said something about trunking and vlan and some other stuff that I have no Idea what is.

Thanks In Advance!
 

rawko

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Jan 17, 2000
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the stuff you setup relating to the gateway and ip of the switch are for the switch itself, they don't really matter in your setup. You can do one of several things to uplink it.
you could put a normal cable from your router's uplink port to any port on the cisco switch
you could run a crossover cable from any normal port on the router to any of the ports on the cisco switch

the vlan thing could mess things up, but it won't make it lights not turn on. You just need the right combo of crossover or nromal cable and the right port..
 

me19562

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Jun 27, 2001
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Ok guys

1) The default gateway is for management only
2) To connect the router to the switch u only need a normal straight cat5 patch cable from the ethernet port of the router to any port on the
switch(not from any uplink port to the switch)
3) Vlan, u just need to setup the vlan interface in the switch, if the switch is not already configured