Cisco Catalyst 3750-E

In the two previous posts I covered how to create multiple VLANs, trunk those VLANs between multiple stackable Avaya Ethernet Routing Switches utilizing Multi-Link Trunking and how to create Layer 3 IP interfaces to be used for routing IP packets between those VLANs.

In this post I thought I would expand the network topology of my previous two posts to include a Cisco Catalyst WS-C3750X-12S-S   . I’ll specifically cover how to trunk (bridge) multiple VLANs between a stackable Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch and the Cisco Catalyst 3750-E and how to configure multiple interfaces in a Link Aggregation Group (LAG) utilizing LACP similar to Avaya’s proprietary MLT feature.

Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 4548

Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 4548 – Show Commands

4548GT-PWR#show lacp port 45,46

Admin Oper         Trunk Partner

Port Priority Lacp    A/I Timeout Key   Key   AggrId Id    Port    Status

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

45   32768    Active  A   Short   10    12298 8224   32    302     Active

46   32768    Active  A   Short   10    12298 8224   32    303     Active

4548GT-PWR#show mac-address-table

Mac Address Table Aging Time: 300

Number of addresses: 26

   MAC Address    Vid  Source         MAC Address    Vid  Source

00-02-B3-CB-77-A2    1 Port:19     00-04-61-9E-46-7E    1 Port:21

00-0C-29-64-33-F9    1 Port:19     00-0C-29-A5-CB-54    1 Port:19

00-0F-20-95-38-D5    1 Port:11     00-18-01-EA-F4-45    1 Port: 1

00-1C-11-6B-DC-6B    1 Port: 1     00-1C-11-6D-15-27    1 Port: 1

00-1C-11-6D-15-DC    1 Port: 1     00-1E-7E-7C-2C-00    1

00-1E-7E-7C-2C-40    1             00-1F-0A-CE-BC-01    1 Trunk:1

00-1F-0A-CE-BC-40    1 Trunk:1     00-1F-D0-D0-BE-2D    1 Port:17

00-23-EE-96-AA-21    1 Port: 1     00-24-B5-F6-94-02    1 Trunk:1

00-64-40-CF-4D-AD    1 Trunk:32    00-64-40-CF-4D-AE    1 Trunk:32

00-64-40-CF-4D-C0    1 Trunk:32    00-0A-E4-76-9C-C8    2 Port:44

00-24-DC-DF-0D-08    2 Port:43     00-A0-F8-5E-CE-BC    2 Port:39

00-1F-0A-CE-BC-41  100 Trunk:1     00-24-7F-99-84-70  100 Port:25

00-64-40-CF-4D-AD  100 Trunk:32    00-1E-CA-F3-1D-B4  200 Port:26

00-1F-0A-CE-BC-43  200 Trunk:1     00-64-40-CF-4D-AD  200 Trunk:32

4548GT-PWR#show mlt

Id Name             Members                Bpdu   Mode           Status  Type

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

1  MLT_to_ERS5520   47-48                  All    Basic          Enabled Trunk

2  Trunk #2         NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

3  Trunk #3         NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

4  Trunk #4         NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

5  Trunk #5         NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

6  Trunk #6         NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

7  Trunk #7         NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

8  Trunk #8         NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

9  Trunk #9         NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

10 Trunk #10        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

11 Trunk #11        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

12 Trunk #12        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

13 Trunk #13        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

14 Trunk #14        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

15 Trunk #15        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

16 Trunk #16        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

17 Trunk #17        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

18 Trunk #18        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

19 Trunk #19        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

20 Trunk #20        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

21 Trunk #21        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

22 Trunk #22        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

23 Trunk #23        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

24 Trunk #24        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

25 Trunk #25        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

26 Trunk #26        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

27 Trunk #27        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

28 Trunk #28        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

29 Trunk #29        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

30 Trunk #30        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

31 Trunk #31        NONE                   All    Basic          Disabled

32 Trunk #32        45-46                  Single DynLag/Basic   Enabled Trunk

You might be looking at the output above and asking yourself what’s “Trunk 32″? Let me provide some quick background. You can have a total of 32 MLT/LAG trunks on a stackable Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch. When you create LACP trunks the switch automatically creates a LAG in the MLT table dynamically from the bottom up. While in the previous post I created “Trunk 1″ by trunking ports 47 and 48 together (see above), in this post I’ve created an LACP trunk on ports 45 and 46 which will be reported it the WS-C3750V2-48PS-S   switch as “Trunk 32″. You can also see it in the MAC/FDB table above.