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Deploying the Dell PowerConnect 8100 with the Cisco Catalyst
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Contents
Introduction ............................................................................................... 4
Overview of VLANs
.................................................................................................... 5
Creating and assigning VLANs
....................................................................................... 5
Management VLAN vs. SVI on the Cisco Catalyst
6500 .......................................................... 5
Dell PowerConnect 8100 CLI
....................................................................................... 6
Cisco Catalyst
CLI
.................................................................................................... 7
Access, trunk and general Switchport
Modes
..................................................................... 8
VLAN configuration
example.......................................................................................
9
Dell PowerConnect 8100 CLI
....................................................................................... 9
Cisco Catalyst
CLI
.................................................................................................. 10
PVID and native
VLAN
............................................................................................... 11
Dell PowerConnect 8100 CLI
..................................................................................... 11
Cisco Catalyst
CLI
.................................................................................................. 12
Creating and connecting LAGs using LACP
...................................................................... 13
Enabling Spanning Tree – RSTP vs.
RPVST+...................................................................... 13
Method 1:
Portfast
................................................................................................ 14
Dell PowerConnect 8100 CLI
..................................................................................... 15
Cisco Catalyst
CLI
.................................................................................................. 15
Method 2: MSTP
................................................................................................... 16
Cisco proprietary
protocols ........................................................................................ 16
Appendix A - Network switch versions ............................................................... 18
About Dell ................................................................................................ 18