I’m the chairman of the wiring committee for a hundred-unit condominium, and not a Cisco expert. Yesterday we got Comcast Business service, with an SMC3G router/modem, which works fine in isolation, or when I connect my laptop to it via our old HP dumb switches. But when I connect my laptop via our trio of Cisco Catalyst 3550 switches, DHCP usually works fine, but after that, the SMC3G is invisible: Pinging its IP address fails, even after I manually added its MAC to the arp access-list and ip source binding. Even traceroute mac from the Cisco switch gives “Error: Source Mac address not found.” Turning off DHCP in the SMC3G made no difference.
The interface settings for the port I’m usually connecting the SMC3G to (which works fine with our old AT&T DSL, via a Cisco 1417) are:
interface FastEthernet0/5
description *2nd router*
switchport access vlan 101
switchport mode access
ip dhcp snooping trust
end
The settings for the normal user ports are:
interface FastEthernet0/42
switchport access vlan 101
switchport mode access
switchport protected
no cdp enable
spanning-tree portfast
service-policy input USER_INGRESS
service-policy output USER_EGRESS
ip verify source
ip dhcp snooping limit rate 10
end
The configuration for the vlan is just:
Current configuration:
!
vlan 101
end
The Recurrent consultants who sold us the switch configured (but didn’t enable) QoS. It looks to me like they used dhcp snooping to prevent our Rogue Router problem. (This may have been what prevented my old Zyxel router from connecting, and also breaks the new router they told me I had to buy, unless I run it as a bridge instead.)
shutdown
means hard down the port NOTHING will work connected to that port.shutdown
; it wasn’t relevant to the main port, but it did help when I tried an experiment: I disabled DHCP on the SMC3G and plugged it into unused port 5, which I set to the same configuration as the main port I'm using with our old Cisco DSL router. If the problem is just with DHCP, I might have been able to use the new router via static IP; but I still can’t even ping it.show run int eth0/1
[change interface as necessary])? What's the configuration for vlan 101 (ieshow run vlan 101
)?