Don’t get your hopes up, I’m not taking sides here. I just wanted to show how the companies differ in basic switch configuration. Now for you who don’t know who Extreme is, they are the purple ones, better known as Extreme Networks. They offer some pretty nice products that compete very well with the likes of Cisco or HP. Feel free to check out their product line at http://www.extremenetworks.com/.
Configuring VLANs:
Extreme – Create 2 VLANs and basic configuration
create vlan data
configure vlan data tag 2
configure vlan data ipaddress 10.0.2.1/24
create vlan voice
configure vlan voice tag 3
configure vlan voice ipaddress 10.0.3.1/24
enable ipforwarding
Cisco – Create 2 VLAN interfaces and basic configuration
vlan dat
vlan 2 name data
vlan 3 name voice
exit
configure terminal
interface vlan 2
ip address 10.0.2.1 255.255.255.0
no shutdown
interface vlan 3
ip address 10.0.3.1 255.255.255.0
Port Configuration
Extreme
-switch to pc on (vlan 2)
configure vlan data add port 4 untagged
-switch to phone (vlan 3) and PC (vlan 2)
configure vlan voice add port 4 tagged
configure vlan data add port 4 untagged
-switch to phone (vlan 3)
configure vlan voice add port 4 tagged
-switch to switch
configure vlan default add port 1 tagged
configure vlan data add port 1 tagged
configure vlan voice add port 1 tagged
Cisco (skipping configure terminal)
-switch to pc on (vlan 2)
interface g0/4
sw mode access
sw acc vlan 2
-switch to phone (vlan 3) and PC (vlan 2)
interface g0/4
switchport mode trunk
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport access vlan 2
-switch to phone (vlan 3)
interface g0/4
switchport mode trunk
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
-switch to switch
interface g0/4
switchport mode trunk
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
Show Commands
Extreme – show port 4 information detail
Cisco – show interface g0/4
Extreme – show iproute
Cisco – show ip route
Extreme – show edp port all
Cisco – show cdp neigh
Extreme – show vlan
Cisco – show vlan
Extreme – show fdb
Cisco – show mac-address-table
Extreme – show config
Cisco – show run
Saving your work
Extreme – save
Cisco – write memory
Extreme – upload configuration vr vr-default 10.0.0.100
Cisco – copy start tftp
Starting over
Extreme – unconfigure switch all
Cisco – write erase