Hi,
Fairly unique situation.
I have two EX4200 switches (12.1R3), a SSG-5, and we use RIverbed Steelhead which have Gigabit dual port adapters with bypass. When in bypass it is effectively a straight through cable.
I am trying to use VLANs to segment the switch and use the several ports separately - even though the traffic is on the same IP subnet - it is either side of the Steelhead accelerator.
So here is what I have:
The SSG-5 and EX4200-1 are in the comms rack.
EX4200-2 and the steelhead are in the server rack.
The two racks are connected via a 10G fibre in XE-0/1/0 in each EX4200.
So my packets flow like this (well if it worked !):
SSG-5 WAN > EX4200-1 (Vlan 10) > Fibre Trunk > EX4200-2 (VLAN10) > Steelhead WAN > Steelhead LAN > EX4200-2 (VLAN20)
The fibre is set as a Trunk port both ends with all the VLANS on it. (There are more VLANS but they are unrelated).
VLAN10 is my "WAN side of Steelhead" traffic.
VLAN 20 is my "LAN side of Steelhead" traffic.
I have tried pretty much every combination of Trunk, Trunk with Native, and Access settings on the ports to no avail.
I note that "access" ports are meant to be for a single end-point connection - but the Steelhead isn't really an endpoint - especially in bypass mode which is relays on the card - so a straight cable.
I have link lights.
Anyone point me in the right direction ?
Regards
Ian