Topology
Instructions
Connect to the switch using a console connection. Connect a PC to each switch, or connect the switch to the FastEthernet port on a router:
- Add IP addresses to the PCs or router Ethernet interfaces
- Create VLAN20 on the switch
- Set the ports the PCs connect to as access ports (default, but do it anyway)
- Put the two switch ports into VLAN20
- Check which switch is the Root Bridge
- Force the other switch to become the Root Bridge
- Hard set the switch ports to the PCs to 100Mbps and full duplex
- Wait 30 seconds and test a ping
Solution Hints and Commands
- Use the vlan 20 command to create vlan
- sw mode access
- sw access vlan 20
- show spanning-tree [parameters]
- span vlan 20 root primary
- speed 100 / duplex full