To Configure Data Plane Switch Ports

Steps

1. Connect ports to the external switch or router.

   Configure these ports as trunk ports that allow tagged packets using dot1q notation. By default, most Cisco switches allow all created VLANs to pass through if a port is in trunk mode. However, if this behavior is not implicit to the external switch being used, explicitly set the ports to allow all VLANs to pass through.

   For example, on the Cisco 3750 and 4503 switches, the set of commands to achieve this for port GigabitEthernet 0/6 are as follows:

   c3750-eng1>enable Password: c3750-eng1#config term Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. c3750-eng1(config)#interface Gigabitethernet 0/6 c3750-eng1(config-if)#switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q c3750-eng1(config-if)#switchport mode trunk c3750-eng1(config-if)#^Z c3750-eng1#

2. Connect ports to the NetP0 switch port of the chassis.

   Configure the remaining ports in the same manner and execute the same commands as described in the previous step.

3. Connect the port to a VLAN-aware NIC of the provisioning server.

   Configure the port in the same manner and execute the same commands as described in step 1.