Hi Cisco Users,

I own a Cisco 2900 Catalyst 24 port switch. Some of the ethernet ports are
showing orange, and not working. Is there a way to reset them, or fix them.
I suspect that they may have been subject to a high voltage (spark) which
caused their falure.

Any help is appreciated.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Ashton
Jamestown Internet
P.O. Box 26
Jamestown, CO 80455
303-544-0860
jon@jimtown.org
www.jimtown.org

Orange doesn't mean bad port.  Red is a bad port.  Orange usually means
initializing, or spanning tree is blocking.  I suppose its possible the port
could just stay orange and not be working.  However, I've had more than my
share of bad ports on 2900xls, and they aren't always red.  Sometimes they
just never come on.   There's not a whole lot you can do about them.


"Jonathan Ashton" <jashton@skiwest.com> wrote in message
news:103n2dbge5p9n0e@corp.supernews.com...
> Hi Cisco Users,
>
> I own a Cisco 2900 Catalyst 24 port switch. Some of the ethernet ports are
> showing orange, and not working. Is there a way to reset them, or fix
them.
> I suspect that they may have been subject to a high voltage (spark) which
> caused their falure.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jonathan Ashton
> Jamestown Internet
> P.O. Box 26
> Jamestown, CO 80455
> 303-544-0860
> jon@jimtown.org
> www.jimtown.org
>
>
>

"Craig Johnson" <cjohnson6965@spamno.nospam.comcast.net> wrote:

Craig, do you know it this can be done??? What's funny (sort of) is my
cable when out yesterday for a few hours. If this can be done, I would
of been all set..  :)

 I have a 2900xl with (2) vlans one for cable and the other
for dial-up modem/router. What I want to know is there anyway to
switch config files by way of a batch file. What I'd like to be able
to do is if the cable goes out have the 2900 get a second config file
loaded. This config would switch all the ports that are set for cable
vlan to the vlan for the dial-up modem/router. I'd ping my cable isp
or google to see if the cable was ok, if it timed out run a batch file
(of some sort) that would load the second config file. That would
switch all the ports that are on the cable vlan to the vlan for the
dial-up modem/router vlan. Can this be done?

Many Thanks..

I don't think you can do this with a simple batch file.  You'd need a way to
telnet into the router and change the config or have it download another
config.  There are scripting tools that will do this kind of thing, but I'm
not really familiar with them.

Craig Johnson, CCIE #6965

"gene martinez" <njkat@eclipse.net> wrote in message
news:403bb0d2.29104520@news.eclipse.net...
> "Craig Johnson" <cjohnson6965@spamno.nospam.comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Craig, do you know it this can be done??? What's funny (sort of) is my
> cable when out yesterday for a few hours. If this can be done, I would
> of been all set..  :)
>
>  I have a 2900xl with (2) vlans one for cable and the other
> for dial-up modem/router. What I want to know is there anyway to
> switch config files by way of a batch file. What I'd like to be able
> to do is if the cable goes out have the 2900 get a second config file
> loaded. This config would switch all the ports that are set for cable
> vlan to the vlan for the dial-up modem/router. I'd ping my cable isp
> or google to see if the cable was ok, if it timed out run a batch file
> (of some sort) that would load the second config file. That would
> switch all the ports that are on the cable vlan to the vlan for the
> dial-up modem/router vlan. Can this be done?
>
> Many Thanks..

Wait a minute.....  Your a CCIE and you don't know everything about
all cisco products???  Something is fishy here....  :)

"Craig Johnson" <cjohnson6965@spamno.nospam.comcast.net> wrote:

>I don't think you can do this with a simple batch file.  You'd need a way to
>telnet into the router and change the config or have it download another
>config.  There are scripting tools that will do this kind of thing, but I'm
>not really familiar with them.
>
>Craig Johnson, CCIE #6965
>
>"gene martinez" <njkat@eclipse.net> wrote in message
>news:403bb0d2.29104520@news.eclipse.net...
>> "Craig Johnson" <cjohnson6965@spamno.nospam.comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> Craig, do you know it this can be done??? What's funny (sort of) is my
>> cable when out yesterday for a few hours. If this can be done, I would
>> of been all set..  :)
>>
>>  I have a 2900xl with (2) vlans one for cable and the other
>> for dial-up modem/router. What I want to know is there anyway to
>> switch config files by way of a batch file. What I'd like to be able
>> to do is if the cable goes out have the 2900 get a second config file
>> loaded. This config would switch all the ports that are set for cable
>> vlan to the vlan for the dial-up modem/router. I'd ping my cable isp
>> or google to see if the cable was ok, if it timed out run a batch file
>> (of some sort) that would load the second config file. That would
>> switch all the ports that are on the cable vlan to the vlan for the
>> dial-up modem/router vlan. Can this be done?
>>
>> Many Thanks..
>
>

Hello!

You can, for example, set up tftp server and keep two different configs
there. And make the switch to load one of them with SNMP request.

Another way is to set up rsh access on switch and create a script on other
host which will do rsh to switch and issue 'copy tftp run' command.

But you should be very carefull with config swapping, because you can lose
connectivity to switch and have to restore it with console. It would be
better if you change not the whole config, but apply only the changes to
interfaces, acl, etc.

--
 Ivan

"gene martinez" <njkat@eclipse.net> skrev i meddelandet
news:403bb0d2.29104520@news.eclipse.net...
> "Craig Johnson" <cjohnson6965@spamno.nospam.comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Craig, do you know it this can be done??? What's funny (sort of) is my
> cable when out yesterday for a few hours. If this can be done, I would
> of been all set..  :)
>
>  I have a 2900xl with (2) vlans one for cable and the other
> for dial-up modem/router. What I want to know is there anyway to
> switch config files by way of a batch file. What I'd like to be able
> to do is if the cable goes out have the 2900 get a second config file
> loaded. This config would switch all the ports that are set for cable
> vlan to the vlan for the dial-up modem/router. I'd ping my cable isp
> or google to see if the cable was ok, if it timed out run a batch file
> (of some sort) that would load the second config file. That would
> switch all the ports that are on the cable vlan to the vlan for the
> dial-up modem/router vlan. Can this be done?
>
> Many Thanks..

Question about the original post in this thread: Are you certain all the
ports are enabled? If they are disabled for anything, even error-disabled,
they show orange as well. You can cheek this through the CLI or Menu. Any
other concerns, I would be glad to help!



-- 
Roger Hilt
Network Infrastructure Technician
Langley, AFB VA
"Jonathan Ashton" <jashton@skiwest.com> wrote in message
news:103n2dbge5p9n0e@corp.supernews.com...
> Hi Cisco Users,
>
> I own a Cisco 2900 Catalyst 24 port switch. Some of the ethernet ports are
> showing orange, and not working. Is there a way to reset them, or fix
them.
> I suspect that they may have been subject to a high voltage (spark) which
> caused their falure.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jonathan Ashton
> Jamestown Internet
> P.O. Box 26
> Jamestown, CO 80455
> 303-544-0860
> jon@jimtown.org
> www.jimtown.org
>
>
>