Cisco 6509 layer 2/3 ethernet switch

Background

Cisco's 6509 is a chassis based ethernet switch with 9 horizontal blades. At least one of these must contain a supervisor module to control the switch operation. Optionally a second may be fitted to provide redundancy should one supervisor fail.
6509's may run either CatOS or IOS. I will only describe IOS here.

This info was noted down whilst configuring a 6509 to feed a variety of IBM AIX and Storage hardware. The EtherChannel config was written to link to an IBM p590 Virtual IO server. As two VIO servers were created on the p590, two EtherChannels were set up, one to each VIO server.

Editing multiple ports

If you have a range of ports to set up identically, you can use the following syntax, the spaces round the "-" seem important. The following sets up fastethernet ports on blade 5 from 1 to 5 and gigabit ethernet ports on blade 1, ports 1 & 2. Obviously you could not use this syntax to do speed 1000 on both ranges as fast ethernet is 100MB/s. Or at least it should be obvious.....

router(config)# interface range fe 5/1 - 5, gi 1/1 - 2

search for string in output (more in Unix)

If you have a large config file, "show run" takes ages to get to where you want to look, so if you just want to see from blade 2 port 34, use the following:-

sh run | beg 2/34

Unix users will recognise this as a rather cut down "more" command. Note the spaces round the pipe, these seem to be needed.

Configuration Setting up an EtherChannel trunk

The first thing to do is to create the interface for the etherchannel, in this case Port-channel10. Once the EtherChannel is defined, real switch ports are added to it with the " channel-group 10 mode on" command.
Define the port channel:-

interface Port-channel10
 description *** Etherchannel Int P590 VIOS ***
 switchport
 switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
 switchport trunk allowed vlan 10-13
 switchport mode trunk
 no ip address
 storm-control broadcast level 1.00
 storm-control multicast level 1.00
!

Define config for ports assigned to the trunk (only 2 in this example) and add them to the channel-group:-

interface GigabitEthernet1/15
 description *** Trunk to P590 ***
 switchport
 switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
 switchport trunk allowed vlan 10-13
 switchport mode trunk
 no ip address
 storm-control broadcast level 1.00
 storm-control multicast level 1.00
 channel-group 10 mode on
!
interface GigabitEthernet1/16
 description *** Trunk to P590 ***
 switchport
 switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
 switchport trunk allowed vlan 10-13
 switchport mode trunk
 no ip address
 storm-control broadcast level 1.00
 storm-control multicast level 1.00
 channel-group 10 mode on
!

To Do:-

1. Describe setting up syslog server.
2. Describe VLAN trunking.