Cisco 2821 and 4port FastEthernet HWIC?

[UnixSkunk]

Hi,all...I've not used IOS since around version 10.2. I'm currently stumped on how to get my 2821 to assign an IP address to one of the fastethernet ports on the 4port HWIC.

I'm not currently at the device or I could provide much more info.

Usually, I follow this procedure.

enable
config t
int fastethernet 0/1/0
ip address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

To the best of my memory at this point this is what I was doing. It tells me something along the lines of "Can not assign ip address to L2 interface". At this point I'd be happy simply bringing up the interface enough to ping each one.

Many thanks....

 

[KiscoKid]

When you get access to the device, can you take a copy of the running configuration and paste it here using the 'show run' command.

many thanks

 

[ADB100]

If it is like a Catalyst 3550 (or other Layer-3 IOS switch) then you need to make the interfaces Layer-3 by issueing the command 'no switchport'. If it doesn't accept this command then you will need to create the relevent VLAN's and assign the ports to each VLAN, then create Layer-3 SVI's for each VLAN.

HTH

Andy