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i86bi-linux-l2-adventerprisek9-15.1a.bin on Cisco IOU via GNS3

I set up the following topology in GNS3: enter image description here

All I did was power on the devices, connect them and do a 'no shut'-command on their connected interfaces.

I thought spanning tree was enabled by default but when I do a show spanning-tree on any of the switches it says "No spanning tree instances exist".

The FastEthernet1/0 ports of ESW2 and ESW3 both show a status of UP/Down.

Do I have to enable the port as trunks before spanning-tree gets enabled? Why is the fa1/0 of those two switches UP/Down? It looks almost like it might be blocking?

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  • What is the status on the interfaces on ESW1? run the command "show VLAN" and post the response.
    – Ron Trunk
    Sep 14, 2015 at 12:51
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    Sep 14, 2015 at 20:43

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I looked again and found I was using the wrong ports.

The switches were configured with a GT96100-FE (2 ports) and a NM-16ESW module.

I was using the GT9600 ports (fa0/0 -fa0/1) which don't even support switchport mode commands.

I plugged everything into the NM module and it worked as expected. Sorry my bad!

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