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I have a Cisco 3650 that doesn't seem to be able to communicate with one particular workstation for some reason and I am at a loss to figure out why and hope someone can give me a suggestion. I have a flat network like the following:

                             -------- PC (OK)
                             |
Switch 2 ---------- Switch 1 -------- PC (Times out)
                             |
                             -------- PC (OK)

Now switch 1 can ping the PC fine but switch 2 cannot. Switch 2 can ping other PCs that are also connected off of switch 1.

I cannot find any valid reason why switch 1 would ping OK but switch 2 cannot.

I am not sure what information you might need but I will post whatever config is required.

EDIT:

Switch 2 Config:

https://pastebin.com/YNrk1947

Switch 1 Config:

https://pastebin.com/TcFVprQA

Switch 2 connects from port Gi1/1/1 to port Gi1/0/48 switch 1. The PC in question is actually 2 more hops away on two other switches. As things work fine from switch 1 I haven't included them but can if need be

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  • You need to edit your question to include the switch configurations, otherwise we can only speculate or guess, which is off-topic here. – Ron Maupin♦ Sep 28 '17 at 16:58
  • Thanks, I have included links to to configs on Pastebin as the post is too long otherwise. – Caynadian Sep 28 '17 at 18:14
  • What VLAN are the PCs on? – Ron Trunk Sep 28 '17 at 18:40
  • Thanks for the assist! Unfortunately you would not have been able to solve the issue as I had hidden the mac addresses stickyed to the ports in my config listing. This was ultimately the issue. – Caynadian Sep 28 '17 at 19:42
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I figured out the issue. I connected the offending PC directly to the problem switch and still couldn't ping it. At this point I realized it must be an issue with the switch so I connected to it from another PC and noticed that the PC had a static mac address attached to gi1/0/1 in the mac address table instead of having a dynamic mac address. It was then that I realized that the mac address had been set as sticky port security on gi1/0/1. Once I cleared that, everything worked fine again.

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  • You should accept your answer so that the question doesn't keep popping up forever, looking for an answer. – Ron Maupin♦ Dec 28 '17 at 4:14
  • @RonMaupin Thanks... Forgot to come back and mark it as you have to wait 3 days to answer your own question. – Caynadian Dec 28 '17 at 14:17

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