Loopback on Cisco 2950

[Bedrock1977]

This may be a crazy question, but is it possible to assign a loopback address to a typical switch port on a 2950 switch? I want to be able to have some devices connected to a switch to test access lists and VLANs. Thanks.

 

[Protoform-X]

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? You can't assign an address to a switchport since it's not layer 3. Maybe you can do a router on a stick configuration to give your VLANs pingable IP's?

 

[Lord Nassirbannipal]

If you just want to give ip addresses to test access lists, then you can just assign them to the vlans.

 

[Bedrock1977]

OK. I saw some documentation where they had assigned IP addresses to certain switch ports, one for each vlan. I did not realize it was a 3550 layer 3 switch they were using and that you can only do that on a layer 3 switch.

Thanks.