Does Catalyst 2950 support SNA traffic ?

hello
we are trying to integrate some legacy sna hosts
to switching enviromnent.
we are faced to a strange symptom when legacy hosts
are connected to 2950 switch no traffic sna pass thru
we checked vlan,ports ,STP, but didnt found any hints
removing 2950 from configuration clear out the problem.
so simple diagram
7206 ==wan===7206=ethernet HUB=legacy sna host OK
----DLSW----> -------SNA------>
7206==wab===7206==CAT2950===legacy sna host NO OK
-----DLSW----> ---------SNA----->
are they any issue on 2950 for SNA traffic .
thanks in advance
JYP

Hi,
in general, No. There are no general issues with sna and a cat2950. The switch doesnt care what type of traffic runs through.
Besides the obviouos, the client and the dlsw router
must be in the same vlan.
There are sometimes problems with a switched environment. I.e if you do trunking with dot1q between the switch and the dlsw router and you use the switch in a mode where it tries to autonegotiate the trunk. Dlsw forwards some of the negotiation packets which leaves the switch in a state where the connections dont work.
We have also seen a problem in some situations where a dot1q trunk is used when the switch is configured for PVSTP, per vlan stp. In that case a special type of bpdu's is send which are also get forwarded by dlsw and can cause the switch on the other end to go to blocking ect.
All of those problems can be fixed by either putting a sap filter onto the bridge group on the dlsw router and only allow the sna saps you need or adopt the switch configuration. I.e. turn of autonegotiation of the trunk mode ect.
The issue needs to be looked at individualy and i would advice to open a case with the tac and work on this problem. So that we can understand what the problem is and fix it.
thanks....
Matthias

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