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Turn ethernet interface 0/1 into subinterfaces remotely without hosing the connection?

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I have 6 locations with 3430 routers on our MPLS network that are all live. For each router, I need to change eth 0/1 so that it has subinterfaces for 3 VLANs.

Here is one of the interface configs:

interface eth 0/1

  description desc LAN Block 10.6.0.0/23

  ip address  10.6.0.1  255.255.254.0

  no ip proxy-arp

  ip access-policy LAN

  ip flow ingress

  ip flow egress

  no shutdown

  no lldp send-and-receive

I need to turn it into this:

interface eth 0/1

  encapsulation 802.1q

  no shutdown

interface eth 0/1.1

  description LAN

  vlan-id 1 native

  ip address  10.6.0.1  255.255.254.0

  ip access-policy LAN

  ip flow ingress

  ip flow egress

  no shutdown

interface eth 0/1.42

  description Wireless Guest

  vlan-id 42

  ip address  10.6.20.2  255.255.254.0

  ip flow ingress wireless

  ip flow egress wireless

  no shutdown

interface eth 0/1.50

  description Shoretel VoIP VLAN 50

  vlan-id 50

  ip address  10.91.241.1  255.255.255.224

  no shutdown

How can I do so remotely without hosing my connection as soon as I remove the ip address from eth 0/1 to create eth 0/1.1? I do not have ssh access through the WAN interface. There has to be some way to accomplish this though! I do know the trick about "reload in 10" so that the router will reboot to the previous config as long as I don't do a write mem first. These routers are in 6 remote locations with folks who don't know ssh from gopher, let alone talking them through serial access and getting them cables.

Thanks for any suggestions!

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Re: Turn ethernet interface 0/1 into subinterfaces remotely without hosing the connection?

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Hi danielj_co:

If you're confident in your new configs and your sites can tolerate minor downtime, you can just copy to each unit's flash, copy to startup-configuration and schedule a reboot for overnight.

Using a text editor, copy the contents of your new config to your computer's clipboard.  Logon to an AOS unit, go to the Enable prompt and disable event notification:


no events




Prepare the console so that you can paste the config from your clipboard:


copy console mynewconfig.cfg




Then paste (right-click using Putty).  After the paste operation is finished, press Ctrl-D.  Now copy the new config to startup-config:


copy mynewconfig.cfg startup-config




Schedule a reload (using hhh:mm format)


reload in 10:00




When prompted, choose NO to saving the configuration, otherwise the current running-configuration will overwrite your changes to startup-configuration.  Then choose YES that you're sure to reload.

Note that command syntax may vary, depending on your AOS version.  Will this work for your situation?

Best,

Chris

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Anonymous
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Re: Turn ethernet interface 0/1 into subinterfaces remotely without hosing the connection?

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Hi danielj_co:

If you're confident in your new configs and your sites can tolerate minor downtime, you can just copy to each unit's flash, copy to startup-configuration and schedule a reboot for overnight.

Using a text editor, copy the contents of your new config to your computer's clipboard.  Logon to an AOS unit, go to the Enable prompt and disable event notification:


no events




Prepare the console so that you can paste the config from your clipboard:


copy console mynewconfig.cfg




Then paste (right-click using Putty).  After the paste operation is finished, press Ctrl-D.  Now copy the new config to startup-config:


copy mynewconfig.cfg startup-config




Schedule a reload (using hhh:mm format)


reload in 10:00




When prompted, choose NO to saving the configuration, otherwise the current running-configuration will overwrite your changes to startup-configuration.  Then choose YES that you're sure to reload.

Note that command syntax may vary, depending on your AOS version.  Will this work for your situation?

Best,

Chris

Re: Turn ethernet interface 0/1 into subinterfaces remotely without hosing the connection?

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This is pretty much what Adtran support recommended, although they recommended uploading the config through the web interface and doing a reboot from there without saving first. Why the 10 minute delay on the reload, though?

Anonymous
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Re: Turn ethernet interface 0/1 into subinterfaces remotely without hosing the connection?

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Just for convenience.  The command "reload in" uses hhh:mm format, so the example was for 10 hours.  Sometimes it's handy to let the unit reload after-hours so you don't bother users during normal operation.