Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6500 mounting with cables

2013-07-08 Thread Jeremy Bresley
On 7/8/2013 8:28 AM, Chris Marget wrote: On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Ricardo Stella wrote: Ok my math is off and got curious... It would be 6 gig ports. Yes. So a 48 port blade would require 8 RJ21 connectors, which is not unprecedented: http://bit.ly/156LDdK I'm not saying it's not crow

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS down to the CPE

2013-07-08 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2013-07-08 22:01 +0200), Mark Tinka wrote: > As long as no one gets ideas to bring back source routing of > old a la "ip source-route" :-). Isn't any divergence from SPF type of source routing? I.e. any form of MPLS-TE, including RSVP? And as such desirable quality in many corner cases (mayb

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS down to the CPE

2013-07-08 Thread Phil Bedard
I have been looking over those drafts and like what I see thus far, makes perfect sense. Too bad it didn't exist 4 years ago. :) Phil On 7/8/13 11:31 AM, "Saku Ytti" wrote: >On (2013-07-08 17:14 +0200), Mark Tinka wrote: > >> We, at the time, opted to wait for IP LFA since RSVP-TE in >> the A

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS down to the CPE

2013-07-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On Monday, July 08, 2013 08:22:49 PM Phil Bedard wrote: > It really depends on how things are deployed and how > distributed they are. We distribute the larger > aggregation nodes to various sites and then generally > have access rings with access nodes hung off of those. > We typically do not ha

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS down to the CPE

2013-07-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On Monday, July 08, 2013 05:31:49 PM Saku Ytti wrote: > Even tLDP needed for rLFA is less than desirable, > additional states seemingly arbitrarily signalled up and > down. By the time I left $previous_job, LFA was barely coming online in Junos, let alone mature or young IOS. So we opted to wai

Re: [c-nsp] ASA 5585-X SSP-10 multi-context failover not stateful with IPv4

2013-07-08 Thread Vinny_Abello
No, just static routes in this environment. And I'm running a version that is already supposedly fixed, 9.1(2) as this was fixed in 9.1(1.1), But thanks. -Original Message- From: Antonio Soares [mailto:amsoa...@netcabo.pt] Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 10:46 AM To: Abello, Vinny; cisco-nsp

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS down to the CPE

2013-07-08 Thread Phil Bedard
On 7/8/13 11:14 AM, "Mark Tinka" wrote: >On Monday, July 08, 2013 12:33:36 PM Phil Bedard wrote: > >> XR supports it in the latest revision, didn't know about >> the 3600 support. I guess this is the C-NSP list. We >> have thousands of non-Cisco nodes deployed using RSVP-TE >> in the access lay

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS down to the CPE

2013-07-08 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2013-07-08 17:14 +0200), Mark Tinka wrote: > We, at the time, opted to wait for IP LFA since RSVP-TE in > the Access (even just to the adjacent PE routers) just > didn't look administratively feasible, let alone scale :-). Even tLDP needed for rLFA is less than desirable, additional states

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS down to the CPE

2013-07-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On Monday, July 08, 2013 12:33:36 PM Phil Bedard wrote: > XR supports it in the latest revision, didn't know about > the 3600 support. I guess this is the C-NSP list. We > have thousands of non-Cisco nodes deployed using RSVP-TE > in the access layer but it requires stitching at the > service laye

Re: [c-nsp] ASA 5585-X SSP-10 multi-context failover not stateful with IPv4

2013-07-08 Thread Antonio Soares
Are you running OSPF ? If yes, check this bug: http://tools.cisco.com/Support/BugToolKit/search/getBugDetails.do?method=fet chBugDetails&bugId=CSCuc12967 Regards, Antonio Soares, CCIE #18473 (R&S/SP) amsoa...@netcabo.pt http://www.ccie18473.net -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp [mai

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6500 mounting with cables

2013-07-08 Thread Brielle Bruns
On Jul 8, 2013, at 7:12 AM, Chris Marget wrote: > I've often lamented that Cisco no longer ships blades with RJ21 > connectors. I worked in a couple of shops where tens of thousands of > user ports used this type of line card, and there were no cable > management problems at the face of the switc

[c-nsp] ASA 5585-X SSP-10 multi-context failover not stateful with IPv4

2013-07-08 Thread Vinny_Abello
Hi all, I have a bizarre situation that isn't making sense to me. I have two ASA 5585-X firewalls with SSP-10. They are in an Active/Standby configuration and running in multi-context mode. I have replication of state information between them working just fine. We're running both IPv4 and IPv6

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6500 mounting with cables

2013-07-08 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > We ran cables left and right, but all servers was channel bonded > (split between left & right), so we could remove all cables required > and replace the fan tray without any disruption. Took a ton of work > though :-( we have VSS pairs so the remote links are dual linked (or more) to each

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6500 mounting with cables

2013-07-08 Thread Chris Marget
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Ricardo Stella wrote: > > Ok my math is off and got curious... It would be 6 gig ports. Yes. So a 48 port blade would require 8 RJ21 connectors, which is not unprecedented: http://bit.ly/156LDdK I'm not saying it's not crowded, just that it's better (IMO) than 48

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6500 mounting with cables

2013-07-08 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 01:01:32PM +, Alan Buxey wrote: > Interesting kit. Regarding fan unit - have had plenty of blade/sup swaps > and failures. .. no fan tray (now I've said that. ..) the only time we > had a fan swap was for a wholesale upgrade to e-series so ALL kit got taken

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6500 mounting with cables

2013-07-08 Thread Ricardo Stella
Rj21 has 50 pins, ie 25 pairs. You'll get 4 gig ports out of one. --- °(((=((===°°°((( On Jul 8, 2013, at 9:14 AM, Chris Marget wrote: > I've often lamented that Cisco no longer ships blades with RJ21 > connectors. I worked in a couple of shop

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6500 mounting with cables

2013-07-08 Thread Ricardo Stella
Ok my math is off and got curious... It would be 6 gig ports. From Wikipedia.. RJ21 connectors are used to connect Ethernet ports in bulk from a switch with RJ21 ports to a CAT-5 rated patch panel, or between two patch panels. A cable with an RJ21 connector on one end can support 6 fully wir

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6500 mounting with cables

2013-07-08 Thread Chris Knipe
I have to replace a faulty fan tray on a *almost* fully populated 6513 (10/100/1000 line cards). That, was fun, I tell you. We ran cables left and right, but all servers was channel bonded (split between left & right), so we could remove all cables required and replace the fan tray without any di

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6500 mounting with cables

2013-07-08 Thread Chris Marget
I've often lamented that Cisco no longer ships blades with RJ21 connectors. I worked in a couple of shops where tens of thousands of user ports used this type of line card, and there were no cable management problems at the face of the switch. I don't see any technical reason to have abandoned thi

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6500 mounting with cables

2013-07-08 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 08:47:38AM -0400, Chris Marget wrote: > If cables are run to the left, how do you deal with a failed fan module? "lots of spitting and cursing" (There's just no way to get "everything perfect" - if you have a chassis full of 48port-copper-modules, the amount of cablin

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6500 mounting with cables

2013-07-08 Thread Alan Buxey
Interesting kit. Regarding fan unit - have had plenty of blade/sup swaps and failures. .. no fan tray (now I've said that. ..) the only time we had a fan swap was for a wholesale upgrade to e-series so ALL kit got taken out. alan ___ cisco-nsp ma

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6500 mounting with cables

2013-07-08 Thread Chris Marget
Some cable management products for 6500 have a solid plate which forces all cables to run right. Like this one: http://bit.ly/1d9Rgej If cables are run to the left, how do you deal with a failed fan module? My preference is to use Panduit Plugpacks (http://bit.ly/10ID89A) at the front of the swit

Re: [c-nsp] Quick question regarding BGP route churn & PRP-2

2013-07-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On Monday, July 08, 2013 12:57:39 PM Saku Ytti wrote: > I don't feel I'm in the position to make the decision for > my customer when they should be able to receive unstable > route and when not. I am of a similar view. I never supported RFD way back then (despite the fact that with our old sate

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6500 mounting with cables

2013-07-08 Thread Ian McDonald
You also get a V-E chassis which has the modules vertically, and a cable manager fanning the cables out. -- ian -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Alan Buxey Sent: 08 July 2013 13:21 To: Jon Lewis; chris stand Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.n

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6500 mounting with cables

2013-07-08 Thread Alan Buxey
We use cable management bars and route all cables to the left and right thus ensuring that we don't have cables blocking the removal of a failed module or a module that needs swapping out for upgrade. Would recommend wider racks for such locations . You have more space to each side and often con

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6500 mounting with cables

2013-07-08 Thread Jon Lewis
On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, chris stand wrote: Does anyone mount 6500s directly under the patch panels ? If you do, do the cables run to the left and right and would you share a photo or two ? I've run cables in from both sides. You can get cable management bars that rack mount on top of the 6500 c

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS down to the CPE

2013-07-08 Thread Phil Bedard
XR supports it in the latest revision, didn't know about the 3600 support. I guess this is the C-NSP list. We have thousands of non-Cisco nodes deployed using RSVP-TE in the access layer but it requires stitching at the service layer to scale. It has shown to be scalable at least for us. One thing

[c-nsp] Cisco 6500 mounting with cables

2013-07-08 Thread chris stand
Does anyone mount 6500s directly under the patch panels ? If you do, do the cables run to the left and right and would you share a photo or two ? Thank you, Chris ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/lis

Re: [c-nsp] Quick question regarding BGP route churn & PRP-2

2013-07-08 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2013-07-08 13:57 +0300), Saku Ytti wrote: > I think it was bit early of RIPE to make new recommendation pretty much > immediately as the RFC came out. This should read 'as the draft came out'. -- ++ytti ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck

Re: [c-nsp] Quick question regarding BGP route churn & PRP-2

2013-07-08 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2013-07-08 12:25 +0200), Mark Tinka wrote: > http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-580 > That's the ongoing work. I think it was bit early of RIPE to make new recommendation pretty much immediately as the RFC came out. Rationale was 'no one objected in the list'. I guess by that logic, it

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS down to the CPE

2013-07-08 Thread Adam Vitkovsky
I'm sorry I should have made myself clear on this, I meant Inter-AS MPLS where one ISP owns all ASNs Otherwise yes I agree, optA is the only solution, so far.. adam -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Saku Ytti Sent: Monday, July 08, 2

Re: [c-nsp] Quick question regarding BGP route churn & PRP-2

2013-07-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On Monday, July 08, 2013 10:47:47 AM Adam Vitkovsky wrote: > Yeah I remember I read some article basically saying you > know the whole thing of punishment being worse than the > crime thing, well it's not quite as we though it is. http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-580 That's the ongoing

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS down to the CPE

2013-07-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On Monday, July 08, 2013 11:23:25 AM Saku Ytti wrote: > I've never seen anything but OptA in inter-AS MPLS NNI. > OptB would be great, but as per previous mail, lack of > security excludes it. OptC I've only seen in shops doing > BGP confed et (euch). Yes, or M&A's. Mark. signature.asc Descrip

[c-nsp] QinQ

2013-07-08 Thread amir agha
Hi list I am new to QinQ. Any idea about QinQ basic configuration for testing CDP, Spanning, MTU etc which r connected to different switches.   Ami ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-n

Re: [c-nsp] IOS XR and router rib rump always-replicate

2013-07-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On Monday, July 08, 2013 09:49:50 AM Adam Vitkovsky wrote: > Yes I'm interested in the full blown NG-MVPN with x-PMSI > MP2MP/P2MP MLDP with BGP-AD, though right now I'd be > thankful for any mLDP support, but for that I guess I'd > have to wait about a year or so. And I hope the -CX > platform is

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS down to the CPE

2013-07-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On Monday, July 08, 2013 05:04:18 AM Gordon Smith wrote: > I'd be reluctant to expose my control plane out to a > CPE > > To provide redundancy & L2VPN services, LACP + 802.1ad > would suffice, and would allow you to keep the MPLS > control plane in equipment you have absolute control > ove

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS down to the CPE

2013-07-08 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2013-07-08 12:19 +0300), Saku Ytti wrote: > On (2013-07-08 10:33 +0200), Adam Vitkovsky wrote: > > since the advent of RFC 3107 and is how any big scale inter-as MPLS opt10C > > should have been deployed. > > OptC has been undeployable for most of its history, just recently IOS-XR Gaah I m

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS down to the CPE

2013-07-08 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2013-07-08 10:33 +0200), Adam Vitkovsky wrote: > Well Hierarchical MPLS now with a fancy name Unified MPLS has been around > since the advent of RFC 3107 and is how any big scale inter-as MPLS opt10C > should have been deployed. OptC has been undeployable for most of its history, just recent

Re: [c-nsp] Quick question regarding BGP route churn & PRP-2

2013-07-08 Thread Adam Vitkovsky
>> You could try to enable bgp dampening. >No jokes, this is coming back into the industry :-). Yeah I remember I read some article basically saying you know the whole thing of punishment being worse than the crime thing, well it's not quite as we though it is. adam _

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS down to the CPE

2013-07-08 Thread Adam Vitkovsky
Well Hierarchical MPLS now with a fancy name Unified MPLS has been around since the advent of RFC 3107 and is how any big scale inter-as MPLS opt10C should have been deployed. I believe now with BGP PIC and IP FRR Cisco added a very appealing factor to it for people who do not necessarily depend o

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS down to the CPE

2013-07-08 Thread Adam Vitkovsky
>Or IP FRR If you aren't in a ring scenario which breaks it. Not anymore, XR and XE and I believe the newest me-3600 code also does support IP FRR with Remote-LFA which solves the LFA inequality problem in ring topologies. And XR supports te-tunnel to be selected as backup interface allowing you t

Re: [c-nsp] IOS XR and router rib rump always-replicate

2013-07-08 Thread Adam Vitkovsky
>> Oh by the way does anybody know when the mLDP is going to be supported >> on ME3600 please? >Which mLDP? Full NG-MVPN mLDP or normal MDT-based mLDP? Yes I'm interested in the full blown NG-MVPN with x-PMSI MP2MP/P2MP MLDP with BGP-AD, though right now I'd be thankful for any mLDP support, bu