Re: [c-nsp] OSPF LSA Type 3 / 5 question ...

2017-02-16 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Bryan Holloway wrote: > Imagine an ABR bordering areas 0 and 1 which is summarizing 10.0.0.0/8 to > the backbone. > > Downstream is a router running OSPF with the ABR. On that router is a static > route to yet another device that does not support

Re: [c-nsp] Using MPLS PEs as gateways for access layer

2016-11-30 Thread Andrew Miehs
I see no reason why this shouldn't work. We had separate P routers due to our physical topology, but this would have worked with only PEs. Not that the Sup720s need to support MPLS, so you require at least the 3B iirc. How many 6500s and VRFs are you talking about using? Also note, with the

Re: [c-nsp] Using MPLS PEs as gateways for access layer

2016-11-29 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Ryan, I did some work for a customer a few years back doing something very similar. Campus network, 2x 6500s as P routers, 12x 6500s running as PEs, each connected to both Ps. Access switches then connected directly to the PEs. The SVIs were hosted on the 6500 PEs. We use VSS for DCs where we

Re: [c-nsp] Wierd MPLS/VPLS issue

2016-11-04 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 2:40 AM, Simon Lockhart wrote: > To me, everything *looks* right, it's just that some VPLS traffic traversing > the new link gets lost. If I have understood your post correctly, you are saying you "think" you are only seeing loss over the new link. Have

Re: [c-nsp] ACE30 Config

2016-08-17 Thread Andrew Miehs
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/interfaces-modules/services-modules/eol_C51-728979.html Extract from that same page: Customers are encouraged to migrate to the Citrix NetScaler 1000V (offered by Cisco) or alternative vendor offerings. Information about this product can be found

Re: [c-nsp] Weird throughput issue

2016-07-24 Thread Andrew Miehs
How did you go with the tcpdump? Did it show anything? On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 11:13 PM, Curtis Piehler <cpiehl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh right. I temporarily move the wan to an svi on the cat4900 > > On Jul 24, 2016 6:09 PM, "Andrew Miehs" <and...@2sheds.de> wr

Re: [c-nsp] Weird throughput issue

2016-07-24 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Curtis Piehler wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Thank you for the reply. The cat4900 and 6504 are acting as a pure Layer 2 > trunking device. The carrier NNI comes into the Cat4900 and the customer Understood, which, but you mentioned 3-4ms between

Re: [c-nsp] Weird throughput issue

2016-07-24 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Curtis Piehler wrote: ... > > Customer Site (2911 Router) -> ILEC -> Transport Provider -> Carrier NNI > (1G Copper) -> Cat4900 -> Cat6504 -> ASR9k > > The ASR9k terminates the IP for the customer so the in between devices are > Layer 2

Re: [c-nsp] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** How to use IPs from the same network on two separate interfaces?

2016-07-17 Thread Andrew Miehs
You could also create an SVI and put bother interfaces into a Vlan. I would however wonder you shouldnt reconsider the purpose of the requirement. Sent from a mobile device > On 17 Jul 2016, at 20:27, Garry wrote: > >> On 16.07.2016 13:11, Brandon Orwell wrote: >>

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco IOS: Polling OSPF External LSA count via SNMP

2016-06-04 Thread Andrew Miehs
Sent from a mobile device > > Now that my typo is out of the way, I receive a zero value for the proper > OID. > .1.3.6.1.2.1.14.1.6 = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID > .1.3.6.1.2.1.14.1.6.0 = Gauge32: 0 > > I'm able to successfully poll another router and get the proper value >

Re: [c-nsp] BGP default vs BGP full

2016-05-22 Thread Andrew Miehs
If both interfaces end on the same router you could use a LAG and just one session. You can still talk bgp to the remote side and only accept a default from them (if you ask then to send one). Lots of choices... Sent from a mobile device > On 22 May 2016, at 02:02, Satish Patel

Re: [c-nsp] MTU size, fragmentation and drops

2016-04-15 Thread Andrew Miehs
The PE was sending out packets bigger than CE could accept, due to your settings and/or the link characteristics. Its like trying to fit a domestic hose attachment (MTU1500) to a firehose (MTU9000) without an adapter. Its just not going to work, and water (PACKETS) spray out the side everywhere,

Re: [c-nsp] transport path-mtu-discovery - ME3600....too unpredictable to use?

2016-02-24 Thread Andrew Miehs
> On 25 Feb 2016, at 12:27 AM, Nick Cutting wrote: > > So the MSS will never change while the session stays up, however the IP MTU > may fluctuate, but is always aware of the upper layers maximum segment size ? > (and the lower layers link mtu) It depends what you

Re: [c-nsp] transport path-mtu-discovery - ME3600....too unpredictable to use?

2016-02-24 Thread Andrew Miehs
> On 24 Feb 2016, at 11:47 PM, Andrew Miehs <and...@2sheds.de> wrote: > > ... > period of ?5? min, the reduced MTU to this host. During this time, it > will send packets no bigger than new MTU - IP header size - TCP header > size to the destination. Once thi

Re: [c-nsp] transport path-mtu-discovery - ME3600....too unpredictable to use?

2016-02-24 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Dragan Jovicic wrote: > Large packet reaching smaller MTU is simply discarded. This is a very simplified view of the world. The following is a description for IPv4. IPv6 however is very similar. A router will try and forward a packet

Re: [c-nsp] Some Questions about Nexus 5000/3000 Switches

2016-02-04 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Alireza Soltanian wrote: > I am looking for some answers regarding Nexus 5596UP,56128P and3064P Why are you looking at the Nexus 5596? You may want to look at the N5600 or N9300. What are you actually trying to do? -- Andrew

Re: [c-nsp] Configure port to supply PoE only

2016-01-14 Thread Andrew Miehs
Why not buy power injectors? Sent from a mobile device > On 15 Jan 2016, at 13:56, Chuck Church wrote: > > You could simply create a bogus VLAN for each AP, and put each port in a > separate VLAN in access mode. Pretty simple config. Or a private isolated > VLAN, but

Re: [c-nsp] C6509 Fabric Switch Capacity

2016-01-13 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: > Alireza Soltanian wrote: >> My questions are is What will happen if we exceed capacity(Egress or >> Ingress) in Channel#0 of Slot#2? Will device use Capacity of Channel#1? > > no - the traffic will be dropped. > > slot 2

Re: [c-nsp] lack of snmp parity with cli

2016-01-13 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Saku Ytti wrote: ... > I absolutely love doing in scripts SSH exec channel for 'cli-command | > display xml' and get something parseable out, without resorting to > fragile screen-scraping. Thats what I thought too, but then you find out that

Re: [c-nsp] switch for SAN

2016-01-08 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 1:44 AM, Adam Greene wrote: > I know running Catalyst switches for SAN backbone fabric is not the best > idea, due to limited buffers. > > > However, we have been doing just that with a 3750X and Dell Equallogic > 6100/4100s for quite some time, with

Re: [c-nsp] Equipment for a large-ish LAN event

2015-12-09 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 3:20 AM, Laurent Dumont wrote: > * Because of distance between the tables and our core, the event room >physical layout, we can't directly go from our access into our core. >It would simplify our design a lot, that is very true. That

Re: [c-nsp] Equipment for a large-ish LAN event

2015-12-08 Thread Andrew Miehs
2000 users require 42x 48 port switches. If you uplink these switches with 2x 10G to 2 core routers, you would need 2 routers with at least 42x 10G ports each. So you could probably do something like using 2x Nexus 9372PX as your core switches 45x Cisco 2960X (2x 10G, one to each Nexus). Rather

Re: [c-nsp] etherchannel load balancing

2015-10-22 Thread Andrew Miehs
I don't know if cisco ever provided their official hashing algorithms anywhere however, my guess would be take the result of whichever fields you set to hash on, probably XORing all these fields together, and then evenly distribute that over 'x' number of buckets depending on the platform. Based

Re: [c-nsp] VLAN mystery

2015-10-15 Thread Andrew Miehs
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q is missing on the port on second switch. Sent from a mobile device > On 16 Oct 2015, at 04:36, Joseph Mays wrote: > > switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q ___ cisco-nsp mailing list

Re: [c-nsp] C3750G Stacking

2015-10-05 Thread Andrew Miehs
May be a faulty cable/ module. You may want to try first with only one cable, and then with the other. Then try different ports with one cable only. Andrew Sent from a mobile device > On 6 Oct 2015, at 02:29, Chris Knipe wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > I currently have a

Re: [c-nsp] SFP-10G-LRM in Nexus 5000

2015-09-14 Thread Andrew Miehs
LRM works on SM. I have used them a lot on cat 4500s but we mainly but not only used them for OM1 cable. Cisco link below: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/interfaces-modules/transceiver-modules/data_sheet_c78-455693.html Cisco SFP-10G-LRM Module The Cisco 10GBASE-LRM Module

Re: [c-nsp] TACACS/ACS on the internet

2015-08-24 Thread Andrew Miehs
Not dangerous at all. So what is the public address that you are going to use? :) Seriously, I wouldn't do it. These appliances contain your entire user list and passwords. Not a great idea to have them directly available for anyone from the Internet. Should there ever be a problem with the way

Re: [c-nsp] MTU / BGP

2015-07-22 Thread Andrew Miehs
One other alternative is that no icmp unreachables is enabled... http://packetlife.net/blog/2008/oct/9/disabling-unreachables-breaks-pmtud/ -- Andrew On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Painting, Stuart stuart.paint...@theaa.com wrote: Two obvious scenarios: 1. ICMP type 3 packets are being

Re: [c-nsp] SFPs (Third party) - ordered standard LH, but got ZX

2015-07-06 Thread Andrew Miehs
This does not look right. At 2m I would expect better light levels from LH/ LR sfps. Are you using single mode fibres? 9/125 um? Andrew Ps: zx at 2m would probably damage the receive optics on zx or lh without some form of attenuation. Sent from a mobile device On 6 Jul 2015, at 19:55,

Re: [c-nsp] IOS-XR and interface discards (input)

2015-05-15 Thread Andrew Miehs
Discards is probably acl/ control plane acl, full buffers on egress port/ fabric. Not familiar with the platform so cant provide more info. Sent from a mobile device On 15 May 2015, at 01:02, Alexandr Gurbo gu...@golas.ru wrote: Hello, Check you fiber connection. On Thu, 14 May

Re: [c-nsp] Optical - rx power low warning

2015-05-02 Thread Andrew Miehs
10GBASE-ER/EW should only be 40km - ZR would be the longer distance ones. Can you compare it to the light levels seen on the other end of the link? The levels should be approximately equal. Are you sure it is 20 miles and not a little longer? I would not be happy running the link based on these

Re: [c-nsp] One Cat6k/Sup2T is software switching, its identical partner is not

2015-04-20 Thread Andrew Miehs
Ingen jer...@zijndomein.nl wrote: On 04/20/2015 05:28 PM, Andrew Miehs wrote: Have you tried swapping the two interfaces between the chassis? Nope, because it happens on several interfaces in router A, spread across two line cards. Interfaces are in routed mode with several subinterfaces

Re: [c-nsp] One Cat6k/Sup2T is software switching, its identical partner is not

2015-04-20 Thread Andrew Miehs
Have you tried swapping the two interfaces between the chassis? Sent from a mobile device On 21 Apr 2015, at 01:16, Jeroen van Ingen jer...@zijndomein.nl wrote: Hi, Haven't followed this thread too carefully, so I apologize if I duplicated anyone's suggestion: Have you checked for:

Re: [c-nsp] DR location

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 2:45 PM, M K gunner_...@live.com wrote: Hii have a customer requesting to have a DR in another country (other than the primary one)What is the best solution to offer ? He is asking for the same IP address to move to the DR in case of the failure of the primary node is

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 10G gear

2015-01-17 Thread Andrew Miehs
Sent from a mobile device On 18 Jan 2015, at 07:18, Jeremy Bresley b...@brezworks.com wrote: If all you need is 48 ports of 1G TX and 4 10G ports, look at a 4948E. 1U, dual power capable. If you need more 10G ports, we've got a couple of the 4500X (16 and 32-port models, can go to 40

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 10G gear

2015-01-17 Thread Andrew Miehs
Depends what you are trying to do... Do you need full routing tables? If 100k routes are enough you may want to try and look at some trident 2 based kit like the qfx5100 from juniper. --Andrew Sent from a mobile device On 17 Jan 2015, at 19:53, Chris Knipe sav...@savage.za.org wrote: On

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 10G gear

2015-01-17 Thread Andrew Miehs
Sent from a mobile device On 17 Jan 2015, at 20:20, Chris Knipe sav...@savage.za.org wrote: Basic layer II switching and a few VLANs... Nothing fancy required at all Then you really should be looking at trident 1 or trident 2 based platforms. A 48 port 10g switch only uses 1ru and a lot less

Re: [c-nsp] ASR vs 6807

2014-11-27 Thread Andrew Miehs
The 6800 is a l3 switch. The ASR9k is a full blown router. If you need to connect to non Ethernet circuits you will need a router. If you want real qos you will need a router. How far are the DCs apart? Inter dc l2 is never a great idea if it can be avoided. You may also want to look at the

Re: [c-nsp] ASR vs 6807

2014-11-27 Thread Andrew Miehs
Sent from a mobile device On 27 Nov 2014, at 21:26, Simon Lockhart si...@slimey.org wrote: 6807 has a lot of potential (880G per slot), but it's not supported by either Supervisors or Linecards that are available today (current limit is 80G/slot). Always love this statement - yes - you

Re: [c-nsp] Any one ever worked on Cisco 6500 QOS specifically 6503 or 6524(help) needed

2014-10-12 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Ashan, Read the link that Matthew sent you (see below). You will need to understand this to make any changes safely on this platform. You can do QOS on the 6500s - but as the others have said, it is very different to the routers. Each line card is slightly different, so when you have read up

Re: [c-nsp] BGP route filtering question about upstreams

2014-10-07 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Andrew (Andy) Ashley andre...@aware.co.th wrote: Apologies, I should have clarified here: AS200 operates both a domestic and an international BGP routing table. AS300 operates a combined BGP routing table. The scenario is concerned with international routing

Re: [c-nsp] IOS XR 4.3.4, control-plane policing, and NTP

2014-08-02 Thread Andrew Miehs
Still wont protect against the next buffer overflow in ntpd :( Sent from a mobile device On 3 Aug 2014, at 3:40, Daniel Suchy da...@danysek.cz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 LPTS limits (in hardware) ammount of packets from (each) linecard to LC/RP CPU - with

Re: [c-nsp] Height of ASR9010?

2014-07-20 Thread Andrew Miehs
Seeing that it is taller than it is wide - i would go for the 37 inches Sent from a mobile device On 20 Jul 2014, at 15:43, Hank Nussbacher h...@efes.iucc.ac.il wrote: I am trying to determine the height of an ASR9010. One Cisco site says 17.50inch:

Re: [c-nsp] 6500 redundant supervisors and non-NFS aware RIP

2014-07-14 Thread Andrew Miehs
If all your ISPs are connected on the one box, I would recommend buying a second 6500 and splitting the links across both rather than dual sup... Sent from a mobile device On 15 Jul 2014, at 0:38, Jeffrey G. Fitzwater jf...@princeton.edu wrote: We are planning on installing a second

Re: [c-nsp] 40G QSFP to 4*10G SFP+ Breakout Optical Cable

2014-06-18 Thread Andrew Miehs
Was looking at this a while ago - but haven't had a chance to try any of it - no one has bought me any 40G kit yet... From Cisco - for Multimode - Cisco QSFP-40G-SR4 - This terminates on a MPO-12 plug which you can connect to 4x 10G SR Unfortunately Cisco doesn't make a single mode version - but

Re: [c-nsp] 40G QSFP to 4*10G SFP+ Breakout Optical Cable

2014-06-18 Thread Andrew Miehs
As I said, you should be able to use the cisco qspf-40g-sr4 and an mpo-12 to lc breakout cable which you can then connect to sfp-10g-sr s. For single mode you would need an alternative supplier for the qsfp who do something similar for lr - like the plr4 from arista - but no idea if it works

Re: [c-nsp] purpose of asr management port?

2014-05-29 Thread Andrew Miehs
Out of band management network instead of the console port. Sent from a mobile device On 30 May 2014, at 5:04, Mike mike-cisconspl...@tiedyenetworks.com wrote: Hi, The more I look at it, the value of the onboard management port seems to be zero. While I love the idea of out of band and

Re: [c-nsp] Basic BGP Cisco Router

2014-05-26 Thread Andrew Miehs
On 26 May 2014, at 3:58 pm, Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote: If you're looking for something really modest, with little to no opportunity for growth, consider the CSR1000v. Thats actually a pretty cool idea! I keep forgetting that the thing exists. Although - however, once I start

Re: [c-nsp] 7200VXR to ASR upgrade

2014-02-19 Thread Andrew Miehs
If you only need Ethernet look at the ASR1001 - it is fairly cheap and should do what you are after. Andrew On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Adam Greene maill...@webjogger.net wrote: Hi, We have a customer running an old 7204VXR/NPE-G1, with (4) gigabit interfaces, and BGP with two

Re: [c-nsp] Change clock, netflow doesn't change

2014-02-17 Thread Andrew Miehs
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/technologies/tk648/tk362/technologies_white_paper09186a00800a3db9.html NetFlow Version 9 Packet Header Format: Version: The version of NetFlow records exported in this packet; for Version 9, this value is 0x0009 Count: Number of FlowSet

Re: [c-nsp] SPAN destination on oversubscribed module

2014-01-09 Thread Andrew Miehs
If this is for a permanent monitoring solution look at network taps from someone like gigamon or netoptics. Save your SPAN ports for debugging network issues - you can very easily overload line cards and fabric when using SPAN. Andrew On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 2:14 AM, Lukas Tribus

Re: [c-nsp] Re-licensing secondhand Cisco equipment

2014-01-07 Thread Andrew Miehs
If you can't afford new Cisco hardware for production, then find another platform. You NEED to be able to update the software on the boxes. These devices become a danger to the Internet if you don't keep up to date with the security fixes. Running them for a home lab is another story. Regards

Re: [c-nsp] Nexus 2232PP FEX Switch Question

2013-12-10 Thread Andrew Miehs
FEXs arent switches. Think of them as cheap line cards for host connections. If you are staying in the cisco world buy multiple layer 2 n5500s or a 4510 with the appropriate line cards. You could get this to work by disabling spanning tree on the downstream switches, or just ensuring they dont

Re: [c-nsp] 4500X weird issue...

2013-12-07 Thread Andrew Miehs
Your config-register looks to be set wrong... Shouldnt it be 0x2102? There also seems to be an issue with some rommon versions looking at google if config register ends in 2. They suggest trying 2101... Sent from a mobile device On 7 Dec 2013, at 15:25, Jeff Kell jeff-k...@utc.edu wrote: We

Re: [c-nsp] IPv6 in the lab......

2013-11-28 Thread Andrew Miehs
I am just as dense. Why would you need to load the SDM template if you only want the switch to provide L2 connectivity? Sent from a mobile device On 28 Nov 2013, at 19:32, Jeyamurali Sivapathasundaram sjeyamur...@gmail.com wrote: hi To get IPV6 to work, you need to load the correct

Re: [c-nsp] Unicast as Anycast

2013-11-25 Thread Andrew Miehs
Sent from a mobile device On 26 Nov 2013, at 4:30, Gert Doering g...@greenie.muc.de wrote: Hi, On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 04:58:55PM +0100, JJ wrote: I´d love to see my unicast network announced from Miami and Madrid :) !! But I have two different ASN, I don´t know if this is a problem.

Re: [c-nsp] FHRP selection within Nexus

2013-11-13 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:22 AM, Phil Mayers p.may...@imperial.ac.ukwrote: On 13/11/13 17:07, Blake Pfankuch - Mailing List wrote: I am weighing options between HSRP and GLBP knowing that GLBP is Cisco only. This environment will be Cisco only for the foreseeable If you need the

Re: [c-nsp] FHRP selection within Nexus

2013-11-13 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Gert Doering g...@greenie.muc.de wrote: Hi, On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 05:16:15AM +1100, Andrew Miehs wrote: HSRP is dual active on the Nexus, so I would just go with that. How does that work? Have a read of http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral

Re: [c-nsp] FHRP selection within Nexus

2013-11-13 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Gert Doering g...@greenie.muc.de wrote: forwarding to the active HSRP device and only the active HSRP interface answers ARP request doesn't particularily sound active-active to me :-) *This* is what happens on any 6500 that does HSRP on a SVI... GLBP is

[c-nsp] C6500 - linkChange

2013-11-11 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, I have a pair of C6500s running s72033-ipservicesk9-mz.122-33.SXI3.bin and am seeing the linkChange counters slowly increasing (roughly 300 per day) on some of the interfaces on my WS-X6748-GE-TX line cards. Has anyone seen this before? The boxes have an uptime of almost 3 years. Thanks

Re: [c-nsp] VTP problem between remote PoP

2013-10-31 Thread Andrew Miehs
You are probably not going to like my answer, but I would use vtp mode transparent. I think you are sitting on a time bomb otherwise Sent from a mobile device On 31 Oct 2013, at 19:30, Andrey Teslenko teslenko.and...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, We observed problem with VTP. VTP

Re: [c-nsp] Best practice WLC 5508 public guest network?

2013-10-21 Thread Andrew Miehs
You might want to think about using a second set of WLCs as anchor controllers if the same APs are being used for Internal networks. On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Roger Wiklund roger.wikl...@gmail.comwrote: Hi. I'm setting up a wireless guest network with dual stack. My concern is

Re: [c-nsp] SC to LC converter

2013-10-14 Thread Andrew Miehs
Why not just http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002DG18MI ? But honestly - I would install a patch panel on either end and run proper fixed installation type fibre. Sent from a mobile device On 15 Oct 2013, at 10:01, Jon Lewis jle...@lewis.org wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Kenny Kant wrote:

Re: [c-nsp] VSS and just one 10GE link

2013-10-04 Thread Andrew Miehs
I would recommend you use both ports on your supervisor for your VSS link. On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Robert Hass robh...@gmail.com wrote: Can I configure VSS on two 6500 using just one 10GE port ? Is it possible ? There was an issue on the SUP 720-10G (supposedly corrected now) that

Re: [c-nsp] WiSM: base-ap-count licence installation problems

2013-09-19 Thread Andrew Miehs
Carriage return linefeed problem? Did you copy paste this file via Windows at all? Regards Andrew On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Matti Saarinen mjsaa...@cc.helsinki.fiwrote: We bought a licence pack allowing 100 additinal APs to join WiSM. Now, the licence refuses to install and I

Re: [c-nsp] noc error

2013-09-08 Thread Andrew Miehs
Are you sure you are monitoring the correct interface? Snmp oid possibly changed since interface added? Sent from a mobile device On 08/09/2013, at 20:51, hamid tavoli tavol...@yahoo.com wrote: in monitoring software such as prtg , solarwinds , ... (snmp based software ) , for one shutdown

Re: [c-nsp] 6500, 7600 or ASR

2013-08-30 Thread Andrew Miehs
/2013 00:23, Andrew Miehs wrote: You can also get a 1001 with 4 additional 1g interfaces - plus it still has a spa module slot you can, but they won't buy you any more forwarding capacity. The ASR1001 has a non-upgradeable ESP5. I.e. the 4 additional GE interfaces won't get you much

Re: [c-nsp] 6500, 7600 or ASR

2013-08-29 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:34 PM, CiscoNSP List cisconsp_l...@hotmail.comwrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 06:58:17PM +1030, CiscoNSP List wrote: Have the following requirements: Fully redundant, dual power, dual supervisor, multiple line cards for redundancy How many ports of which

Re: [c-nsp] 6500, 7600 or ASR

2013-08-29 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Daniel Roesen d...@cluenet.de wrote: ASR1001 has no redundancy except power. Deploying a pair of ASR1001 might be an option, depending on the integration scenario and would provide higher availability and fault isolation than a fully redundant system.

Re: [c-nsp] 6500, 7600 or ASR

2013-08-29 Thread Andrew Miehs
You can also get a 1001 with 4 additional 1g interfaces - plus it still has a spa module slot Sent from a mobile device On 30/08/2013, at 9:03, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 29/08/2013 23:51, CiscoNSP List wrote: We should be looking at either a pair of asr1001's (With 16G

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco trunk port startup delay

2013-07-16 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Shanawaz Batcha ismath.sh...@gmail.comwrote: Is this as good as it gets or is there a trick to perhaps get this time further down? Have you tried moving to fibre rather than copper? ___ cisco-nsp mailing list

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

2013-07-06 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote: On Tuesday, March 05, 2013 03:23:43 PM Saku Ytti wrote: Not at all. But adding MPLS to customer would increase our exposure. At $previous_job, this was a serious consideration, mostly because the customers were

Re: [c-nsp] Sup-720 fabric failures

2013-07-05 Thread Andrew Miehs
No - Kelvin :) Sent from a mobile device On 05/07/2013, at 17:53, Phil Mayers p.may...@imperial.ac.uk wrote: On 07/05/2013 12:44 AM, Robert Williams wrote: Hi, Got a weird persistent issue which I'd like to know if anyone else has seen. We have a site with a 6503-E chassis, with a

Re: [c-nsp] VSS

2013-07-05 Thread Andrew Miehs
Regardless - I would strongly recommend moving away from 12.2.33sxi4 as I think there was a serious issue which cause 4a to be released a week later On 05/07/2013, at 10:51 PM, Harry Hambi harry.ha...@bbc.co.uk wrote: Hi, Thanx for your comments.had a mainenance window early this

Re: [c-nsp] VSS

2013-07-05 Thread Andrew Miehs
-Original Message- From: Andrew Miehs [mailto:and...@2sheds.de] Sent: 05 July 2013 14:12 To: Harry Hambi Cc: 'chris stand'; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] VSS Regardless - I would strongly recommend moving away from 12.2.33sxi4 as I think there was a serious issue

Re: [c-nsp] SDR//Logical Routers

2013-06-28 Thread Andrew Miehs
VRF Lite ? Sent from a mobile device On 28/06/2013, at 20:04, Dhamija Amit amiitdham...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Could you please let me know if ASR - 1K Supports the concept of Logical Routers or SDR ?? Or else is there any seprate mechanism to isolate the routings between two domains

Re: [c-nsp] New Catalyst 6k chassis

2013-06-26 Thread Andrew Miehs
The 6708 supports up to 880 Gb per slot - whatever that means Sent from a mobile device On 27/06/2013, at 5:10, Gert Doering g...@greenie.muc.de wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 04:38:16PM +0100, Phil Mayers wrote: Can someone confirm rumors about the new Catalyst 6k chassis ? The

Re: [c-nsp] New Catalyst 6k chassis

2013-06-26 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Justin M. Streiner strei...@cluebyfour.org wrote: It just seems like the new 6k is positioned to poach prospective customers from the (arguably) higher-margin Nexus 7k product line. Looks like we will start needing to be careful with names to differentiate

Re: [c-nsp] N5K (vm.drop_caches)

2013-05-14 Thread Andrew Miehs
Google is your friend... https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt drop_caches Writing to this will cause the kernel to drop clean caches, dentries and inodes from memory, causing that memory to become free. To free pagecache: echo 1 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches To free

Re: [c-nsp] N5K (vm.drop_caches)

2013-05-14 Thread Andrew Miehs
:44 PM, Andrew Miehs and...@2sheds.de wrote: Google is your friend... https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt drop_caches Writing to this will cause the kernel to drop clean caches, dentries and inodes from memory, causing that memory to become free. To free pagecache

Re: [c-nsp] BGP advertisement

2013-05-04 Thread Andrew Miehs
I would recommend cbt nuggets - they will help you with your ccnp exam. Sent from a mobile device On 04/05/2013, at 22:01, M K gunner_...@live.com wrote: Hi , I have a router in ASN 100 which have peerings with AS 200 and AS 300Now , I established a new peering with AS # 400 and I want to

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Switch Packet Buffering Matrix?

2013-05-03 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 02/05/2013 13:21, Andrew Miehs wrote: For iSCSI I would be looking at 45xx, 49xx, 65xx or Nexus 5k or 7k. 6500 lan cards also have quite poor buffers. Better to use a system with larger shared buffers rather than

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Switch Packet Buffering Matrix?

2013-05-02 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Skeeve Stevens ske...@eintellego.netwrote: I am doing some iSCSI implementations are the moment and are looking at which switch models are best for different iSCSI rollouts we’re doing. ** ** I am wanting to know which 29xx and 35xx/37xx series switches

Re: [c-nsp] Config template utility?

2013-04-17 Thread Andrew Miehs
I use the template toolkit perl module. ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/

Re: [c-nsp] Slow Inter-Vlan traffic

2013-04-17 Thread Andrew Miehs
On 17/04/2013, at 21:21, Sébastien MALHEIRO s.mal...@gmail.com wrote: We’re having some issues with inter-vlan traffic going pretty slow on 6504-E chassis working in VSS (VS-S720-10G / WS-X6748-GE-TX), running IOS version 12.2(33)SXH5. This seems like a very old version - especially if you

Re: [c-nsp] data center/mpls/vpls

2013-04-15 Thread Andrew Miehs
On 13/04/2013, at 12:57 AM, Aaron aar...@gvtc.com wrote: I would like mpls capability in it. Does anyone say that mpls/vpls/l3vpn/l2vpn is good to top of rack data center level? Seems like more flexibility and strength to me with using all those nice mpls features. Why do you want MPLS on

Re: [c-nsp] data center/mpls/vpls

2013-04-15 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Aaron aar...@gvtc.com wrote: Q1 - Why do you want MPLS on the top of rack switch? A1 - L2VPN's...L3VPN's... Yes, 10 feet away is my Cisco ASR9006 MPLS PE edge box, so yes I could simply do 802.1q from tor switch to that 9k and then jump into mpls LxVPN's

Re: [c-nsp] 7200's (LNS) HSRP and VRF's

2013-04-15 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Jimbo Jones jimbojones...@outlook.comwrote: The client LAN interfaces are in VRF's (As are the auth'd DSL tails) - We need the 7200's to exchange routing information for these VRF's (So run MP-BGP on the link between the 7200's), but if we do this, the

Re: [c-nsp] FW: EIGRP CSC

2013-04-10 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Mohammad, ASCII Art is your friend... - Clicking on links in emails isn't my idea of a good time. More than happy to help, but please draw diagrams etc in ASCII. Regards Andrew On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Mohammad Khalil eng_m...@hotmail.comwrote: Now , R5 R6 and R9 are the

Re: [c-nsp] Solution for 'DR' Site

2013-04-09 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Sanjeev Maniks midoa...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks for your comment. At the moment the bank is already mirroring the data between the primary and DR sites and have now requested that we not provide any communication channel through our network for this purpose.

Re: [c-nsp] EIGRP in CSC

2013-04-09 Thread Andrew Miehs
Dont you need to change both sides of the ce ce connection to eigrp? Sent from a mobile device On 09/04/2013, at 18:44, M K gunner_...@live.com wrote: Hi I designed a topology and configured OSPF between PE and carrier CE , and RIPv2 between CE - CEAll is working fine , when I changed the

Re: [c-nsp] EIGRP in CSC

2013-04-09 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Adam Vitkovsky adam.vitkov...@swan.skwrote: Hi I guess the problem is you are trying to redistribute routes originated in RIP from MP-BGP to EIGRP. Where did that come from? -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net Hi I designed a

Re: [c-nsp] Solution for 'DR' Site

2013-04-08 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Oliver Garraux oli...@g.garraux.net wrote: If it meets their needs, the simplest way would probably be to use separate IP space at each site, with DNS based load balancing to fail their applications over to the DR site. DNS has nothing to do with load

Re: [c-nsp] Switching Loops

2013-03-25 Thread Andrew Miehs
Spanning tree is automatically enabled on the Cisco switches- you don't need to configure anything. Alternatively, you can use a port-channel but you would need to configure that. HP Procurve switches come with spanning tree disabled. On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:12 PM, M K gunner_...@live.com

Re: [c-nsp] VPLS PE Redundancy with Supervisor Engine 2T

2013-03-21 Thread Andrew Miehs
Sorry - too early in the morning - ignore my last post - thought you were referring to VSS on Sup2T - didnt see the VPLS. :( On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Andrew Miehs and...@2sheds.de wrote: Hi Sander, It definitely works. A colleague of mine installed one two weeks ago. I would

Re: [c-nsp] VPLS PE Redundancy with Supervisor Engine 2T

2013-03-21 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Sander, It definitely works. A colleague of mine installed one two weeks ago. I would recommend that you use both ports on the supervisor rather than on a line card for the VSL (Link). The 6908 should work for VSL, the 6704 won't - but it can be used for other traffic. Regards Andrew On

Re: [c-nsp] VRF-Lite route-target import or export

2013-03-19 Thread Andrew Miehs
I can't answer which way is better, but here is another example of how to do it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=qa6sAyoLpyY Short version of what is described in the video - this way keeps you only need to update your other vrfs rather than the common one. Seems quite neat

Re: [c-nsp] VSS to vPC - vPC to Etherchannel

2013-03-19 Thread Andrew Miehs
Can the n5k, n7k do pagp+ yet? Sent from a mobile device On 20/03/2013, at 14:25, Ian Henderson i...@ianh.net.au wrote: On 17/03/2013, at 11:23 AM, Jeff Kell jeff-k...@utc.edu wrote: We had been doing PAgP on Cisco-to-Cisco, but leaning toward LACP today for anything that supports it.

Re: [c-nsp] VSS to vPC - vPC to Etherchannel

2013-03-16 Thread Andrew Miehs
to switch and lacp from switch to server so thats what I am putting in. Any thoughts on why the 2960's ports would turn up even with the 5010's ports shut down? Joe On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Andrew Miehs and...@2sheds.de wrote: How did you configure the port channels? I assume you have

Re: [c-nsp] VSS to vPC - vPC to Etherchannel

2013-03-16 Thread Andrew Miehs
The cisco documentation recommends static as the recovery times are supposedly faster due to no negotiation. Not really sure if the downsides make up for that though. Sent from a mobile device On 17/03/2013, at 11:31, Joseph Hardeman jwharde...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gert, I was thinking

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