Re: [c-nsp] ASR9K IPv6 Scaling limit

2016-09-15 Thread Chris Evans
Sorry, guess I wasn't clear.. I mean IPv6 neighbors as in layer 2 clients.. Not IPv6 routing neighbors. On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 3:14 PM, brad dreisbach wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 02:57:37PM -0500, Chris Evans wrote: > >> Does anyone know the maximum amount of IPv6 n

[c-nsp] ASR9K IPv6 Scaling limit

2016-09-15 Thread Chris Evans
Does anyone know the maximum amount of IPv6 neighbors an ASR9K platform (don't care which modules) can support? Have a requirement to support in upwards 200K ipv6 neighbors for a centralized WLAN deployment at a large university. 200K is the requirement due to link local, and multiple global IPv6

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Nexus as MetroE switch?

2015-11-02 Thread Chris Evans
I would avoid TRILL going forward IMHO.. Most vendors have abandoned future investment with it. Plus there are limitations with the Broadcom Trident asics where you can't decap & route natively (without doing some special packet looping to workaround this limitation).. On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:0

Re: [c-nsp] power requirement for WS-X614E-GE-45AT in reverse POE mode

2015-04-01 Thread Chris Evans
This is the worst day of the year on the internet :) On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Łukasz Bromirski wrote: > > > On 01 Apr 2015, at 16:30, Joe Loiacono wrote: > > > > "cisco-nsp" wrote on 04/01/2015 > 09:04:04 AM: > > > > > From: Łukasz Bromirski > > > > > > One of the local data centres i

Re: [c-nsp] slow convergence on edge BGP routers

2015-02-27 Thread Chris Evans
If this is a test environment you could put policies in place to influence traffic to come in your EDGE2, but meanwhile for outbound still have traffic going out EDGE1. Then fail EDGE1 and see how long it takes.. That'll give you an answer if its inbound or outbound that is taking the 15 seconds.

Re: [c-nsp] OT: Wireless 2.4ghz

2015-02-04 Thread Chris Evans
I come across cheaper NICs out there that actually support 5ghz, but don't support the DFS channels! Heck even Google with its Nexus devices don't enable DFS in the OS even though the NICs can do it.. DFS is costlier to implement so they go the cheap route. On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Chris

Re: [c-nsp] MST vs. RPVST+ - Question to scalability

2015-01-15 Thread Chris Evans
Yes you can put it all in one domain if you'd like. Rather large domain IMHO, but is possible depending on how your topology is laid out. There is a finite limit of how many devices can be cascaded. When they speak of region they're talking about MST region. With MST you need to have the configura

Re: [c-nsp] Full Duplex

2014-11-20 Thread Chris Evans
Marketing folks love to use half-duplex when speaking about backplane fabric speed.. Typically they don't do that on the ports themselves, typically.. On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Jay Hennigan wrote: > On 11/18/14, 2:16 AM, M K wrote: > > Hi all , we were arguing about the full duplex FE in

Re: [c-nsp] Old Cisco VXR

2014-08-27 Thread Chris Evans
for some reason i seem to remember that if you have the i/o modules with console in them that it disables the onboard console on the g1/g2 engines.. Been a while since i've touched one of these though. On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Scott Granados wrote: > If you have the old 25 pin mod tap

Re: [c-nsp] Is the Nexus 3064PQ usable ?

2014-06-12 Thread Chris Evans
Revenue just gets dumped into different BU buckets and each has its own comp plan for the sales reps. It matters to them because it affects their pocket books :) On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Blake Dunlap wrote: > Cisco tries to tell us the same thing. We think it has a lot to do with the >

Re: [c-nsp] PAUSE vs PFC for loss-less traffic?

2014-03-09 Thread Chris Evans
Really it comes down to the fact that you can pause all traffic except for your iSCSI (if identified properly) and FCoE traffic.. With PAUSE frames everything gets paused on that link, including your storage traffic. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Mathias Sundman wrote: > There is a lot of

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Switch Portfolio Miss

2013-09-12 Thread Chris Evans
Have you guys ever looked at the HP 5900 series?? HP's 5900, Arista and Cisco 3K's all use the same broadcom trident+ chipsets. HP 5900 comes in a few models, one which is a 48 port SFP+ with 4xQSFP+ that is 21K list. They also have a 48 port Copper 10gig version with 4QSFP+ that lists at 21K too.

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

2013-06-26 Thread Chris Evans
New Nexus 7710 and 7718 chassis and F3 line modules announced too.. On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Phil Mayers wrote: > On 09/06/13 20:58, Rinse Kloek wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Can someone confirm rumors about the new Catalyst 6k chassis ? >> The new Catalyst 6807-XL chassis will be able to scale

Re: [c-nsp] Fabricpath and L3 on the same line card

2013-03-21 Thread Chris Evans
t; > > -Original Message- > From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto: > cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Chris Evans > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 11:57 AM > To: cisco-nsp > Subject: [c-nsp] Fabricpath and L3 on the same line card > > Can anyone t

[c-nsp] Fabricpath and L3 on the same line card

2013-03-21 Thread Chris Evans
Can anyone tell me if Cisco F2/F2e line modules can run Fabricpath and L3 (SVI's) on the same line module. Is it line rate as well or does it proxy through an ASIC burning ports, etc. Is an M1 module required? Someone has told me it cannot, but I believe it can. Are there any limitations with it?

Re: [c-nsp] End to end keepalive over QinQ provider

2013-02-07 Thread Chris Evans
ther.net > [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Chris Evans > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 8:11 PM > To: Tim Jackson > Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] End to end keepalive over QinQ provider > > Agreed.. L3 is the answer.. This is actual

Re: [c-nsp] End to end keepalive over QinQ provider

2013-02-05 Thread Chris Evans
Halliday < > ross.halli...@wtccommunications.ca> wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp- > > > boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Chris Evans > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 1

Re: [c-nsp] End to end keepalive over QinQ provider

2013-02-05 Thread Chris Evans
to end notifications that will cause an interface to go down or be taken out of forwarding. With LACP you can do this because the ports will debundle. I was hoping that CFM would take the path out of service, but I don't think that is the case. Thoughts? On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Chris

Re: [c-nsp] End to end keepalive over QinQ provider

2013-02-05 Thread Chris Evans
Oh really... I was reading on CFM, but though it used the EOAM DMACs... let me check into that more! thanks! Anyone have details on using CFM? On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:10 AM, Adam Vitkovsky wrote: > Have you tried CFM? It uses standard Ethernet frames, though CCMs are mcast > frames > > > adam

[c-nsp] End to end keepalive over QinQ provider

2013-02-04 Thread Chris Evans
I'm running into a situation where I have a QinQ provider who doesn't do BPDU tunneling for protocols like OAM, LACP, etc.. Besides using an EEM script along with SLA, are there any other built in protocols that could be utilized to determine L2 connectivity end to end? I'm just using standard Cat

Re: [c-nsp] Making SUP720 cope better under BGP load

2012-12-07 Thread Chris Evans
In the past my company has ran into these issues. We helped it some by doing a hold-queue of 4096 on the interfaces and enabling jumbo frames where possible. It sounds like you're just running into a CPU issue though, which is one reason we moved away from the 6500/7600 platforms for this use case

[c-nsp] Maximum number of VRF's on the 7K and ASR9K

2012-11-20 Thread Chris Evans
Can anyone tell me the maximum number of VRFs supported on the 7K and ASR platforms?? I am working on a technical review of vendors and am looking for that information. I believe the 7K is 1000 (minus the internal vrfs) ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco

Re: [c-nsp] proxy arp?

2012-10-13 Thread Chris Evans
I haven't worked with the ASA/PIX line in a while, but if you're doing static NAT entries it requires proxy arp to work. Essentially needed anytime you have NAT entries for IP's other than what is assigned to the psychical interfaces. The documentation was clear on the feature years ago, i'd check

Re: [c-nsp] traceroute shows mpls labels...how?

2012-08-22 Thread Chris Evans
Ahh good. I can't exactly remember what I ran into. Thx for clearing that up! On Aug 22, 2012 3:56 PM, wrote: > > Also this depends on vendor too. IIRC junos uses udp for its trace > routing > > and ios uses icmp.Meaning that if you did traceroute from a cisco box > > going over a juniper

Re: [c-nsp] traceroute shows mpls labels...how?

2012-08-22 Thread Chris Evans
t smart enough to render it on the cli output…. I would think that > wireshark on windows would tell me if it is or isn’t seeing those > extensions with the label info > > ** ** > > Aaron > > ** ** > > *From:* Chris Evans [mailto:chrisccnpsp...@gmail.com] &g

Re: [c-nsp] traceroute shows mpls labels...how?

2012-08-22 Thread Chris Evans
Also this depends on vendor too. IIRC junos uses udp for its trace routing and ios uses icmp.Meaning that if you did traceroute from a cisco box going over a juniper network the labels wouldn't show and vice versa. You brought up something I was 100% suee about a few years ago but those brai

Re: [c-nsp] IPv6 domain reply Cisco 6509 IPv4 address

2012-08-17 Thread Chris Evans
Google is one of the few who enabled entries for their main website pages on the v6 go live day a few months back... That is why it's doing it. There are some other sites that will be affected too for you. Hth. On Aug 17, 2012 8:19 AM, "Chris Lane" wrote: > to follow up, once i added v6

Re: [c-nsp] Qos Sup2T disable trust globally ? ports untrusted by default ?

2012-07-13 Thread Chris Evans
IIRC On the cat6k if you have mls qos disabled globally it will trust. If you enable qos i believe it will rewrite based on your mapping tables. On Jul 13, 2012 8:38 AM, "Blake Dunlap" wrote: > If you look at the documentation for the Sup2T it does actually specify > default trust when I looke

Re: [c-nsp] Overlapping Subnet Issue - Gateway IP Resides in Vendor Assigned Public IP Range

2012-07-09 Thread Chris Evans
You could have your isp assign a transit ip subnet for the link and then out your ips internal your border router. Another thing you could do static nats if the first option isn't available. On Jul 9, 2012 7:50 PM, "Spencer Barnes" wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to move to a new ISP. Our old one

Re: [c-nsp] WRR Confusion on 6748 blades

2012-06-27 Thread Chris Evans
This is where I ask the question whether you need QoS and its queues or not? At my old employer we never enabled QoS on our 6500s in the data centers because of this buffer carving issue. When you disable QoS on the 6500 platform it lets the dscp/802.1p bits pass, which we were fine with. We never

Re: [c-nsp] WRR Confusion on 6748 blades

2012-06-26 Thread Chris Evans
Tac is right. This is a downfall of ethernet switching qos. The buffers are carved up for the queues. My advice is to disable qos altogether or remap all traffic and buffers back to one queue. On Jun 26, 2012 4:22 PM, "John Neiberger" wrote: > I'm getting conflicting information about how WRR sc

[c-nsp] cable/dsl/ftth policing, traffic shaping or something else??

2012-06-19 Thread Chris Evans
Question for you service provider folks. How do cable modems, dsl, ftth, etc limit bandwidth? I believe that everything is limited at the customer edge demarq device, performing bandwidth limits on a central network device would be too costly to do. Do the CE devices use a form of traffic shaping

Re: [c-nsp] 3750 stack

2012-06-19 Thread Chris Evans
Unfortunately the answer is most likely yes. Is this device a router? Does it have many routes coming into it from a routing process? Any spanning tree loops going on. Before you reboot it, I would try to isolate it from the network so it's not learning routes. You would hopefully get access ba

Re: [c-nsp] gns3 - router/switch types supported

2012-06-18 Thread Chris Evans
Development has stopped for dynamips the last I heard. This was because all newer platforms are going to a licensed model and more asic based. Emulating newer hardware is much more complex. On Jun 18, 2012 11:43 AM, "Aaron" wrote: > Do y'all know if GNS3 (0.8.2) only supports the routers and swit

Re: [c-nsp] Nexus network Design - Switching LOOP

2012-03-13 Thread Chris Evans
Switch the 3750 to use flex links. That way you can have redundancy without causing a loop. On Mar 13, 2012 9:50 AM, "Ryan West" wrote: > N2k's do not run spanning-tree and will block ports if a bpdu is detected. > You can disable spanning tree on those ports, but your 3750 will be flat at > that

Re: [c-nsp] SSH issue

2012-02-23 Thread Chris Evans
Have a stored key on your ssh client already for that hostnamr or ip? On Feb 23, 2012 8:59 AM, "Chris Lane" wrote: > running a 7600 with s72033-advipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-33.SXH7 > actually just installed device, added crypto key rsa ~ all normal here, > noting unusual to report. > but, oddly thi

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco EFA progress

2012-02-23 Thread Chris Evans
Make sure you notify your field team who is responsible for shipping the device that EFA is sent to a different address.. We've accidentally sent EFA request to normal RMA depots and that was not fun trying to track the gear down.. On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Gmail wrote: > Ok. Before the R

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco EFA progress

2012-02-23 Thread Chris Evans
I've always gotten it from our account team. On Feb 23, 2012 6:02 AM, "许虎" wrote: > Hey Guys, > > Is anyone know the EFA progress of Cisco RMA? > > The customer need us to do the analysis, they need the EFA report. > > Thanks and Regards, > Hu Xu > ___

Re: [c-nsp] side comment on VSS vs 7Ks

2012-01-21 Thread Chris Evans
Inside of Cisco brand maybe not. Outside of Cisco definitely possible. On Jan 21, 2012 5:02 PM, "chris stand" wrote: > > > > (... and this is reason #1 why we are not using VSS) > > > > gert > > -- > > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! > > We have two data centers, one with VSS one w

Re: [c-nsp] Recommendation for small GBit router

2011-12-16 Thread Chris Evans
There are 'other' vendors out there besides Cisco who's switches provide SFlow which will give you information you're looking for as compared to netflow, assuming your collector supports it. These same vendor/switches also can do the routing as you're asking about for the low cost you're looking fo

Re: [c-nsp] N7k as Enterprise core MPLS P/PE

2011-09-29 Thread Chris Evans
Ask and you shall receive. Hint On Sep 29, 2011 3:41 PM, "Tim Durack" wrote: > We are currently using the C6K in this role. The N7K is looking like > the logical replacement. > > If Cisco produced a 10/100/1000/PoE FEX, and upgraded the N7K to > support 100s of FEX on a chassis pair, we could

Re: [c-nsp] Regain CLI access with snmp sets?

2011-09-08 Thread Chris Evans
I've done this before by tftping a replacement configuration file. You can use snmp to trigger the router to download a file. On Sep 8, 2011 5:44 PM, "Mike" wrote: > Hello, > > I am sure this can be done and am calling on my fellows to help light > the way! > > I have a cisco 2970 switch newly ins

Re: [c-nsp] How to terminate 100.000 IPsec VPN clients?

2011-09-06 Thread Chris Evans
Checked the 5585 limits? It's supposed to blow a 5580 out of the water... On paper. On Sep 6, 2011 8:06 PM, "P C" wrote: > Off topic: anyone have a VPN load generator? I've always had a > useful application for such. > > Anyways, if you use cisco products and you need RA VPN, your best bet > is p

Re: [c-nsp] Spanning-Tree Cisco(Nexus 7k) x Juniper

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Evans
What issues are you seeing? One thing to check is that on cisco devices you should specify the long version of costing. Cisco hasn't updated their default to match the newer rfc out there. This alone could be causing your problems. On Aug 30, 2011 10:47 AM, "Alessandro Braga" wrote: > Dear all, >

Re: [c-nsp] QoS: Shaping and Queueing on different Levels (physical IF, sub IF)

2011-08-25 Thread Chris Evans
Research h-qos. You have to make. Master service policy and apply shaping to it. Within that policy you call your other qos service policy as a sub procedure essentially. On Aug 25, 2011 7:08 AM, "Hendrik Kahmann" wrote: > Hello! > > I am just working on a QoS configuration on Cisco 19xx and 29x

Re: [c-nsp] 7206VXR NPE-G1 Upgrade from 12.4 to 15.0 High CPU

2011-08-22 Thread Chris Evans
Did you back rev the saved configuration too? Maybe an option has been turned on by default in 15.x? On Aug 22, 2011 4:16 PM, "Chris Gotstein" wrote: > Backed down to SRE, but still seeing high utilization on the IP Input > process. Have no idea why this is happening now, thought it was due to > t

Re: [c-nsp] A bit of 6513-E confusion

2011-08-17 Thread Chris Evans
You need the sup2t to be able to get dual fabric connections in the upper slots I believe. On Aug 17, 2011 2:58 PM, "Drew Weaver" wrote: > With a 6513-E would you be able run it with: > > 2xSUP720-3BXLs > 10xWS-6748(/w DFCs) > 1x WS-6708? > > I don't need the 10/100/1000 ports to be "line rate" ei

Re: [c-nsp] Pros/Cons to *disabling* mac-address aging-time <> "routed-mac"

2011-08-15 Thread Chris Evans
Leave it on. There are reasons for it that I don't have at home with me. But its needed for span and other things to stop unicast flooding. On Aug 16, 2011 12:03 AM, "Randy" wrote: > I have inherited a setup: > - cat6509E's running IOS: various flavors for SXF. In the process of upgrading to a sta

Re: [c-nsp] Brocade VS Cisco

2011-08-11 Thread Chris Evans
Depends on what you mean by brocade. I bet you are looking at the foundry gear. The Foundry hardware is actually really nice. The real brocade switches based on fos I would throw in the trash can (at least based on the brocade 8k) from years ago.. I'd say that the foundry gear is on par with cisco

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Nexus 2248TP interface down/inactive

2011-07-21 Thread Chris Evans
Inactive usually means the vlan isn't built locally. On Jul 21, 2011 8:33 PM, "Renelson Panosky" wrote: > I am working in this interface 2248TP some of the interface are showing down/inactive. My svi on the core are up/up. I think it maybe a spanning-tree issue but I am not sure. can anyone help ?

Re: [c-nsp] Different Supervisor in 7609 + High Availability (SSO + NSF + GR)

2011-07-17 Thread Chris Evans
You will need to reboot due to enable the new pfc mode anyways. On Jul 17, 2011 5:36 PM, "Matlock, Kenneth L" wrote: > If the 2nd one will even come up, it will almost definitely come up in RPR mode instead of SSO. So you're going to take a hit on all your linecards when trying the switchover. (My

Re: [c-nsp] Cat4500 High CPU with Multicast Stream

2011-07-13 Thread Chris Evans
Check the ttl on the multicast stream. A ttl of 1 will cause it to hit the CPU of your first hop router. On Jul 13, 2011 8:02 AM, "Antonio Soares" wrote: > Hello group, > > I have a customer with a few 3560/3750's and one 4500/SUP5 acting as the > core switch. > > For some reason, when a user star

Re: [c-nsp] Installation of a PA-MC-2T1 in a 7206

2011-07-05 Thread Chris Evans
Its a multichannel interface. You need tto go into controller 5/x and define it. On Jul 5, 2011 4:08 PM, "Josh Baird" wrote: > Forgive the silly question.. > > I just installed a PA-MC-2T1 in a 7206. Logs confirm: > > *Jul 5 19:17:20.519: %OIR-6-INSCARD: Card inserted in slot 5, interfaces > admin

Re: [c-nsp] Replacing a 7206VXR w/ NPE-G1 with Sup720-3BXL w/ WS-X6408A-GBIC

2011-06-29 Thread Chris Evans
Its all forwarded by the supervisor. I wouldn't be worried about that too much. I'd be more worried about the full internet table being on the 6500. It will probably be okay but 6500s aren't great high scale routers. They don't have much CPU power. On Jun 29, 2011 11:17 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > Our

Re: [c-nsp] High CPU issues on 6513 with LACP

2011-06-28 Thread Chris Evans
Upgrade code. That will fix it. Known bug from olden days. On Jun 28, 2011 3:54 PM, "Christopher J. Wargaski" wrote: > Greetings-- > > I recently installed a stack of HP (H3C) switches in a closet and > connected them with an LACP link to a 6513 running 12.2(17d)SXB11a. (Yes, > that is circa 2006,

Re: [c-nsp] L3 Switch as a BGP Gateway

2011-06-27 Thread Chris Evans
And a cat 6k/7600 will take forever to reconverge with large tables. On Jun 27, 2011 10:10 PM, "Jeff Kell" wrote: > On 6/27/2011 2:59 PM, Jason Greenberg wrote: >> Can someone advise me as to why a 3750 L3 Switch (Metro Model) wouldn't outperform a 7300 series router as a multi-homed BGP gateway?

Re: [c-nsp] Nexus 2k - host ports

2011-06-24 Thread Chris Evans
You can do it. Just have to worry about loops. Spanning tree isn't supported on the fex ports. On Jun 24, 2011 1:38 AM, "Thomason, Simon" wrote: > Hey All, > > Just doing a little research at the moment for some design work and I found out that you can not plug a switch into a nexus2k as all ports

Re: [c-nsp] Upgrading Software using TFTP server in a Nexus 7000

2011-06-12 Thread Chris Evans
Make sure that your source ping IP is the same as the tftp source IP? On Jun 12, 2011 4:33 PM, "Renelson Panosky" wrote: > I am trying to upgrade the IOS in a new Nexus 7000 that i am working on. I > keep getting this crazy error: TFTP get operation failed:connection timed > out. > > I can ping my

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco N5548P with N2248TP Fex not found

2011-06-03 Thread Chris Evans
Configuration looks right. You have vpc configured but are you using it with the fex or are they single homed? You also have a port channel configured but are only using one physical link? If the fex are attached cross 5k you need vpc commands on the port channels. Physical layout would help u

Re: [c-nsp] CIsco 5548P with 2248TP

2011-06-02 Thread Chris Evans
Post your configuration. We've rolled quite a few of them. On Jun 2, 2011 2:53 PM, "Renelson Panosky" wrote: > Have anybody here is running Cisco Nexus 5548P with 2248TP. I configured > everything but i still can't see the Cisco Nexus 2248TP. Can anyone help me > with this ? >

Re: [c-nsp] FWSM 6500 SVI intervlan routing

2011-05-30 Thread Chris Evans
Do you have nat 0 statements on the configuration? On May 30, 2011 6:11 AM, "Muhammad Asif Rao" wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I'm getting problem for intervlan connectivity over fwsm, 3 vlans being > linked to fwsm 10(dmz1/50),20(dmz2/20) & 30(outside). Intervlan routing > required b/w 10 & 20 vlan whi

Re: [c-nsp] Virtualized services for Internal and Internet / DMZ

2011-05-28 Thread Chris Evans
We stay away from it. Physical security is the best security. All depends if you are willing to accept the risk it now. On May 28, 2011 8:30 AM, "chris stand" wrote: > Is anyone using shared VMware or HyperV environments for your Internal and > also External facing services on the same boxes ? >

Re: [c-nsp] BGP communities and VRFs...

2011-05-18 Thread Chris Evans
Vrf uses Bgp extended communities. Not standard. So no.. Hope this is your question. On May 18, 2011 2:07 PM, "Jeff Kell" wrote: > If you have VRF-enabled a router (well, a 6500), does this affect BGP community > processing at all? (Suspecting community overlap with VRF route distinguishers?) >

Re: [c-nsp] Core: 2x4948 or 1x4503

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Evans
I'd go with the dual 4948 solution vs a single box... On May 4, 2011 8:54 AM, "Dan Letkeman" wrote: > Hello, > > We are looking at replacing our core switches (2x3560G). I'm looking > at a few options, but the ones that interest me the most is the > 4948E-E, and the 4503-E w/two 48 Port line cards

Re: [c-nsp] Is this QoS config possible in 7600 with WS-X6724-SFP?

2011-03-26 Thread Chris Evans
No. You need to research lan qos. That card is a LAN card. On Mar 26, 2011 6:56 PM, "Peter Olsson" wrote: > We usually use this QoS config to give voice traffic priority: > class-map match-all VOICE > match ip dscp ef > policy-map BRANCH-WAN-EDGE_child > class VOICE > priority percent 10 > class

Re: [c-nsp] Sup720, multicast bothers the CPU

2011-03-25 Thread Chris Evans
Also check the ttl if your packets. If its 1 it will always hit the CPU regardless of group address. On Mar 25, 2011 6:01 AM, "Peter Rathlev" wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 20:55 +0100, Peter Rathlev wrote: >> Thanks. We'll try just adding "ip igmp snooping querier" to the specific >> SVI to see

Re: [c-nsp] Sup720, multicast bothers the CPU

2011-03-23 Thread Chris Evans
Peter. Yes just enable igmp snooping and querier. Easier way is to enable pim which does the rest. Traffic that has a low ttl of one will still get punted to the CPU.. On Mar 23, 2011 5:18 AM, "Peter Rathlev" wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 09:04 +, Phil Mayers wrote: >> If you just want to d

Re: [c-nsp] N5K with Generic Copper sfp

2011-03-21 Thread Chris Evans
ot want to have an event happen. > > > -Original Message- > From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Chris Evans > Sent: Tuesday, 22 March 2011 11:17 AM > To: tvarri...@comcast.net > Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net &

Re: [c-nsp] N5K with Generic Copper sfp

2011-03-21 Thread Chris Evans
The command still works. You also need to configure speed 1000 under the port. On Mar 21, 2011 9:03 PM, "Tony Varriale" wrote: > On 3/21/2011 6:22 PM, Thomason, Simon wrote: >> Hey All, >> >> Was just wondering if anyone has had much luck using generic copper sfp in a nexus 5020? I have run into a

Re: [c-nsp] What is the lowest latency switch?

2011-03-16 Thread Chris Evans
The qfx3500 looks great on paper. However there are a lot of features that aren't supported at FCS.. One big one such as Layer 3 functionality, its not supported until Q3. The QFX3500 also uses the same merchant silicon that the Nexus 3K uses.. On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:06 PM, magno wrote: > Ju

Re: [c-nsp] VRF and Tacas

2011-03-16 Thread Chris Evans
If I remember right under the tacacs server configuration you need to tell it to use the vrf. This might be under the server group also. On Mar 16, 2011 5:34 PM, "Judith Sanders" wrote: > I am trying to configure my ASR 1006 to use TACACS+ via my vrf interface, which is my gigabitethernet 0 inter

Re: [c-nsp] What is the lowest switch?

2011-03-16 Thread Chris Evans
This new network switch is the 3ks which are based on merchant silicon. Its a stop gap solution until they spin their own. I believe its based on the broadcom Trident chipset that other vendors such as bnt juniper and arista are using.. They are due out by end if April for fcs I believe. On Mar 1

Re: [c-nsp] What is the lowest latency switch?

2011-03-16 Thread Chris Evans
Talk to your se.. it's due out by end of April. On Mar 16, 2011 8:41 AM, "Soon Lee" wrote: > Can I get any document what you say? > > > > Thanks > > > > Soon Lee > > CCIE# 17724 > > > > From: Chris Evans [mailto:chrisccnpsp...@gmail.c

Re: [c-nsp] What is the lowest latency switch?

2011-03-16 Thread Chris Evans
Ciscos lowest latency box is the nexus 3000.. On Mar 16, 2011 8:17 AM, "Soon Lee" wrote: > Hi > > Lowest latency switch hahaha. > > according to this document( http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/switches/ps5718/ps6021/stac_report_cisco_catalyst_4900m_10gige_switch.pdf ) > > Latency of C4900M is 19 mi

Re: [c-nsp] Why does PIM enable IGMP?

2011-03-14 Thread Chris Evans
Pim is needed on sender segments. Igmp is needed on receiver segments. Basically one command is easier to do both jobs as they go hand and hand with each other in the environments typically.. On Mar 1, 2011 10:16 AM, "Benjamin Lovell" wrote: > Turning on PIM also turns on the IGMP querier functio

Re: [c-nsp] Nexus equipment in corporate networks

2011-03-12 Thread Chris Evans
Can anyone provide their reasoning for using VDC? Everytime we review it there is no compelling reason for us to use it over a vrf. Interested in seeing others opinions. Thanks On Mar 12, 2011 1:14 PM, "Federico Cossu" wrote: > 1) yes we do > 2) no management vdc, but yes we do that as well. > >

Re: [c-nsp] 3560 vs 4948 shared buffer memory

2011-03-07 Thread Chris Evans
We don't use 3750 or smaller switches anymore due to this. 4948 is deemed data center class so we started using it ffor that. Haven't had any issues so far. On Mar 7, 2011 11:11 PM, "Dan Letkeman" wrote: > Hello, > > I've noticed a fair amount of output drops from traffic bursts on our > 3560G's

Re: [c-nsp] DFC3B distribution card on WS-X6708-10G

2011-03-04 Thread Chris Evans
3c or 3cxl is all that is supported on that module. On Mar 4, 2011 5:45 AM, "Jiri Prochazka" wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder if I can swap original DFC3CXL distribution card used on > WS-X6708-10G-3CXL with legacy DFC3B module without any problem? > > So after this swap it would be WS-X6708-10G-3B, w

Re: [c-nsp] BGP Black hole

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Evans
You also need to configure IP reverse path verify on your incoming interface. That is what you are missing... On Mar 2, 2011 3:58 PM, "Jay Nakamura" wrote: > I am testing BGP black hole setup in my GNS3. One AS announcing to > the other AS to black hole a prefix. I am hitting a wall where the > r

Re: [c-nsp] NSR and GRES

2011-02-26 Thread Chris Evans
Its recommended to use bfd if you can as it is distributed processed On Feb 26, 2011 7:11 PM, "David water" wrote: > Any good documentation on NSR or GRES that some one can point me to? I am > looking for the functionality and design recommendation? What IGP timer > should I use with it? OSPF Fast

Re: [c-nsp] juniper/cisco inter-as vpn strangeness

2011-02-20 Thread Chris Evans
Try pinging with a larger mtu? Rule that out first I would say. On Feb 20, 2011 7:40 AM, "Rutger Bevaart" wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm puzzled by the following, maybe you've seen something like this as well. > > We've setup an MPLS inter-AS VPN with us being a Cisco 7200 running 12.2(33)SRE2 and

Re: [c-nsp] Internal MP-BGP

2011-02-13 Thread Chris Evans
What is your Igp? Ldp needs an igp to function properly or else you need bgp to do the label exchange for you which I think only works on ebgp. Look at the mpls label bindings and see I'd they are being setup properly. On Feb 13, 2011 7:34 AM, "marc williams" wrote: > setup: > > asr1-asr2 > >

Re: [c-nsp] Nexus 5548P - 1 Gbps support

2011-02-09 Thread Chris Evans
1 gig support isn't until the e-rocks release coming up March 1st. On Feb 9, 2011 12:32 PM, "Nick Hilliard" wrote: > On 09/02/2011 17:14, Michael Balasko wrote: >> Maybe look at Arista Networks? Most of their folks are ex-Cisco so it tastes just like chicken:) Gear is awesome, as is the support an

Re: [c-nsp] Opinions about the next 6500/7600

2011-02-04 Thread Chris Evans
I personally don't want the Nexus platforms to be bloated down with un-needed features.. Hence why the 6500 has had some many problems over the years.. The Nexus platforms were meant to be data center platforms. Most data centers you don't need large routing tables, you don't need MPLS, you don't n

Re: [c-nsp] Opinions about the next 6500/7600

2011-02-04 Thread Chris Evans
I concurr... already we have seen less issues with our 7ks than we have with our 6500s both software and hardware wise. Nx-os isn't bloated with crap.yet On Feb 4, 2011 1:41 PM, "Tony Varriale" wrote: > On 2/4/2011 10:22 AM, Mack McBride wrote: >> The most comparable for the 7600 is the ASR

Re: [c-nsp] Opinions about the next 6500/7600

2011-02-04 Thread Chris Evans
We are personally not installing anymore 6500 unless we have to in the data centers... nexus all the way. On Feb 4, 2011 8:20 AM, "Drew Weaver" wrote: > Howdy, > > I think most folks can agree that the amount of traffic on the Internet is being carried by 6500/7600 series gear is probably a prett

Re: [c-nsp] rate-limit 2 subinterfaces with shared bandwidth

2011-02-03 Thread Chris Evans
d to read up on this and change the values around if I've got it wrong > and it should be 8m cir with burst (or some other combination). > > There could be numerous mistakes in the above, I've typed it out and not > tried it on an actual box. Happy to hear comments on whether

Re: [c-nsp] rate-limit 2 subinterfaces with shared bandwidth

2011-02-03 Thread Chris Evans
36000 2048000 conform-action transmit > exceed-action drop > > rate-limit output 8192000 1536000 2048000 conform-action transmit > exceed-action drop > > > > But Fa0/1.100 & Fa0/1.101 should never go over 8 Mbps together so they won't > saturate my 10 Mbps WAN and

Re: [c-nsp] rate-limit 2 subinterfaces with shared bandwidth

2011-02-02 Thread Chris Evans
This is commonly know has h-qos. Not all platforms support it However.. On Feb 2, 2011 4:59 PM, "Pshem Kowalczyk" wrote: > Hi, > > On 3 February 2011 05:45, Rens wrote: >> Hi, >> I have 2 subinterfaces (Fa0/1.100 & Fa0/1.200) >> Here are the things I would like: >> 1) rate limit both to 8

Re: [c-nsp] Design question for 7206VXR Port Adapters

2011-01-31 Thread Chris Evans
You could get a mux unit for your install. Have them deliver a channelized ds3 yo your site and break it out to t1s on your prem again. On Jan 31, 2011 10:23 AM, "Gert Doering" wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:11:43AM -0500, Rich Davies wrote: >> stumbled on 7500/7200 port adapter which

Re: [c-nsp] Nexus 7000 - vPC during NX-OS upgrade (ISSU)

2011-01-27 Thread Chris Evans
t may be that an upgrade between two releases requires you to do > something. > e.g. see < > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/5_x/nx-os/release/notes/51_nx-os_release_note.html#wp293013 > > > > you can certainly run vPC with one vPC peer switch being a different

Re: [c-nsp] Nexus 7000 - vPC during NX-OS upgrade (ISSU)

2011-01-27 Thread Chris Evans
Cisco has advised us to not use issu when possible.. we have had a few weird bugs from it after the fact.. we are running 4.2(4).. On Jan 27, 2011 7:32 AM, wrote: > Yes, vPC is compatible with ISSU and both os will work together while upgrading both boxes. > > But upgrading from 4.2 to 5.x is dis

Re: [c-nsp] CoPP IS-IS traffic on N7k

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Evans
It should be catching it with the network control system policy. Can't remember the name exactly.. we only have been using bgp with ours so far.. On Jan 16, 2011 3:09 PM, "Matthew Melbourne" wrote: > We are currently seeing IS-IS adjacencies flap on one of our pair of > N7k boxes (eachN7k is dua

Re: [c-nsp] Constant output drops on etherchannel

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Evans
You could have some microbursts going on that can kill the buffers even at low traffic rates... On Jan 16, 2011 10:04 AM, "Klementina Miloslava" wrote: > > > On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Dan Letkeman wrote: > >> No. >> >> Drops are happening even when its not under load. Has nothing to do >> with bandwidt

Re: [c-nsp] Cheap switch that runs same version of NX-OS that the nexus 7000 runs?

2011-01-15 Thread Chris Evans
Nope On Jan 15, 2011 11:15 AM, "Drew Weaver" wrote: > Are there any cheap/old switches out there that you can install the same version of the OS that the Nexus 7000 runs? The main benefit of this would be learning the new commands, etc but not having to buy a Nexus 7000. > > thanks, > -Drew > > __

Re: [c-nsp] ASR 9000 Newbie question

2011-01-06 Thread Chris Evans
gt; >> Stuff like the 8-Port 10G cards are not supported in 3.7.3, amongst other limitations you will encounter. >> >> - Jared >> >> On Jan 6, 2011, at 5:52 PM, John Neiberger wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:45 PM, John Neiberger wrote: >>>

Re: [c-nsp] ASR 9000 Newbie question

2011-01-06 Thread Chris Evans
Dumb question. But you powered it with 220 I hope... On Jan 6, 2011 5:29 PM, "John Neiberger" wrote: > We have a couple of new ASR 9k routers in our test lab. None of us > have had training on them yet and none of us know IOS-XR yet. One of > our engineers is installing the new blades and two of

Re: [c-nsp] bbq 2970

2010-12-26 Thread Chris Evans
Do these devices still have an unlimited warranty? On Dec 26, 2010 12:04 PM, "Keegan Holley" wrote: > Depends on your throughput needs. Have you looked at the 2960-S series? > It's pretty much a 2960 with 10G stack cables. It would be a cheap way to > allow your environment to scale without needin

Re: [c-nsp] SUP7-E on 4500

2010-12-13 Thread Chris Evans
I think you mean ios xe. Xe is pretty stable. I have only experience with the asr1k tho.. On Dec 13, 2010 2:46 PM, "vince anton" wrote: > Hi list, > > > Im looking at the new SUP7 on the 4500 for a project im working on. > > it fits fine in terms of capacity and performance required for the job >

Re: [c-nsp] Q regarding QoS on 6500

2010-12-07 Thread Chris Evans
Do a show queuing command on the interface and it will tell you the queue capabilites. On Dec 7, 2010 6:09 AM, "Roger Wiklund" wrote: > I have a simple question regarding QoS on 6500. > > My question is: how do I know what type of cards/interfaces I'm using > (Flex WAN, OCM-WAN, LAN), and what typ

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