[c-nsp] Recieving Dying Gasp notifications

2010-06-15 Thread Kaegler, Mike
I have a few remote sites which can be prone to power failures. For various reasons, implementing UPSs with management cards is not suitable and/or desirable. The remote equipment all supports Dying Gasp, however, but I cannot seem to find a way to make my 7200s, 3800s, or 2600s to receive the DG

Re: [c-nsp] Ethernet Interfaces Speed and Duplex - Force or Auto

2010-05-21 Thread Kaegler, Mike
FWIW, the following is an old email I sent to our internal IT list last year reinforcing our current practice of auto/auto on all ports except where autoneg is proven to fail. It's a bit of historical review of reasons to hard-set. ~ Begin ~ >> Why did we continue to use 100/full?" Social inerti

Re: [c-nsp] ntp scaling

2010-03-08 Thread Kaegler, Mike
As a datapoint, I was running NTP on ~315-340 devices against a 6500/sup2a for years before upgrading to a 720. Never had a problem. I don't even think either sup noticed. :) -porkchop -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] O

Re: [c-nsp] Chassis Failure Rate

2010-02-25 Thread Kaegler, Mike
6500: One backplane failure in 120 chassis-years (number of chassis running times the number of years they've been running). 4500: Zero in 20 chassis-years. -porkchop -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of nm...@g

Re: [c-nsp] sliding window quota

2009-10-01 Thread Kaegler, Mike
Packeteer (now owned by Blue Coat) will play with TCP window sizes as part of their bandwidth management bag of tricks. Packeteer can handle some complex shaping/management plans in a understandable way. I strongly encourage anyone looking at bandwidth management to take a look. Staying on the Cis

Re: [c-nsp] PAT usage stats...

2009-09-10 Thread Kaegler, Mike
Right now at one ~400 person site, I have 187 active local IPs sharing 1487 still-alive connections. Its your regular everyday sales cubefarm. That's just shy of an average of 8 translations per active user. By those numbers, you could have 8,000 salespeople on one PAT. Personally, I'd cut it faaa

Re: [c-nsp] TCP throughput /WAN delay simulation with back to back routers

2009-08-19 Thread Kaegler, Mike
If you have a linux machine laying around (a default ubuntu install will do...), drop it on the same subnet as either one of the two PCs. (only one ethernet card needed) Do: iptables -A OUTPUT -p icmp --icmp-type redirect -j DROP tc qdisc add dev eth0 root netem delay 45msec echo -n 1 > /proc/sys/

Re: [c-nsp] Open Source Substitute for Cisco's Secure ACS?

2009-08-13 Thread Kaegler, Mike
Assuming you're using TACACS+ to handle this, since radius servers are everywhere... I've been using tac_plus from http://www.pro-bono-publico.de/projects/tac_plus.html (there appear to be several projects named "tac_plus", this was the first one to work well for me.) As an added bonus, the author

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6509-E & WiSM - OIR

2009-08-12 Thread Kaegler, Mike
On 8/12/09 9:31 AM, "Jeff Cartier" wrote: > Does anyone know if a Cisco 6509-E w/ Sup720 & WiSM will support OIR? > I've dug around Google and Cisco, but haven't found a concrete 'YES'. > My gut feeling is telling me it's okay; but I figure I'd ask the group J > Thanks!!! I've done it several tim

Re: [c-nsp] WLC discovery

2009-06-10 Thread Kaegler, Mike
rkchop On 6/10/09 5:49 PM, "Shine Joseph" wrote: > Yes it is in layer 3 mode > > - Original Message - > From: "Ryan West" > To: "Shine Joseph" > Cc: "Kaegler, Mike" ; > Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 5:30 AM > Subject: Re: [

Re: [c-nsp] WLC discovery

2009-06-10 Thread Kaegler, Mike
Boot the AP with the Mode button down to reset its parameter memory. If that doesn't help, hook into console and watch the messages. If that doesn't help, execute some 'debug [...]' statements on the same console. -porkchop On 6/10/09 4:42 PM, "Shine Joseph" wrote: > Hi, > > A Cisco WLC4402 is

Re: [c-nsp] Wifi network and too many wifi users

2009-05-15 Thread Kaegler, Mike
On 5/14/09 1:44 PM, "reflect ocean" wrote: > Hi there.I run a medium-sized wifi network.We are cisco shop > (autonommous access points).Recently wifi users number have reached > limits we didn't expect.Because of that,we had to adjust our subnet > network in order to support more users associated

Re: [c-nsp] Network Drawing tool

2009-03-17 Thread Kaegler, Mike
There was a huge NANOG thread about this a few weeks ago... http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg15295.html Because of the recommendations in that thread, I got out the credit card for OmniGraffle, which despite being a generally unheard of mac-only product got specific praise in perhaps mo