Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Nexus 3k Route Selection\Packet Forwarding Debugging

2023-04-02 Thread Raymond Burkholder via cisco-nsp
On 4/2/23 23:16, Mike Hammett via cisco-nsp wrote: We have a Nexus 3064 that is setup with partial BGP tables and is routing based on that. I've done a show ip bgp for an IP of interest and it has an expected next hop IP. I show ip arp on that next hop IP and it has the expected interface. Howe

Re: [c-nsp] cisco nexus vpc hybrid topology

2021-02-23 Thread Raymond Burkholder
Why not L3 your network instead?  Use VxLAN for 'interior' core, and vPC at the edges.  And migrate away from STP completely?  Build from the core outwards. On 2/23/21 5:29 AM, Marco Regini wrote: Hello, is anyone heavily using nexus vpc in hybrid topology ? I want to maintain my standard

Re: [c-nsp] gre tunnel mtu mismatch

2018-10-03 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 2018-10-03 3:42 p.m., Mike wrote: I have an ME3600 and an ASR920. Im trying to run ospf over a gre tunnel and having issues because OSPF seems to see a different tunnel mtu on either end of the link. on other cisco gear I've worked, there has been a parameter in ospf to ignore mtu, I belie

Re: [c-nsp] {Disarmed} Re: IPerf alternative

2017-08-12 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 08/12/17 12:55, Saku Ytti wrote: On 12 August 2017 at 18:21, Raymond Burkholder wrote: I have successfully run iperf bidirectionally in tcp as well as udp and hit link limits, even on smaller, lower capacity linux based boxes. On what packet sizes? What link speeds? Linux UDP socket

Re: [c-nsp] {Disarmed} Re: IPerf alternative

2017-08-12 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 08/09/17 06:35, CiscoNSP List wrote: Hi Raymond (Apologies re top post, Hotmail is a pain) - Reliability concerns primarily with bidirectional simultaneous test mode - Single direction test (UDP), we are able to achieve close to a links capacity (1Gb), bidirectional (-r) (Sends one direction

Re: [c-nsp] IPerf alternative

2017-08-07 Thread Raymond Burkholder
> On 7 Aug 2017, at 04:25, CiscoNSP List wrote: > Looking for an alternative to IPerf for link testing - Having some > "reliability" concerns with IPerf results (Primarily with can you explain your ‘reliability’ concerns? > simultaneous data transfers) - Any recommendations are greatly appreci

Re: [c-nsp] Centralized IP transmission monitoring

2017-07-29 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 07/29/17 10:51, Samir Abid Al-mahdi via cisco-nsp wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Samir Abid Al-mahdi To:"cisco-nsp@pu ck.nether.net" Cc: Bcc: Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 08:26:04 +0300 Subject: Centralized IP transmission monitoring Dear experts, I am looking for a centrali

Re: [c-nsp] OT Solarwinds Alternatives

2017-07-27 Thread Raymond Burkholder
OC. If this takes multiple tools > then that is fine. Just looking for some ideas from the guys in the trenches. > Thanks! nf-sen/nf-dump for netflow check_mk for snmp stats, charting, and notifications netbox for ip address management rancid for tracking switch/router changes salt for pu

Re: [c-nsp] Unintentional load balancing of traffic

2015-09-18 Thread Raymond Burkholder
> Link 1 (primary) has ip ospf cost 201 > > Link 2 (secondary has ip ospf cost 202 > > But traffic egressing from this PE is load balancing(per session) across the > 2 links? > > If I do a sh ip route foo, it displays both paths, known via OSPF and route > metric of 205? Hazarding a guess: you

Re: [c-nsp] Slightly off-topic - Network Monitoring software

2015-04-24 Thread Raymond Burkholder
> I would also add Nagios to the list. Open NMS has also been useful in the > past and groundwork was interesting all be it expensive for the fully baked > commercial version. Look at the OMD version of Nagios. It provides good alerting, plus has charting for all the data it collects, plus has a

Re: [c-nsp] Divide large PVST domain?

2014-07-08 Thread Raymond Burkholder
> > I have a train of about 20 C3560X switches connected successively. > > I know such a diameter is not good for STP, however, when I place the > > root bridge in the middle of the train, PVST still works more or > > less reliably. > > Or turn on some simple routing like rip, and make each switch

Re: [c-nsp] IOS: catch 22 when enabling new bgp neighbors

2014-06-20 Thread Raymond Burkholder
> >> When I configure a new BGP session, before I can shutdown the neighbor > >> or apply a specific peer-group/session-template/policy-template, I need > >> to configure the remote-as, so the first command in the address-family is: > >> > >> neighbor 2001::123 remote-as 65005 Another way to hand

Re: [c-nsp] 6509 crash, and the following upgrade

2013-05-02 Thread Raymond Burkholder
> > Anyone know of a good tool for checking for syntax changes as we change > IOS and boot versions? Or is there a decent service out there we could rent > "lab" equipment of our current config to test the upgrade? We use Rancid from shrubbery.net to do this sort of thing. It takes config snaps

[c-nsp] u-pe placement

2013-02-22 Thread Raymond Burkholder
At http://etutorials.org/Networking/MPLS+VPN+security/Part+III+Practical+Guidel ines+to+MPLS+VPN+Security/Chapter+7.+Security+of+MPLS+Layer+2+VPNs/C6+VPLS+a nd+VPWS+Security+Overview/ they say: "We recommend that no service provider edge (PE) router be located at a customer premise because such a

Re: [c-nsp] Cat 6500 vs ASR

2013-01-17 Thread Raymond Burkholder
> For reference, I have been saying exactly what everyone here has been > saying, but my boss wants the specifics :-) How about www.cisco.com/go/fn That is the feature navigator.Other than that, I think you'd have to find some CiscoLive presentations. > > > > Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:2

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco command to see active session on "cisco WS-C6503-E (R7000)"

2012-12-12 Thread Raymond Burkholder
> > > You need netflow enabled on the switch, then enable "ip flow ingress" and > "ip flow egress" on the interface you are interested in, then perform a "show > ip cache flow" > > In addition to all the caveats which render pre-Sup2T/DFC4 NetFlow on 6500 > extremely problematic, one ought never

Re: [c-nsp] iSCSI over wan?

2012-04-16 Thread Raymond Burkholder
> > What is the best practice around routing iSCSI? > > > > We have been asked about routing iSCSI traffic over our WAN. What are > the > > pit falls that we need to be looking at? > > Many of the iSCSI initiators I have looked at have NO sense of even a default > route, because they are designed

Re: [c-nsp] Config sync utility

2011-05-19 Thread Raymond Burkholder
> Is there such a beast as something that can synchronize portions of IOS > config and provide an output that an administrator can run through clogin or > something (or in a perfect world, this tool would login to each node to and > synchronize the relevant portions of the config itself)? Somethin

Re: [c-nsp] micro bursts

2011-03-05 Thread Raymond Burkholder
> on 3/5/11 6:07 AM Daniel Hooper said the following: > > What's the best way to graph or log them with 3550 switches? > > > > I once had a windows application that could do 1 second polls on interface > counters that was really good, but I can no longer find this piece of software > or even rememb

[c-nsp] stm-1/stm-4 mux

2011-01-10 Thread Raymond Burkholder
List Members: Can anyone make a recommendation on a self-contained STM-4/STM-1 mux: STM-4 is used for back haul, and STM-1s are split out for local use. It appears as though a 7206VXR G2 won't accept STM-4 natively, so I need something to split a few of the STM-1's out. Ray. -- This messag

Re: [c-nsp] Embeded Packet Capture for DHCP Troubleshooting

2010-09-21 Thread Raymond Burkholder
> > 2801 is doing dhcp - and I wanted to get a packet capture to see why 2 thin > clients won't get dhcp leases successfully from the 2801 upon boot up (so > before the client has an ip from dhcp - isn't the dhcp transaction all arp?) > Check your switch. Do you have portfast turned on? I've