Re: [c-nsp] 3750G Switch

2018-12-08 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Dec 07, 2018 at 03:40:45PM +, Harry Hambi - Atos wrote: > Trying to upgrade a 3750G from IOS c3750e-universalk9-mz.150-2.SE10.bin to > a latest version c3750e-universalk9-mz.152-4.E7.bin, and I am getting the > following error: > Error loading "flash: c3750e-universalk9-mz.152-4.E7.bi

Re: [c-nsp] NCS-5501/NCS-5502 as border/core routers

2017-08-24 Thread Simon Lockhart
David, On Wed Aug 23, 2017 at 08:19:11AM +, David Hubbard wrote: > The pricing & licensing almost killed the deal before I executed it. It's the licensing that I'm most worried about - particularly as it doesn't appear to be public documented. > but on > the 5501se, the base price only incl

[c-nsp] NCS-5501/NCS-5502 as border/core routers

2017-08-22 Thread Simon Lockhart
All, I'm currently trying to plan some upgrades for one of my networks where we currently use Cat6500/Sup2T as both 'core' and 'border' routers, but are very rapidly outgrowing them. I've recently split off the L2 transport aspects from the 6500's onto 100G capable switches (I ended up using Extr

Re: [c-nsp] 4x10G Etherchannel overruns

2017-03-06 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Mar 03, 2017 at 09:04:28AM -0800, Peter Kranz wrote: > On a WS-X6908-10G DCEF2T line card with SUP2T's, I ran into overruns > yesterday on a 4x10G etherchannel that I am at a loss to resolve: Are you seeing any fabric drops? "show fabric drop" We're just troubleshooting a similar(ish) issu

Re: [c-nsp] Tabo Topic? Third party Maintenance

2017-01-24 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Tue Jan 24, 2017 at 09:02:18AM +0100, Gert Doering wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 07:33:08PM -0500, Charles Sprickman via cisco-nsp > wrote: > > I have to say, I haven???t been impressed with their support in a long > > time. We have smartnet really just for hardware, and recently I figured

Re: [c-nsp] Catalyst 6504-E memory reallocation

2017-01-08 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Sun Jan 08, 2017 at 11:46:59AM -0500, Curtis Piehler wrote: > I would like to replace one of the DIA providers with > another by shutting it down then enabling the new DIA provider. If I do > this process will the device reclaim the unused memory once the old DIA > provider is shut down, then r

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

2016-12-02 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Dec 02, 2016 at 03:40:03PM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote: > Good to know. > > We are currently considering the 9508 for a particular role (Layer 2 > only), and I know they are based on the Broadcom chip. I'm guessing this > is where the limitation is coming from, yes? The 92160 is based on Cisco

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

2016-12-02 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Dec 02, 2016 at 01:15:01PM +, Nick Hilliard wrote: > so just to confirm, what you're saying is that if the N9k switch is in > standard L2 mode, no L3 or mpls configured, that it cannot forward VPLS > frames with MAC addresses starting with either 4 or 6? Where the inner Destination MAC

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

2016-12-02 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Dec 02, 2016 at 03:16:17PM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote: > Remind me - are you running the Nexus 9000 as a PE router, or as a basic > Layer 2 Ethernet switch? Basic Layer 2 Ethernet switch, sat between two of my MPLS P routers. The Nexus 9000 does not support MPLS. Simon __

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

2016-12-02 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed Nov 23, 2016 at 12:01:20PM +, Simon Lockhart wrote: > On Fri Nov 04, 2016 at 03:40:05PM +0000, Simon Lockhart wrote: > > To me, everything *looks* right, it's just that some VPLS traffic traversing > > the new link gets lost. > > For those who are interested..

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

2016-11-23 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed Nov 23, 2016 at 12:07:26PM +, James Bensley wrote: > Yep. This is why I always use the control word. Turn it on and your > problem will probably go away. If only. Extreme EXOS doesn't support control word :( (Or, at least, I've not found the right knob to turn yet) Simon _

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

2016-11-23 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Nov 04, 2016 at 03:40:05PM +, Simon Lockhart wrote: > To me, everything *looks* right, it's just that some VPLS traffic traversing > the new link gets lost. For those who are interested... Well, I finally got to the bottom of this, and have pushed it to Cisco TAC for a f

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

2016-11-11 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Nov 04, 2016 at 03:40:05PM +, Simon Lockhart wrote: > Anyone got any suggestions on what I should look for whilst troubleshooting > this? Well, having got myself to a point where I could reliably reproduce the problem, I think I've narrowed down the issue... On the 100G o

[c-nsp] Wierd MPLS/VPLS issue

2016-11-04 Thread Simon Lockhart
All, Having banged my head against a brick wall all day today trying to work out what's going on, and not having got anywhere, I thought I'd ask this list for some suggestions... I've got a Cisco MPLS core network, with Extreme boxes running as VPLS endpoints. Over the last couple of days I've t

Re: [c-nsp] Router 6504E - SUP 720 3B XL

2016-07-18 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Mon Jul 18, 2016 at 08:24:55PM -0300, Estagiario wrote: > used Cisco 6505+SUP720-3BXL+WS-X6704-10GE = (R $ 40,000) To give you a feel, in the UK I would expect to pay about 20% of that price, maybe even 10%, or less. I don't know what the used market is like in Brazil, but you may do better to

Re: [c-nsp] Can you upgrade WS-X6908-10G-2T to -2TXL?

2016-05-04 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed May 04, 2016 at 02:27:13PM +0100, Phil Mayers wrote: > Right up until you RMA it and the *next* TAC engineer says it's a fake and > you can't have a replacement, and the previous engineer is nowhere to be > found. My thoughts exactly. Just to confuse matters a bit, we don't buy these cards

[c-nsp] Can you upgrade WS-X6908-10G-2T to -2TXL?

2016-05-04 Thread Simon Lockhart
All, We've recently received a WS-X6908-10G-2T which has been 'upgraded' to a -2TXL by replacing the DFC-4 with a DFC4-EXL. When we install the card in our 6500, we get the following warning: May 3 05:49:10.566 UTC: %SMC-DFC4-2-BAD_ID_HW: Failed Identification Test in 4/0/1 [5/0] The m

Re: [c-nsp] C6509 Fabric Switch Capacity

2016-01-13 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed Jan 13, 2016 at 07:10:09AM -0800, Azher Mughal wrote: > For WS 6704 (with DFC3B), I was able to go close to 9Gbps per port > across the bus when using Iperf and jumbo frames. Single port on each of > the bus gives you line rate of 9.9Gbps. Sounds like you come from the Cisco camp of perform

Re: [c-nsp] C6509 Fabric Switch Capacity

2016-01-13 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed Jan 13, 2016 at 04:25:48PM +0200, Chris Knipe wrote: > Whilst I can understand over subscription (and subsequent drops) on the > WS-X6708, would the same hold true for the WS-X7604? The WS-X6704 has woefully underpowered ASICs on it. It has the dual 20G bus connections, with two 10G ports o

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 10G gear

2015-01-17 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Sat Jan 17, 2015 at 11:57:21AM +0200, Chris Knipe wrote: > > Depends on your total traffic requirements. SUP720 + 6704 + 6748-GE-TX > > (+ 6724-SFP if I need fibre) is still my work-horse of choice for a Cisco > > switch offering both 10G and 1G ports. On the used market, these blades are > > av

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 10G gear

2015-01-17 Thread Simon Lockhart
e Nexus 3000 range which fits your requirements. > Sorry for all the questions, in my 15 odd years of networking, this is > the first time that I will be entering the 10GE arena, so I really > want to just make sure that I get the correct kit from the start. > These toys aren't

Re: [c-nsp] ASR vs 6807

2014-11-27 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Thu Nov 27, 2014 at 10:18:41AM +, R LAS wrote: > Discussing a new architecture of DCI (Data Center Interconnection), Cisco > raccomends both ASR9k and 6807. The architecture requested by the customer > forecast MPLS/VPLS supported by DCI. > > From pricing point of view there is a quite big

Re: [c-nsp] ASR vs 6807

2014-11-27 Thread Simon Lockhart
, largely > > from a price perspective. > > > > ASR9k is (today) a more capable box for routing - particularly if you want > > higher bandwidths. ASR9k has 100G ports today. 6807 only has 40G. ASR9k can > > be more flexible on EoMPLS (VPLS) than 6807. > > >

Re: [c-nsp] How to troubleshoot input queue drop continuously on Cisco7600?

2014-10-20 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Mon Oct 20, 2014 at 05:00:29PM +0700, PlaWanSai RMUTT CPE IX wrote: > Mod Ports Card Type Model Serial > No. > > --- - -- -- > --- > > 14 CEF720 4 port 10-Gigabit Ethernet WS-X

[c-nsp] Exactly how bad is the 6704-10GE?

2014-10-08 Thread Simon Lockhart
All, (This is vaguely related to my question earlier in the week about ASR capacity) We use quite a few 6704-10GE blades on our network, and I'm seeing some random congestion type issues. In some cases, I've made the problem go away by shuffling ports between blades to spread the load, but I'm le

Re: [c-nsp] Understanding ASR1k / ESP40 capacity

2014-10-06 Thread Simon Lockhart
.net/2014/usa/pdf/BRKARC-2001.pdf > > -Pete > > On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 4:56 AM, Simon Lockhart wrote: > > > All, > > > > I'm banging my head against a brick wall trying to get sensible answers > > from > > Cisco TAC, so thought I'd ask the

[c-nsp] Understanding ASR1k / ESP40 capacity

2014-10-04 Thread Simon Lockhart
All, I'm banging my head against a brick wall trying to get sensible answers from Cisco TAC, so thought I'd ask the educated masses who may have come across this before... I've got a Cisco ASR1004 with RP2, ESP40, 2 * SIP40's, and 8 * 10GE ports. A snapshot of usage on these ports at peak is: I

Re: [c-nsp] Determining ASR1k ESP/SIP utilisation

2014-03-16 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Sun Mar 16, 2014 at 08:17:07PM -0400, Pete Lumbis wrote: > http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/routers/asr-1000-series-aggregation-services-routers/110531-asr-packet-drop.htm Thanks - I've looked at that page a few times, but it seems to focus on how to find out what's gone wrong when y

[c-nsp] Determining ASR1k ESP/SIP utilisation

2014-03-16 Thread Simon Lockhart
All, I have a number of ASR1004's on my network, each with an identical configuration, consisting of: ASR1000-RP2 ASR1000-ESP40 2 * ASR1000-SIP40 4 * SPA-1X10GE-L-V2 (Te0/0/0, Te0/1/0, Te1/0/0, Te1/1/0) Two of the 10G ports are customer facing, the other two are core facing. All the 10G ports a

Re: [c-nsp] ASR9k/IOS-XR BNG for IPoE (DHCP) help

2013-06-07 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Jun 07, 2013 at 06:56:31AM -0500, Bradley Williamson wrote: > What version of code are you running. There is a bug in DHCP after 4.1. I > have been working with Cisco on this and they finally acknowledged it is a > bug. We have no date for a patch yet. I'm running 4.3.1 on ASR9001. What's

[c-nsp] ASR9k/IOS-XR BNG for IPoE (DHCP) help

2013-06-06 Thread Simon Lockhart
All, I'm currently evaluating the ASR9001 as a BNG for IPoE traffic (Double VLAN tagged traffic, doing DHCP) - but I'm having difficulties getting the DHCP proxy bit working. Has anyone done this before, or can anyone help point me in the direction of why my config isn't working? I've been workin

Re: [c-nsp] Terminating lots of double-tagged vlans

2013-05-29 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed May 29, 2013 at 04:36:12PM +0100, Tom Storey wrote: > Is there a reason you couldnt do something like the following? > > encapsulation dot1q 100 second-dot1q 1-4095 > > Maybe not as "elegant" as the "any" keyword, but it would let you do > routing while covering all of the inner VLAN IDs?

Re: [c-nsp] Terminating lots of double-tagged vlans

2013-05-23 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed Apr 17, 2013 at 12:57:05PM -0700, Bruce Pinsky wrote: > Simon Lockhart wrote: > > I'm working on a project which uses GPON to connect tens of thousands > > of properties in a fibre-to-the-home environment. Each property will > > be handed off to me as a double-tag

Re: [c-nsp] Terminating lots of double-tagged vlans

2013-04-17 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed Apr 17, 2013 at 12:57:05PM -0700, Bruce Pinsky wrote: > Simon Lockhart wrote: > > What I'd come up with is that I'd "ignore" the inner tags, and just > > use the outer S-Tag to put the properties into subnets (one per > > S-Tag), and then just do

[c-nsp] Terminating lots of double-tagged vlans

2013-04-17 Thread Simon Lockhart
All, I'm working on a project which uses GPON to connect tens of thousands of properties in a fibre-to-the-home environment. Each property will be handed off to me as a double-tagged vlan, one per property. Obviously I don't want to manually create tens of thousands of subinterfaces on a router,

Re: [c-nsp] High CPU utilization on sup720 with GRE

2013-03-24 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Sun Mar 24, 2013 at 02:06:09PM +0300, Samir Abidali wrote: > Can you somebody help me in understanding whey GRE tunnel Cisco > WS-SUP720-3BXL , with two GRE tunnel configured will spike the cpur to 99% > when the traffic goes beyond 30mbps. > > According to documentation, the GRE is hardware ac

Re: [c-nsp] Linecard issue after upgrading Sup720 to 15.1(1)SY

2013-03-23 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Sat Mar 23, 2013 at 04:29:10AM -0700, Erik Nelson wrote: > I have a 6509-E with SUP720-10G running 15.1(1)SY with a 6748-SFP/DFC3A. The > chassis also has two 6748-GE-TX one with DFC3B and one with DFC3CXL. The > 6748-SFP is HW 1.3. Many thanks for the confirmation that it can work. Looks like

[c-nsp] Linecard issue after upgrading Sup720 to 15.1(1)SY

2013-03-23 Thread Simon Lockhart
All, Is anyone running 15.1(1)SY (or an earlier 15.x release) on a 6500/Sup720? I tried to upgrade a box this morning from 12.2(33)SXJ3 to 15.1(1)SY, and all worked okay except one line card (a WS-X6748-SFP): router#show mod 2 Mod Ports Card Type Model

Re: [c-nsp] ASR1004 and NAT limitation?

2013-03-22 Thread Simon Lockhart
Pete, Many thanks for taking the time to respond. On Fri Mar 22, 2013 at 06:26:14PM +0100, Pete Lumbis wrote: > My guess is the NAT configuration is actually exceeding TCAM on the ESP > that is installed. You can take a look at "show platform hardware qfp > active tcam resource-manager" to see t

[c-nsp] ASR1004 and NAT limitation?

2013-03-22 Thread Simon Lockhart
All, I'm running an ASR1004 as a centralised CGNAT router. I've got various pools defined for different customers, and use a NAT route-map to stop private IPs being NAT'd when trying to reach our internal services (where we'd want to see the private IPs still). Typical config per customer is: ip

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

2012-12-07 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Dec 07, 2012 at 09:54:08AM -0500, Randy wrote: > Have you considered a CoPP policy to limit the rate of BGP convergence? > Not sure if it would help with so many peers but it might lessen the > pain on your 3 full tables. No - I'm not doing any CoPP at the moment - but probably should. A

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

2012-12-07 Thread Simon Lockhart
All, I'm currently using SUP720-3BXL's in my BGP border devices. Obviously the SUP720 is not a particularly fast CPU, so it is pretty slow at bringing up a lot of BGP sessions. On one particular box, I've got 250 BGP neighbours - 1 full table transit, 2 IGP to route-reflectors, and the rest are

[c-nsp] Understanding ASR1k variants

2012-10-30 Thread Simon Lockhart
Cisco-NSP'ers, Due to a requirement to deploy CGN, I'm looking at the Cisco ASR1k range for the first time, and I'm a little confused about the different variants of RP, ESP, SIP, etc - and I'm hoping someone can clarify things a bit. I'm looking for a box which can route 10GE to 10GE at linerate

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco's new 4500-X 10G Aggregation Switches

2012-02-10 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Feb 10, 2012 at 01:31:12PM -0800, Sachin Gupta (sagupta) wrote: > Full IPv6 support at FCS. What I mean by full is feature parity with > Supervisor Engine 7-E on Catalyst 4500 platform. > > [SNIP] Sachin, Can I just publicly thank you (and the other Cisco employees who post to cisco-nsp) f

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco's new 4500-X 10G Aggregation Switches

2012-02-10 Thread Simon Lockhart
https://puck.nether.net/**mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp<https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp> > > archive at > > http://puck.nether.net/**pipermail/cisco-nsp/<http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/> > > > ___

Re: [c-nsp] New Joiner - ME3600X and tools

2011-03-29 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Tue Mar 29, 2011 at 10:35:41AM -0700, Waris Sagheer (waris) wrote: > VPLS and H-VPLS will be supported in the next release coming out in June > 2011. On the ME3600X as well, or just the ME3800X? Simon ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether

Re: [c-nsp] New Joiner - ME3600X and tools

2011-03-28 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Mon Mar 28, 2011 at 02:22:55PM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: > The only thing any of us can really do about that is decline to buy it. > Otherwise there is no perceivable effect in sales to its lack of IPv6 > support, and no driving force to get it there. Depends what you want to use it for. I've

Re: [c-nsp] QinQ on 3550 not working?

2011-01-21 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Jan 21, 2011 at 11:51:26PM +0100, Tth Andrs wrote: > Did you enable the extended routing SDM template on the 3550 switch? > Note that while on the 3560 it's only called routing, the 3550 has an > extended routing version, which has to be enabled for VRF to work. Yes - I did that (as the swi

[c-nsp] QinQ on 3550 not working?

2011-01-20 Thread Simon Lockhart
All, I've got a requirement for one of our customers to run two seperate networks over the same ethernet based WAN. The WAN is provided by the carrier as single VLAN per site, dot1q tagged at each end (both the customer site and our central PoP). The customer sites are all live currently with a si

[c-nsp] Wierd C3560 config changes

2010-06-04 Thread Simon Lockhart
All, I've got a bunch of Cisco 3560-xxTS's deployed as edge switches. Of the most recent batch, I've got just one switch which is showing odd behaviour, and I'm wondering if anyone has seen this before. The switch is running c3560-ipbasek9-mz.122-53.SE2 I'm monitoring the switch with rancid, and

Re: [c-nsp] SNMP irregularities.

2010-03-12 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Mar 12, 2010 at 05:40:56PM +0100, Peter Rathlev wrote: > > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.17.4.3.1.1.164.186.219.22.153.81 = Hex-STRING: A4 BA DB > > 16 99 51 > > This MAC address is strange though. :-) Plenty of strange MAC addresses around these days... >From http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/

Re: [c-nsp] Syslog Platform for a Telco Environment

2010-01-11 Thread Simon Lockhart
't Splunk the defacto answer to that question? Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation * ADSL * Domain Registration * Director|* Domain & Web Hosting * Internet Consultancy * Bogons Ltd | * http://www.bogons.n

Re: [c-nsp] Coax E1 over IP

2009-11-19 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Thu Nov 19, 2009 at 01:35:29PM +0100, Peter Rathlev wrote: > What can one do to take an E1 circuit from coax? Put it through an RJ45 to Coax balun? The difference between RJ45 and Coax is purely electrical, and baluns to convert are easily available and at low cost. Simon -- Simon Lockh

Re: [c-nsp] IOS 15.0 - why the numbering jump?

2009-10-04 Thread Simon Lockhart
ANCED IP SERVICES c870-advipservicesk9-mz.150-1.M.bin Release Date: 01/Oct/2009 Size: 23554.10 KB (24119396 bytes) Minimum Memory: DRAM:192 MB Flash:36 MB My 877 is fairly new (couple of months old), and only has 128M of RAM and 24M of flash. Gah, bloat. Simon -

Re: [c-nsp] EoMPLS v L2TPv3

2009-09-25 Thread Simon Lockhart
gut feel is that EoMPLS has more hardware support than L2TPv3. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation * ADSL * Domain Registration * Director|* Domain & Web Hosting * Internet Consultancy * Bogons Ltd | * http://www.bogons.net/ * Email:

Re: [c-nsp] HWIC-1ADSL-M

2009-09-03 Thread Simon Lockhart
s? We sell ADSL2+ services in the UK using Be/O2 LLU tails, and they have "approved" bother the HWIC-1ADSL-M and the C877-M for their service. I'm using a C877-M right now. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation * ADSL * Domain Registration * Director|

Re: [c-nsp] Humor: Cisco announces end of BGP

2009-07-29 Thread Simon Lockhart
e been running IPv6 with Level3 and NTT/Verio for a while now, and neither charged any extra for the privilege. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation * ADSL * Domain Registration * Director|* Domain & Web Hosting * Internet Consultancy * Bogons Ltd | * http://www.bog

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco's New Software Download Experience

2009-07-09 Thread Simon Lockhart
alled: ".\filename.foo" - yup, it had assumed that I was running windows and had used \ as a directory seperator. Next time I tried downloading an image, I wasn't presented with the download manager, and everything worked smoothly. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation *

Re: [c-nsp] DHCP server suited for option 82

2009-04-27 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Mon Apr 27, 2009 at 02:08:59PM -0700, Charles Wyble wrote: > http://www.thtech.net/article/10 for ISC example That appears to be the canonical example that's trotted out everytime Option 82 is mentioned. Fine if all you want to do is log the Option 82 information, but less than useful if you wa

Re: [c-nsp] Lab setup

2009-02-09 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 10:27:25AM -0700, Clinton Work wrote: > a) Set both POS interfaces to "clock source internal" because there is > no network clock in a back to back configuration. Surely if you're connecting back to back you want "clock source internal" on one end, and "clock source networ

Re: [c-nsp] 3560, 3560E, 3750E and Adv IP code EoLed?

2009-01-30 Thread Simon Lockhart
thing more than IPv6? Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation * ADSL * Domain Registration * Director|* Domain & Web Hosting * Internet Consultancy * Bogons Ltd | * http://www.bogons.net/ * Email: i...@bogons.net * ___ c

Re: [c-nsp] Client DHCP Server

2008-11-02 Thread Simon Lockhart
Any ideas ? Before anyone can try to speculate on how to solve such a problem, you'll need to provide more information, such as what the access network technology is, what Cisco hardware you have at the "ISP end". Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation * ADSL *

Re: [c-nsp] 12.2SXH 'archive' / Configuration Management

2008-06-08 Thread Simon Lockhart
t;Just works". RANCID "just works". Won't catch *every* change, as it's a polling based system, but I've never had a problem with it. If you want to capture every change that's made, consider TACACS - you'll probably want that anyway for individual login

Re: [c-nsp] CVR-X2-SFP

2008-05-14 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed May 14, 2008 at 01:56:20PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Who can tell me whether the Twingig CVR-X2-SFP are supported in 6500 module > WS-X6708-10G-3C ? No - they depend on an additional connector at the back of the slot which is only in the 3750E etc boxes. Simon -- Simon Lo

Re: [c-nsp] CVR-X2-SFP

2008-03-13 Thread Simon Lockhart
hat (as far as I can work out) they work by having both X2 and SFP connectors at the back of the slot in the switch, then I'm not surprised that they don't work in the 6708 module. We use them successfully in 3750E's. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation * ADSL

Re: [c-nsp] IPv6 on C3550, finally? (12.2(44)SE)

2008-02-03 Thread Simon Lockhart
6 cef" might also be available. It is on my 2620 (non XM). I didn't find it. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation * ADSL * Domain Registration * Director|* Domain & Web Hosting * Internet Consultancy * Bogons Ltd | * ht

Re: [c-nsp] IPv6 on C3550, finally? (12.2(44)SE)

2008-02-01 Thread Simon Lockhart
er > performance... The point is that I've got a whole load of 3550's providing customer-edge for colo'd servers, and customers are starting to ask for IPv6. Given the volume of IPv6 traffic I'll see in the short term, I'm happy enough with process switched. Simon -- Simo

[c-nsp] IPv6 on C3550, finally? (12.2(44)SE)

2008-01-31 Thread Simon Lockhart
s packets being sent by lab-sw, and replies being sent by the upstream switch (a 3560), but the 3550 never learns any neighbours, and pings don't work... lab-sw.rbsov#show ipv6 nei lab-sw.rbsov# Have I missed something needed to make this work, or is it just a work in progress, released prem

Re: [c-nsp] What is this part number?

2008-01-16 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 11:22:00AM -0500, Sridhar Ayengar wrote: > Right now, I need to find out what a "73-2570-01" is. Did you try google? Looks like it's a PA-FE-TX Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation * ADSL * Domain Registration * Director|* Do

Re: [c-nsp] Non-cisco product integration into CISCO

2008-01-04 Thread Simon Lockhart
o STB's in the office, and I've not seen anything on them to suggest that they support dot1q - they're purely an access device. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation * ADSL * Domain Registration * Director|* Domain & Web Hosting * Internet Consu

Re: [c-nsp] Non-cisco product integration into CISCO

2008-01-04 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Jan 04, 2008 at 04:40:11PM +0800, Dracul wrote: > interface FastEthernet0/14 > switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q > switchport trunk native vlan 100 > switchport mode trunk > switchport nonegotiate > end > > There are two VLANs used in the network VLAN 1 and VLAN 100. what we are > lookin

Re: [c-nsp] Non-cisco product integration into CISCO

2008-01-04 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Jan 04, 2008 at 03:38:14PM +0800, Dracul wrote: > I am trying to integrate an AMINO STB (used for iptv) to a cisco > dot1.qtrunk. any thoughts on this? I'm not aware that the Amino STB supports dot1q. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation * ADSL * Domain R

Re: [c-nsp] Input errors between PE - P

2007-11-07 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 11:34:03AM +0100, Kike wrote: > OK, and after setting that configuration how is your ip mtu? I mean > "sh ip int gix/x" csw0.ixn>sh ip int ten 1/1 | incl MTU MTU is 9216 bytes csw0.ixn>sh int ten 1/1 | incl MTU MTU 9216 bytes, BW 1000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec, Simon _

Re: [c-nsp] Input errors between PE - P

2007-11-07 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 09:56:32AM +0100, Kike wrote: > In the "sh ip int" output both routers have 1500 in the MTU... So they'll use 1500 for IP packets - but you also need to allow for MPLS tags. > Your interfaces are set in 9216 with the command "mtu 9216" or "ip mtu 9216"? "mtu 9216" Simon

Re: [c-nsp] Input errors between PE - P

2007-11-07 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 09:38:19AM +0100, Kike wrote: > Well... I'm a little lost with the MTU concept here... because I > configured two different MTUs, but I don't understand which exactly is > the function of the following commands: > > tag-switching mtu 1508 <-- P Router > > mtu 1508 <--

Re: [c-nsp] Input errors between PE - P

2007-11-07 Thread Simon Lockhart
rrors are occuring on the interfaces with the smaller MTU - could this be the problem? Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation * ADSL * Domain Registration * Director|* Domain & Web Hosting * Internet Consultancy * Bogons Ltd | * h

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco noob -- design guidance request

2007-09-02 Thread Simon Lockhart
om somewhere, and trunk all the vlans into that to do the routing between them, and to the outside world. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation * ADSL * Domain Registration * Director|* Domain & Web Hosting * Internet Consultancy * Bogons Ltd | * http://www.bo

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco noob -- design guidance request

2007-09-02 Thread Simon Lockhart
Sorry, I can't remember the exact syntax for the dhcpd.conf for this, but you just need to add a subnet {} section for each of the subnets, and it'll work out what you mean... Hope that helps, Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation

Re: [c-nsp] NM-2CE1B pinout

2007-05-22 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Tue May 22, 2007 at 04:15:00PM +0200, Vincent De Keyzer wrote: > I can't find the pinout of the DB-15 connector on the NM-2CE1B. I'm fairly certain it's this one... http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/access/acs_serv/as5400/hw_inst/mig/54crdcbl.pdf Simon

Re: [c-nsp] GRE router recommendations

2007-04-21 Thread Simon Lockhart
ll Catalyst switches. It does > work (in some versions?) but only at low performance and with > high CPU utilization... And, again, it's not supported. Yeah - I've since found that on the Cisco website. But, what about GRE performance on true routers? Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun S

[c-nsp] GRE router recommendations

2007-04-20 Thread Simon Lockhart
Is anyone aware of any documents detailing the GRE performance of different Cisco devices? I'm in the process of designing a network which will need to tunnel back to the core, for which I'm intending to use GRE. At the sites where I need to tunnel from are currently 3550 switches (and a few 375