Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets

2014-02-28 Thread Erik Muller
On 2/28/14, 10:24 , Leo Bicknell wrote: What I have always wanted is a way to group configuration, in particular by customer. Ideally with the ability to see it both as a unified view, and also as a per-customer view. For instance: customer A interface GigabitEthernet1/2/3.10

Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets

2014-02-27 Thread Erik Muller
On 2/26/14, 16:22 , Ryan Shea wrote: Howdy network operator cognoscenti, I'd love to hear your creative and workable solutions for a way to track in-line the configuration revisions you have on your cisco-like devices. ... Assume that this version encoding perfectly captures what is on the

Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets

2014-02-27 Thread Erik Muller
On 2/27/14, 12:21 , Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: This has been around for several years now - http://sourceforge.net/projects/cisco-conf-rep/ But that's just archiving, like rancid, right? Still doesn't have any correlation to the template-management side of things. While having the

Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets

2014-02-27 Thread Erik Muller
On 2/27/14, 15:52 , Joe Abley wrote: This is not any kind of sensible answer to the original question, but the general approach “give ops people a shell on a box with a rancid repository, encourage them to write scripts that do stuff” has the potential to cause all kinds of good things to happen

Re: Network configuration archiving

2013-10-24 Thread Erik Muller
On 10/24/13 17:25 , Job Snijders wrote: Some might say it took ages to get rancid to do kinda what we want!, but not all software ages well. One might work in environments where archived configurations are needed to even start provisioning, one might desire a separation between actual config and

Re: Ciena 6200 clue?

2013-07-03 Thread Erik Muller
On 7/3/13 23:41 , Phil Bedard wrote: The ALU 7750/7450, etc. routers have a separate routing process/configuration for their OOB mgmt and as of the last time I looked do not support a default gateway. Can you still call it a routing process if it's incapable of routing? -e

Re: IPv6 and HTTPS

2013-04-27 Thread Erik Muller
On 4/27/13 1:22 , Jima wrote: On 2013-04-26 23:08, shawn wilson wrote: There's ways around it for most software but old jetdirect stuff, switches, routers, ip control systems. Things are going to be 6to4 for a while. In fact I won't be surprised to see little hardware boxes that do it for $30

Re: Brocade XMR/MLX VLAN bit counters (Cacti graphs for brocade VLANS) (95% billing).

2013-01-14 Thread Erik Muller
On 1/14/13 9:00 , James Wininger wrote: All, We are running into an issue with Brocade where we are finding it difficult to to graph VLAN interfaces for bits (in/out) across a tagged (trunk) interface. On Cisco this is not an issue. So what we end up with in Cacti is a blank (no data) graph.

Re: Rate shaping in Active E FTTx networks

2012-07-26 Thread Erik Muller
On 7/26/12 12:45 , Jason Lixfeld wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to gauge what operators are doing to handle per-subscriber Internet access PIR bandwidth in Active E FTTx networks. I presume operators would want to limit the each subscriber to a certain PIR, but within that limit, do things like

Re: IPv6 BGP MIBs

2012-01-31 Thread Erik Muller
On 1/31/12 11:42 , chip wrote: Hi all, Can anyone point me to ongoing discussion about IPv6 BGP SNMP MIBs going on in the IETF? As I understand it RFC 4293 was somewhat abandoned by most vendors. Cisco has a new BGPV4-2 Mib but that still doesn't address all the needs. While I can try and

Re: IPv6 Conventions

2011-05-19 Thread Erik Muller
On 5/19/11 3:46 , Owen DeLong wrote: Often, the time delay in DNS changes can be a blocking factor in addressing load issues by moving things around quickly. IP addresses can be moved with much greater agility than the DNS abstraction... And having persistent IP address-to-service mappings

Re: IPv6 gateway, was: Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-17 Thread Erik Muller
On Mon, 16 May 2011, Todd Lyons wrote: Double check the kernel version you have. IIRC kernels before 2.6.20 didn't have the ability to do RELATED,ESTABLISHED in ipv6. This hit me on a CentOS box that I was using as a gateway. I am unaware if there is a version of their 2.6.18 that has the