Re: [c-nsp] ASA vs. ASR for large Wireless NAT deployment ?

2011-11-28 Thread P C
I think t-mobile is running public customer trials with IPV6-only customers and NAT64. You can sign up here: http://www.personal.psu.edu/dvm105/blogs/ipv6/2010/07/t-mobile-ipv6-open-trial.html (google cache link to more details since google groups is throwing 500 errors right now when accessed

Re: [c-nsp] keeping ASA-5585s stable

2011-11-28 Thread P C
asa823-10-smp-k8 is very stable for me on ASA 5580s (not 85) and large-scale ipsec RA vpn termination. Sounds like you are hitting a bug though, I'd push for escalation in TAC. You have a traceback and can grab the crashinfo file off the flash. They should be able to get a developer involved to

Re: [c-nsp] LAC/LNS Routers - 7200 EOL

2011-11-28 Thread P C
7200 is just announced... it does still have several years of support left though. I didn't think a properly licensed 7201 was that much less expensive than an ASR on a per-session basis, was it? On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 5:42 PM, ar ar_...@yahoo.com wrote: Any other options for LAC/LNS

Re: [c-nsp] Operational experiences of aggressive bgp keepalive timers in private-IP (non-internet) networks?

2011-11-11 Thread P C
.  In the mix of devices were various generations of 7200's which would have far less control plane processing power than current ISR's David ... On 04/11/2011, at 11:39 AM, P C wrote: What experiences have you had using very aggressive BGP timers on ISR's connecting to a service provider IP VPN

Re: [c-nsp] Reciprocal console connections for CPEs

2011-11-04 Thread P C
Done this too. Daisy-chaining router-aux ports is enough to save a truck roll more times than you'd think, when the justification for OOB is not present but $3 worth of cables is. An even better solution is a console server on 3g (carriers like ATT in the USA will set up a private IP network/APN

[c-nsp] Operational experiences of aggressive bgp keepalive timers in private-IP (non-internet) networks?

2011-11-03 Thread P C
What experiences have you had using very aggressive BGP timers on ISR's connecting to a service provider IP VPN/MPLS services on T1 and Ethernet links? Assuming the proper QOS is in place, have values as low as 1/3 or 2/6 proven reliable in production operations?

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

2011-09-06 Thread P C
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 probably a Cisco 5540/5580 which is either 5k or 10k sessions per unit. If you need stateful failover, buy 2 and run

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

2011-09-06 Thread P C
a 5580 out of the water... On paper. On Sep 6, 2011 8:06 PM, P C pc50...@gmail.com 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 probably a Cisco 5540/5580 which

[c-nsp] 7201 encryption throughput without any acceleration cards?

2011-08-10 Thread P C
Does anyone have any idea what type of AES-128 encryption throughput could be expected on a Cisco 7201 without any additional accelerator cards installed? ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net

Re: [c-nsp] BGP transit selection from source customer network

2011-08-03 Thread P C
Only PBR is really required to make a certain netblock/source address go to a particular egress interface. It should work as desired But be warned... PBR/source based routing is process switched on some platforms and results in a large performance hit. It can also suffer from some redundancy

[c-nsp] Current recommendations for publishing a web site on IPV6 using Cisco products (Router, Firewall, Load Balancer)?

2011-08-03 Thread P C
I have a cisco-based network that is largely similar to this: 7200 router---Cisco ASA--Cisco ACE---Web Servers I would like your opinions and thoughts on the options available for publishing the web servers on the internet in ipv6. Today I have an IPV6 ARIN allocation and IPV6 connectivity to

Re: [c-nsp] Current recommendations for publishing a web site on IPV6 using Cisco products (Router, Firewall, Load Balancer)?

2011-08-03 Thread P C
. The financial driver is not that great. On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Gert Doering g...@greenie.muc.de wrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 12:10:51PM -0600, P C wrote: * Native IPV6 is out.  The 7200 and ASA do it.  So do the web servers.  However, I was very disappointed to see _zero_ support

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco ISR G2 and comp-lzs

2011-06-30 Thread P C
Traditional applications of this have been low speed links (Dial-up, ISDN, etc.). I've never tried it on anything faster. I will say, generally per-packet compression isn't as efficient as you might hope. On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Mark Mason mma...@jackhenry.com wrote: To me it seems

[c-nsp] Should the AS # listed under the BGP AGGREGATOR attribute be the same as the AS # used to bring up a bgp session in a multiple VRF/AS router? Or the global routing table AS #?

2011-06-30 Thread P C
I have a prefix I announce (Let's say 1.1.1.0/24) via a VRF-lite instance on a Cisco 7200 router.  I announce this prefix with the aggregate-address command, which causes the aggregator attribute to be added.  The router when adding this attribute is using the global routing table's autonomous

Re: [c-nsp] micro bursts

2011-03-05 Thread P C
It's probably called As it Happens. http://www.abrahams.co.nz/asithappens/ On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Daniel Hooper dhoo...@gold.net.au wrote: 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

[c-nsp] Using IP SLA to monitor a multicast network? Is it supported or possible?

2011-03-04 Thread P C
I would like to use IP SLA to monitor udp jitter/loss over multicast. Is this supported? What about just packet loss? I can't find any mention of if it can be done or not in the documentation. The only mention on google I found is from 6 years ago here (see pdf pages 85-87):

[c-nsp] Proper Multicast group assignment for SSM/Source Specific Multicast?

2010-09-29 Thread P C
When assigning administratively scoped multicast groups for SSM/Source Specific multicast usage, what is the appropriate range to use? I know 232.0.0.0/8 is a general SSM range, but is there a subsection that is best used for administratively-scoped or internal-use only addresses? In the ASM

Re: [c-nsp] Why hard-setting speed and duplex on Fast Ethernet is bad

2010-08-23 Thread P C
I always auto-negotiate on anything deployed in the last 5 years for two reasons: 1) I've seen more undetected errors from mis-configured manual speed/duplex on a link, than problems prevents by hard-coding devices. 2) As a praticle matter, most new deployment seem to be gigabit and copper

[c-nsp] Bulk SNMP scan for an IP range tool?

2010-08-23 Thread P C
I am looking for a tool/script which will scan some specific arbitrary OIDs within an IP range or provided IP list and dump the data to a file suitable for import into Excel. Device count is in the thousands; so being multithreaded is a big bonus. Before I try to write something in bash .. does

Re: [c-nsp] ASA 8.3

2010-08-17 Thread P C
You may want to ask TAC for the latest Interim or disable SIP inspection if you don't need it and see if either helps. It may not help you, but in 8.0.5.x Cisco started mucking around with SIP inspection; perhaps to fix the security vulnerability. At one place in our network it broke some

Re: [c-nsp] pix vs asa

2010-08-05 Thread P C
If your pix runs 7.0 or higher, the commands are virtuall identical for the same corresponding code of ASA. In fact for a long time, the binaries were the same. If it's 6.3 on the pix, there's some changee. If this is for a migration, your best using the configuration migration tool found on

[c-nsp] Safe debug commands for ATM DSL PPPoE troubleshooting?

2010-07-28 Thread P C
We have a Cisco 7201 which takes in an ATM DS3 from the telco on which ADSL connections running PPPoE are terminated. At times when troubleshooting using all other methods fail, we need to debug connection problems for an individual site or PVC. However with the quantity of connections on the

[c-nsp] 12.4(15)T12 - 15.0M ATM ADSL PPPoE pre-clone removed, idle statistics no longer tracker, performance increases, and other undocumented improvements?

2010-05-25 Thread P C
I just updated my 7201 from 12.4(15)T12 to 15.0M to resolve an issue with RIP. During the process, I've noticed a few changes: 1) (config)#virtual-template 2 pre-clone 500 % Command ignored (deprecated post 12.2S) Virtual-template pre-clone seems to be removed. It mentions version 12.2S, which

[c-nsp] Cisco 7201 -- Differences between the 12.2 images and the usual 12.4/15 images?

2010-03-08 Thread P C
I'm deploying a Cisco 7200 series router. I've used ISRs in the past many times, but have never touched any 7200 series (or non-ISR for that matter) hardware. Can anyone explain to me the purpose of the 12.2 images I see on CCO for this device? These images seem to have a different naming and

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco VPN and 64 bit Windows

2009-12-10 Thread P C
Yes (at least cisco ASA, not sure about IOS) will works fine with the built in Windows client. (particularly useful for windows mobile devices without begin extorted for a SSL vpn license, and then a mobile license on top of it!). The only issue is without using certs, there's no tunnel-group

Re: [c-nsp] IOS Version for 7206VXR

2009-12-04 Thread P C
Latest 12.4 mainline if it supports everything you need and runs on your platform -- it's pretty mature at this point. If you need a 12.4T feature, then the latest rebuild of 12.4(15)T are very stable releases. They are on something like T9 or T10 right now. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:05 PM,

[c-nsp] DSL Aggregation equipment and sizing questions/recommendations?

2009-12-03 Thread P C
I need to terminate 2,000 DSL circuits delievered to me from a telco over a an ATM DS3. I was hoping someone here could offer some equipment recommendations that they feel are suitable for terminating this traffic, as I'm having trouble understanding all the IDB and PVC limits offered by the