[f-nsp] Transparent VLL through XMR and J-6350

2009-04-14 Thread Brad Fleming
but traffic does not dump out the other side. I'm 99.9% sure I'm missing something basic but I don't have a good configuration example for this setup. Any help or insight would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks in advance! -brad fleming -- Brad Fleming Network Engineer Kansas Research

Re: [f-nsp] Transparent VLL through XMR and J-6350

2009-04-15 Thread Brad Fleming
to share? It would be greatly appreciated! Brad Fleming On Apr 14, 2009, at 8:49 PM, David Ball wrote: Foundry has a slightly different take on making a service 'transparent' (at least from what I was used to with JNPR). To make it transparent, you change the tag-type to something that won't

[f-nsp] Module Reset Due to TM Errors?

2010-03-11 Thread Brad Fleming
We just saw this on one of our NetIron XMR 4000 devices: Mar 11 19:03:00:N:System: Module 1 powered on Mar 11 19:02:59:N:System: Module 1 powered off Mar 11 19:02:59:I:System: Interface ethernet 1/20, state down - unspecified Mar 11 19:02:59:I:System: Interface ethernet 1/19, state down -

Re: [f-nsp] Module Reset Due to TM Errors?

2010-03-26 Thread Brad Fleming
any of your experiences and for any feedback or insights. -- Brad Fleming On Mar 11, 2010, at 8:44 PM, Brad Fleming wrote: We just saw this on one of our NetIron XMR 4000 devices: Mar 11 19:03:00:N:System: Module 1 powered on Mar 11 19:02:59:N:System: Module 1 powered off Mar 11 19:02:59

Re: [f-nsp] Module Reset Due to TM Errors?

2010-03-27 Thread Brad Fleming
. I hope this helps and if you'd like a dump of our ticket please let me know and I'll forward it unicast. :D -- Brad Fleming On Mar 27, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Jan Pedersen wrote: We are using 3rd parts optics to 95 % in our NetIrons, and have had quite a few Resets due to TM Errors. But we don’t

[f-nsp] ve in VPLS on NetIron XMR?

2010-06-15 Thread Brad Fleming
We're running IronWare 4.0.0.1d on NetIron XMRs. Is it possible to tie a local VE into a VPLS without looping ports together? Based upon the ConfigGuide, I don't think its possible without looping ports but I thought I'd ask... figure some of you all have been down this road and know the

Re: [f-nsp] BigIron RX LAG load sharing behaviour

2010-10-29 Thread Brad Fleming
I don't believe there's a way to reconfigure the BigIron; however, you'll likely get even load balancing if you can create two separate sessions / flows. Is that possible in your situation? On Oct 29, 2010, at 3:40 AM, Dana wrote: Hi all, I have noticed a little problem with our LAG

[f-nsp] XMR Upgrade Script

2010-11-01 Thread Brad Fleming
Hello all, Has anyone ever used the upgrade scripting features on a NetIron XMR? ie: copy tftp system 1.1.1.1 blah.txt Is there any special syntax required? Any oddities with line break types or other gotchas? Can you only issue copy commands or can the script perform housekeeping duties

[f-nsp] Outbound ACL Mirroring

2010-11-15 Thread Brad Fleming
Is it possible to mirror outbound / egress packets via ACL on an XMR with 5.1.00b? I'm guessing not since I see no outbound ACL reference in the config guide and some quick testing in the lab yields unfavorable results. Thought I'd hit this mailing list in case I'm missing something

Re: [f-nsp] Securing Xmr

2010-11-26 Thread Brad Fleming
Another one to take a look toward is: ip rate-limit arp policy-name policy name You can find it on page 706 (of 2718) in the 5.1.00 Config Guide. And if you're really concerned abut broadcast traffic, an L2 ACL on ingress ports with rate-limiters can be very effective with little effort.

[f-nsp] Life of a Packet in NetIron Series Diagram?

2010-11-29 Thread Brad Fleming
Does anyone have a Life of a Packet diagram or document for traffic flowing through the NetIron XMR/MLX series gear? I'd like something that shows processing order of different pieces of the hardware and software in a format that can be distributed to Tier 2 and Tier 3 admins engineers.

Re: [f-nsp] Life of a Packet in NetIron Series Diagram?

2010-11-29 Thread Brad Fleming
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Re: [f-nsp] VE usage stats via SNMP

2011-03-29 Thread Brad Fleming
If you have an MLXe you could buy the 8x10G Cards, they will have that feature. I believe the new 24x1Gbps card also has these counters(?). I don't have one to confirm though. ___ foundry-nsp mailing list foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net

Re: [f-nsp] TE for the same VLL peers

2011-03-31 Thread Brad Fleming
Message- From: foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net ] On Behalf Of Brad Fleming Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 12:42 PM To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: [f-nsp] TE for the same VLL peers Hello all, If you have two VLLs both pointed at the same

[f-nsp] XMR4000 Rack Adaptors

2011-06-17 Thread Brad Fleming
Does anyone have a suggestion on 23-to-19 inch rack adaptors that work particularly well with the MLX/XMR series of gear? The only ones I have experience with are way too flimsy for this application and it seems there's tons to choose from. Any suggestions (other than buy a new rack) would be

Re: [f-nsp] XMR4000 Switch Fabric Modules

2011-08-01 Thread Brad Fleming
General heads up: All 23 of the switch fabs have been spoken for at this time. Thanks for helping us get them moved quickly! :D -brad On Aug 1, 2011, at 11:33 AM, Brad Fleming wrote: All, We recently upgraded all of our XMR 4000 nodes with high-capacity switch fabric modules. We are now

Re: [f-nsp] MLX-32 BGP Routes

2011-10-05 Thread Brad Fleming
Specifically, are you trying to get 2Mil routes into the BGP protocol table, 2Mil routes into the general IP route table, or 2Mil routes into the FIB? On Oct 5, 2011, at 3:01 PM, Anand Valmiki wrote: You should be able to get 2 Million routes in the BGP table. I have two BGP peers sending

Re: [f-nsp] Packet loss to ve on MLX

2012-06-29 Thread Brad Fleming
On Jun 13, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Brian Taylor wrote: We have an MLX that has two devices that send a ping every second to their gateway as an heartbeat. Both of these are directly plugged in to copper Gigabit ports on separate ni-mlx-20-port-1g-copper modules. They are untagged into the same

Re: [f-nsp] Prefix (dis-)aggregation prefix (re-)aggregation

2013-03-04 Thread Brad Fleming
On Feb 27, 2013, at 4:04 PM, Alex HM alex.hm.l...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I think this is a rather hot topic at the moment. The Internet table keeps growing at a steady pace, more and more networks practice prefixes disaggregation, especially smaller ISPs. I do not know what are they

Re: [f-nsp] Smokeping and Brocade gear

2013-03-27 Thread Brad Fleming
Sure! On Mar 27, 2013, at 1:36 AM, Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr yous...@720.fr wrote: Hi Brad, Thank you for the feedback, I will take a look at this. Can I contact you privatly to discuss this ? Best regards. Y. Le 26 mars 2013 à 19:17, Brad Fleming bdfle...@gmail.com a écrit

[f-nsp] Experience with 5.4.00c on XMR?

2013-05-08 Thread Brad Fleming
Anyone on the list have experience running IronWare 5.4.00c on XMR4000s with high capacity switch fabs, 1x20G, and 4x10G line cards? We're planning software updates for the summer and that looks like a reasonably deep release but it's only been on the street for about 6 weeks. Just wondering if

Re: [f-nsp] Loading code on XMR before reload

2013-07-30 Thread Brad Fleming
I did this exact process late last week on our 14 XMRs. We moved from 5.1.00b to 5.4.00d. I've uploaded new code a few hours early on our previous 5-6 software updates and never had an issue. This time I made it through the first two nodes with no problems by on the 3rd the node became

[f-nsp] RFP on VE Interfaces Roadmap

2013-08-29 Thread Brad Fleming
Any chance someone on the list knows if / when the XMR or MLXe series will be able to do reverse path checks on VE interfaces?___ foundry-nsp mailing list foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp

Re: [f-nsp] RFP on VE Interfaces Roadmap

2013-08-30 Thread Brad Fleming
29, 2013, at 3:05 PM, Brad Fleming bdfle...@gmail.com wrote: Any chance someone on the list knows if / when the XMR or MLXe series will be able to do reverse path checks on VE interfaces? ___ foundry-nsp mailing list foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net

[f-nsp] ACL matching on multicast sources

2013-09-18 Thread Brad Fleming
I'm having an issue trying to match traffic based on IP source of a multicast group. Traffic is flowing through a VE interface if that makes any difference. I know the traffic is actually moving because I'm watching the video broadcast on my laptop right now via VLC. I'm also seeing traffic

Re: [f-nsp] MLX throughput issues

2015-02-18 Thread Brad Fleming
errors like this suggest replacing the hardware? Frank From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Brad Fleming Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 3:10 PM To: Josh Galvez Cc: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [f-nsp] MLX throughput issues

Re: [f-nsp] MLX throughput issues

2015-02-13 Thread Brad Fleming
Over the years we’ve seen odd issues where one of the switch-fabric-links will “wigout” and some of the data moving between cards will get corrupted. When this happens we power cycle each switch fab one at a time using this process: 1) Shutdown SFM #3 2) Wait 1 minute 3) Power SFM #3 on again 4)