Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6513 goes straight into rommon

2008-04-23 Thread Peter Rathlev
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 21:52 -0500, Jonathan Charles wrote: We just deployed a 6513E with a Sup720. It is running IOS, but when it reboots it goes straight into rommon and you need to type boot to get it to load... once you do that it boots fine... My worry is that this site has power

Re: [c-nsp] Blocking VTP

2008-04-23 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 01:55:54PM +0800, Daniel Hooper wrote: ... I really need to start running VTP across our network as we've got far to many VLAN's and way to many switches to be logging into to provision a new customer or VLAN ... Don't use VTP. We run a medium-sized data center

[c-nsp] Standby mode switchport status

2008-04-23 Thread Tom Storey
Hi all, I have a 2940 switch with an SFP based gigabit uplink port. Im plugging it into an Alcatel radio unit, which seems to be reporting that the link is up (there is a tick showing up in the management interface that represents Port Up which also goes away when I unplug the fibre), but on the

Re: [c-nsp] Blocking VTP

2008-04-23 Thread Skeeve Stevens
I can't believe there isn't: int blah0/0 vtp block in/out ...Skeeve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gert Doering Sent: Wednesday, 23 April 2008 5:16 PM To: Daniel Hooper Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Blocking VTP

Re: [c-nsp] Standby mode switchport status

2008-04-23 Thread Peter Rathlev
Hi Tom, Could you paste the running-config interface Gi0/1 section? Are you using some kind og EC protocol, like LACP or PAgP? If so, try pasting a show etherchannel X detail, where X is the Port-channel interface Gi0/1 is part of. Regards, Peter On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 16:27 +0900, Tom Storey

Re: [c-nsp] Blocking VTP

2008-04-23 Thread Daniel Hooper
You can take away the VTP hassle .. change switch manufacturer :) Foundry gear looks hot these days. -Dan -Original Message- From: Skeeve Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 23 April 2008 3:33 PM To: 'Gert Doering'; Daniel Hooper Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net

Re: [c-nsp] Standby mode switchport status

2008-04-23 Thread Tom Storey
As far as I remember, you should insert SFP and then reload switch. If you inserted SFP after boot - SFP port will be disabled, because onboard 100FX port will be selected as 'active uplink'. Bingo that was it. I didnt think to restart it, as I didnt think it would be something as simple as

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 3550-12G VSI stops routing traffic

2008-04-23 Thread randal k
I thought so too, except that we have 3% CPU usage; we have other 3550s with 30+ VSI interfaces moving considerably more traffic without issue. The anecdotes I've read say that # of routes is what makes them fall over, and we're not even close. 1- u mentioned u transferred the affected VLANs to

[c-nsp] GbE over SDH

2008-04-23 Thread MKS
Hi list We are getting N times STM-1 connections delivered over GbE (SDH network). Currently we are running MPLS-TE over these GbE for loadbalancing. The problem is that we have seen failures where we loose part of the capacity, e.g. loose 2 STM out of 4, and we are unable to detect this failure,

Re: [c-nsp] Standby mode switchport status

2008-04-23 Thread Brian Turnbow
Standby is for backup interfaces. Do you have switchport backup interfaace xxx in your config? Regards Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Storey Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:28 AM To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: [c-nsp]

Re: [c-nsp] GbE over SDH

2008-04-23 Thread Paolo Lucente
Hi MKS, if the LSR hasn't visibility into the SDH layer and there is a separate box doing EOS, there is not much accurate actions the LSR can take by itself. For example, the LSR could send probes across the link and detect packet loss or increased delay either of which would be good hints for

Re: [c-nsp] Blocking VTP

2008-04-23 Thread Phil Mayers
Skeeve Stevens wrote: I can't believe there isn't: I'm sorry to say whether you believe it or not has little to do with the reality of the situation. To the best of my (by no means encyclopaedic) knowledge, there is no such thing. In any event, Tassos has already suggested: 1) make the port

[c-nsp] 7201 rack mounting

2008-04-23 Thread Dean Smith
Anyone else shocked at the appalling rack mounting supplied for 7201 ? Single ears at either front or back is simply not good enough for that sort of box. Look at any 1U server (equivalent value/weight) and you'll get a decent adjustable rail that can go front to back and offer a proper stable

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6513 goes straight into rommon

2008-04-23 Thread Jon Lewis
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Dale Shaw wrote: Jonathan, This should sort that out: conf t config-register 0x2102 end copy run start ! or wr mem sh boot remote command switch sh boot In my experience, if the RP shows the correct confreg value, and the SP doesn't, a wr mem on the RP usually

Re: [c-nsp] 7201 rack mounting

2008-04-23 Thread Dean Smith
So would that be a lot 7204/7206 which of course are 3U with substantial brackets.or lots of 1U 7201 ? - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dean Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:30 AM Subject: Re: [c-nsp] 7201 rack

Re: [c-nsp] 7201 rack mounting

2008-04-23 Thread jason . plank
racked a lot of 7200's. never had a problem with them drooping alarmingly. tighten your screws. -- Regards, Jason Plank CCIE #16560 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Original message -- From: Dean Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone else shocked at the appalling rack

Re: [c-nsp] Blocking VTP

2008-04-23 Thread Brian Turnbow
There was set vtp port x/x disable in catos at least for 6500s . I don't think it ever worked it's way into ios though. Number 2 will do the job for you. Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Mayers Sent: Wednesday, April 23,

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS L3 VPN over TE - Load Balancing per Customer

2008-04-23 Thread David Curran
+1 We've gotten great results with IGP/BGP tuning. From: Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:33:26 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Conversation: [c-nsp] MPLS L3 VPN over TE - Load Balancing per Customer Subject: Re: [c-nsp] MPLS L3

Re: [c-nsp] as-override

2008-04-23 Thread Gary Roberton
Peter / Dean Thanks for your input on this. I'm glad (and not so glad) that other people are seeing the same issue. It is a shame that SPs are not implementing these commands when this is exactly what they are designed for. Anyone know why an SP would not add a remove-private-as command to

[c-nsp] Redistributing static routes in BGP

2008-04-23 Thread Gary Roberton
All I have a static route that I am redistributing into BGP. However, I only want to redistribute it if the next hop is available. For example, if I have ip route 88.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 10.35.1.1, I only want to redistribute it if the 10.35.1.1 next hop is still available. I won't go into detail

Re: [c-nsp] 7201 rack mounting

2008-04-23 Thread Benny Amorsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: racked a lot of 7200's. never had a problem with them drooping alarmingly. tighten your screws. It IS a problem with 1U front mounted stuff. Even 3750's suffer from it. The solution is to turn the brackets around and move the rack posts back. This doesn't work very

Re: [c-nsp] 7201 rack mounting

2008-04-23 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Benny Amorsen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: racked a lot of 7200's. never had a problem with them drooping alarmingly. tighten your screws. It IS a problem with 1U front mounted stuff. Even 3750's suffer from it. The solution is to turn the brackets around and

Re: [c-nsp] Blocking VTP

2008-04-23 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 01:55:54PM +0800, Daniel Hooper wrote: I work for a company with the exact same problem, we interconnect with a bucketload of other carriers providers with dot1q trunks and I haven't been able to find a way to block VTP on those ports, the worst bit is I really need to

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6513 goes straight into rommon

2008-04-23 Thread Jonathan Charles
6513(config)#config 6513(config)#config-register 0x2102 6513(config)#^Z 6513#wr Building configuration... [OK] 6513#remote command switch show boot BOOT variable = bootdisk:s3223-ipbase_wan-mz.122-18.SXF8.bin,12; CONFIG_FILE variable does not exist BOOTLDR variable does not exist Configuration

Re: [c-nsp] Blocking VTP

2008-04-23 Thread Peter Rathlev
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 13:27 +0200, Brian Turnbow wrote: There was set vtp port x/x disable in catos at least for 6500s . I don't think it ever worked it's way into ios though. 12.2(33)SXH seems to have something called Per port VTP enable/disable, where you can put vtp disable under an

Re: [c-nsp] 7201 rack mounting

2008-04-23 Thread Peter Rathlev
Not really on topic, but we just finished mounting three 6509-V-E chassis; I know they come with some stub shelves, but otherwise they just hang in seven 4 mm long screws in each side. (It doesn't matter how many rack mouting nuts you use, the panel you fasten to the rack is fastened to the

Re: [c-nsp] Redistributing static routes in BGP

2008-04-23 Thread Adam Armstrong
Gary Roberton wrote: All I have a static route that I am redistributing into BGP. However, I only want to redistribute it if the next hop is available. For example, if I have ip route 88.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 10.35.1.1, I only want to redistribute it if the 10.35.1.1 next hop is still available.

Re: [c-nsp] as-override

2008-04-23 Thread Peter Rathlev
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 15:27 +0100, Gary Roberton wrote: Thanks for your input on this. I'm glad (and not so glad) that other people are seeing the same issue. It is a shame that SPs are not implementing these commands when this is exactly what they are designed for. Anyone know why an SP

Re: [c-nsp] Blocking VTP

2008-04-23 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 07:01:39PM +0200, Peter Rathlev wrote: It's probably something they lifted from CatOS; I heard that it was their plan to make the SX train have the same features as CatOS... Do you happen to know if that would that include GVRP? -- Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [c-nsp] Redistributing static routes in BGP

2008-04-23 Thread Peter Rathlev
I'll second Adams point -- BGP will only announce your static route if it's already in your routing table. There's a caveat though: The static route might well be in your routing table even when you'd expect it to have disappeared. A static route pointing to a host on a connected interface might

Re: [c-nsp] Blocking VTP

2008-04-23 Thread Tassos Chatzithomaoglou
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/lanswitch/command/reference/lsw_u1.html#wp1013452 I guess enabling vtp on your internal ports and disabling it on your external ones would accomplish the needed security. I don't know what happens if global vtp (on) and per-port vtp (off) are configured

Re: [c-nsp] Redistributing static routes in BGP

2008-04-23 Thread Tassos Chatzithomaoglou
Peter Rathlev wrote on 23/4/2008 8:48 μμ: (Or convince Cisco to implement BFD for static routes in regular IOS...) Regards, Peter Isn't that supported in SRC? Or maybe i misunderstood the regular keyword... -- Tassos ___ cisco-nsp mailing

Re: [c-nsp] GbE over SDH

2008-04-23 Thread Clinton Work
I don't know if the service providers equipment is MEF certified, but MEF 16 / E-LMI might help here. Some Cisco equipment already supports E-LMI (ME3750, ME3400, 7600) and more will in the future. I know that the Nortel OM3500/OM6500 boxes which provide GbE over SDH services support at

Re: [c-nsp] 7201 rack mounting

2008-04-23 Thread Fred Reimer
You have several things to consider before you start worrying about the 14 screws. First is the shear force necessary to break the screws, and second is the fact that a properly mounted chassis will result in the friction between the mounting gear and the rack post taking up most of the weight

[c-nsp] Adjust TCP MSS in Cisco

2008-04-23 Thread alaerte.vidali
Hi, How efficient (regarding CPU resources consuming in router) is adjusting MSS on Cisco to avoid fragmentation? (for high traffic rate) ip tcp adjust-mss 1400 Thanks, Alaerte ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net

Re: [c-nsp] 7201 rack mounting

2008-04-23 Thread Peter Rathlev
Well, seems I was overlooking some simple facts about the mounting. Thanks for the points on and off list. And yes, of cource Cisco has done the calculations. To my untrained eyes it just appeared unimpressive. I stand corrected. On top of that it was OT. :-) The drooping of 1U boxen is the real

[c-nsp] show mac-address dynamic interface

2008-04-23 Thread Ramcharan, Vijay A
I am not sure whether this is normal behavior or not. I was looking into a problem where a server appears to hang network connections to it at about 15 minute idle intervals. I checked the usual suspects, speed, duplex, port errors etc. No discrepancies there. The switch in question is a 6509E

Re: [c-nsp] GbE over SDH

2008-04-23 Thread Ibrahim Abo Zaid
Hi MKS does your EOS ESP supports Link capacity adjustment Scheme (LCAS) ? if yes , so its SNMP MIB should contain some objects about links failures and restoration so you can monitor these condition via SNMP Traps . best regards --Abo Zaid On 4/23/08, MKS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list

Re: [c-nsp] Adjust TCP MSS in Cisco

2008-04-23 Thread Pete S.
Very minimal to negligible from what I've seen on up to 45m links. Just be sure to adjust on both sides. Much more efficient than clearing the DF bit, and allowing the remote side to reassemble. On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 2:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How efficient (regarding CPU

Re: [c-nsp] 7201 rack mounting

2008-04-23 Thread Justin Shore
Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Benny Amorsen wrote: We've had to do this in many of our wiring closets. The 3750s are usually OK, but the 3750-Es are deeper and heavier and really need to be center mounted. The 3560-Es are deeper and heavier still, reaching a point where

Re: [c-nsp] 7201 rack mounting

2008-04-23 Thread Justin Shore
The ME6524s had some of the best Cisco brackets I've seen to date. I don't believe they wrap under the chassis like the Cabletron ones I was referring to but they are however very long. They are better than a foot long if memory serves me correctly. ME6524s are not light either. Peter

Re: [c-nsp] Redistributing static routes in BGP

2008-04-23 Thread Ibrahim Abo Zaid
Yes Gary this is a default behavior performed by BGP Scanner process which validates NH reachability and manages BGP advertisements and BGP doesn't advertise routes not exist in RIB but if u configure a static route with NH as IP instead of interface , even if the interface went down and its

Re: [c-nsp] Blocking VTP

2008-04-23 Thread Asbjorn Hojmark - Lists
I can't believe there isn't: int blah0/0 vtp block in/out In recent software: vtp mode off -A ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at

Re: [c-nsp] show mac-address dynamic interface

2008-04-23 Thread Tassos Chatzithomaoglou
I have seen the same output in cards than have double connections (2x20) to the fabric (i.e. X6704-10GE WS-X6748-GE-TX) and use DFC cards. But that didn't cause any problem. I guess ... FE = Forwarding/Fabric Engine or Fabric Enabled? -- Tassos Ramcharan, Vijay A wrote on 23/4/2008 10:03

[c-nsp] ASAs and multiple context mode...

2008-04-23 Thread Jeff Kell
Have an interesting issue, and no testbed available to evaluate my options, curious if anyone has been there, done that... Have a pair of ASAs running multiple contexts in active/active failover mode. They are basically multiple contexts with an inside and outside interface. The insides are

[c-nsp] R: Re: Blocking VTP

2008-04-23 Thread Brian Turnbow
The catos command blocks the processing and forwarding of vtp packets recieved on the interface. i'm not sure about how the ios version works. - Messaggio originale - Da: Tassos Chatzithomaoglou [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: mercoledi 23 aprile 2008 20.14 A: Peter Rathlev [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [c-nsp] Core to access links. Use single etherchannel?

2008-04-23 Thread Ibrahim Abo Zaid
Hi Grant i think there is no way to do that in software unless u can get Giga Ethernet bundling modules but the other way is to rely on routing protocols instead of L2 features best regards --Abo Zaid On 4/23/08, Grant Moerschel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all. We have a 6509 core

Re: [c-nsp] Core to access links. Use single etherchannel?

2008-04-23 Thread Laurent Geyer
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Grant Moerschel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it a viable and recommended option to instead portchannel those two gig ports on both sides to both double the bandwidth and eliminate spanning tree issues? If so, on the core switch side should one gig link be on,

Re: [c-nsp] ASAs and multiple context mode...

2008-04-23 Thread Joerg Mayer
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 05:05:26PM -0400, Jeff Kell wrote: If this were IOS, I'd just copy straight to startup-config and reload, but the ASA's don't seem to want to play that game. Interesting that it doesn't work. But how about the following: Save the new startup config to

Re: [c-nsp] Core to access links. Use single etherchannel?

2008-04-23 Thread Pete Templin
Grant Moerschel wrote: Greetings all. We have a 6509 core with dual trunked layer 2 access switches connected on gig ports. So we use spanning tree in case one of the core to access connections fails therefore one link is always blocking. I'd like to get some opinions about improving this. Is

[c-nsp] Content Service Gateway and Friendster site.

2008-04-23 Thread andi rusiawan
Hi All, Does anybody here using CSG ? If yes, do you have issue regarding GPRS user problem accessing Friendster site ? I just want to make sure the problem is on the CSG not the other part of the system (billing quota server for example). Because after bypassing the traffic from the CSG,