Re: [c-nsp] 7600 dies a fantastic death - What went wrong?

2010-09-01 Thread Sascha Pollok
Morning, PSes with Output Fail red lights. Upon close investigation it looks [...] Has any seen two PSes seemily die at the same time? Deep down I think I *think* (read: I might be wrong but) that the PSes also switch off and show OUTPUT FAIL when the router is shutdown from the

Re: [c-nsp] 6500/7600

2010-09-01 Thread Sridhar Ayengar
Seth Mattinen wrote: What's the difference between the C6500 and the 7600? Just software? Oh no, you're going to wake Gert :-). I always find Gert's input quite educational. ;) As do I, but being somewhat of a newbie with all this stuff, I find lurking and reading the conversations of

Re: [c-nsp] 7600 dies a fantastic death - What went wrong?

2010-09-01 Thread ML
On 8/31/2010 8:55 PM, Michael Damkot wrote: sounds like you're missing your boot pointers in the config... boot-start-marker boot system disk0:c7600s72033-advipservicesk9-mz.bla-bla-bla.bin boot-end-marker True, there wasn't a boot statement (Doh). I also noticed the SP confreg was 0x0.

Re: [c-nsp] 7200VXR upgrade

2010-09-01 Thread Christopher E. Brown
On 8/31/10 3:20 PM, Adam Greene wrote: Hi, I have a customer with a 7204VXR / NPE300 and 256MB DRAM and the following cards/interfaces: -C7200-IO-FE-MII/RJ45= -PA-8T-V35= (only three serial interfaces in use) -PA-FE-TX -PA-FE-TX (spare) -PA-1GE= It currently

Re: [c-nsp] 7600 dies a fantastic death - What went wrong?

2010-09-01 Thread Phil Mayers
On 01/09/10 01:55, Michael Damkot wrote: sounds like you're missing your boot pointers in the config... boot-start-marker boot system disk0:c7600s72033-advipservicesk9-mz.bla-bla-bla.bin boot-end-marker Not necessarily. I've seen (recent) SSO failures on dual-sup 6500 systems where the

Re: [c-nsp] PA-FE-TX, PA-FE-TX/ISL, PA-2FE-TX, PA-2FE-TX/ISL

2010-09-01 Thread sthaug
The NPE-G2 is better if you want to forward some 1Gbps through the box (configuration-dependent). Bottom line, the NPE-G1/G2 gives you great value with those on-board Gig-E ports. Still not great if you want to handle a line rate DDoS attack with minimum size packets... Steinar Haug,

Re: [c-nsp] PA-FE-TX, PA-FE-TX/ISL, PA-2FE-TX, PA-2FE-TX/ISL

2010-09-01 Thread Tim Franklin
If you are shopping the used market, you may be better off with the 7200 series. The 7500 isnt worth the juice it sucks and even when it was supported, it was an abysmal experience. I'd agree with you on the 7200 preference, and the horrible power usage, but there *were* good times with the

Re: [c-nsp] PA-FE-TX, PA-FE-TX/ISL, PA-2FE-TX, PA-2FE-TX/ISL

2010-09-01 Thread Sridhar Ayengar
Joe Maimon wrote: Real world I would not expect any more than roughly the same throughput through a 7500 RSP4 with VIP2-50 as you will an NPE-400. Of course. However, GEIP+ are significantly cheaper than PA-GEs, and I'm running VIP4-80s. I'd love to run an RSP8 but they still cost $$$.

Re: [c-nsp] PA-FE-TX, PA-FE-TX/ISL, PA-2FE-TX, PA-2FE-TX/ISL

2010-09-01 Thread sthaug
Still not great if you want to handle a line rate DDoS attack with minimum size packets... Agree - but if the budget is tight, some pain might not be avoidable. My take is if you want to handle 1Gbps (or better) on a sustained basis (as opposed to a couple of hundred-Mbps at peak),

Re: [c-nsp] 7600 dies a fantastic death - What went wrong?

2010-09-01 Thread Bøvre Jon Harald
It could also be one power to have insufficient power to run switch: check using show power #sh power system power redundancy mode = redundant system power total = 3806.46 Watts (90.63 Amps @ 42V) system power used = 2041.20 Watts (48.60 Amps @ 42V) system power available = 1765.26

[c-nsp] Anyone running s3223-advipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-33.SXI4a?

2010-09-01 Thread Jens S Andersen
Hello list 2 weeks ago i upgraded my WS-C6503-E/WS-SUP32-GE-3B to ios advipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-33.SXI4a. Since then I've seen 2 cases of layer 2 loop. This switch/router forms a layer 2 ring with 3 other switch/routers (for redundancy). This has ben working for years without problems. Has

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Routers: Performance benchmark

2010-09-01 Thread bored to death
hi, thanks for the reply. the document you pointed out (http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/downloads/765/tools/quickreference/routerperformance.pdf) was good for the start, thank you. but it was very limited. it just had the result for switching of 64Byte frame packets, not any static or

[c-nsp] Enhanced Packet Capture in IOS (EPC)

2010-09-01 Thread Rodney Dunn
http://www.cisco.com/go/epc For those of you that have used it and find it helpful in solving problems in the network and would be willing...could you send me a short quote *offline please* about the value it has been to you and how. Rodney ___

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Routers: Performance benchmark

2010-09-01 Thread Christopher J. Wargaski
Thanks for posting the URL for the router performance matrix. Anyone know of a similar matrix for switches (L2 L3) and firewalls? cjw Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:16:24 +0200 From: B?vre Jon Harald jon.harald.bo...@hafslund.no To: 'bored to death' bored_to_deat...@yahoo.com,        

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Routers: Performance benchmark

2010-09-01 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/1/10 7:55 AM, bored to death wrote: hi, thanks for the reply. the document you pointed out (http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/downloads/765/tools/quickreference/routerperformance.pdf) was good for the start, thank you. but it was very limited. it just had the result for switching

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Routers: Performance benchmark

2010-09-01 Thread Jon Lewis
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, bored to death wrote: the document you pointed out (http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/downloads/765/tools/quickreference/routerperformance.pdf) was good for the start, thank you. but it was very limited. it just had the result for switching of 64Byte frame packets, not any

Re: [c-nsp] PA-FE-TX, PA-FE-TX/ISL, PA-2FE-TX, PA-2FE-TX/ISL

2010-09-01 Thread Mark Tinka
On Wednesday, September 01, 2010 02:24:19 pm sth...@nethelp.no wrote: Still not great if you want to handle a line rate DDoS attack with minimum size packets... Agree - but if the budget is tight, some pain might not be avoidable. My take is if you want to handle 1Gbps (or better) on a

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Routers: Performance benchmark

2010-09-01 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, bored to death wrote: as i know, the normal frame size of ordinary networks are 1500Bytes which is very bigger than 64Byte. for example, in this document, the maximum switching The average is definitely not 1500 bytes, more like 500-700 bytes. Most of packets are either

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Routers: Performance benchmark

2010-09-01 Thread Mark Tinka
On Wednesday, September 01, 2010 10:55:48 pm bored to death wrote: we have universal RFC 2544 for performance benchmarks of network devices like routers , etc. i was wondering and it's just a thought, shouldn't cisco or other vendors give performance specifications of their products based

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Routers: Performance benchmark

2010-09-01 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 07:55:48AM -0700, bored to death wrote: the document you pointed out (http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/downloads/765/tools/quickreference/routerperformance.pdf) was good for the start, thank you. but it was very limited. it just had the result for switching of

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Routers: Performance benchmark

2010-09-01 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/1/2010 09:04, Christopher J. Wargaski wrote: Thanks for posting the URL for the router performance matrix. Anyone know of a similar matrix for switches (L2 L3) and firewalls? Google cisco switch performance ~Seth ___ cisco-nsp mailing list

Re: [c-nsp] Enhanced Packet Capture in IOS (EPC)

2010-09-01 Thread Fred Jordan
A much better link: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/netmgmt/configuration/guide/nm_packet_capture_ps6441_TSD_Products_Configuration_Guide_Chapter.html On 9/1/2010 11:52 AM, Rodney Dunn wrote: http://www.cisco.com/go/epc For those of you that have used it and find it helpful in solving

[c-nsp] 2960S w/10G uplinks

2010-09-01 Thread Kevin Hatem
Anyone have these boxes and pumping a lot (1G thru most of the ports) of traffic thru it? I've seen some older threads reagarding high CPU utilization issues, low buffer concerns, etc. They are fairly iniexpensive compared to a 3560E or X and the oversub is basically 1:1. This e-mail,

Re: [c-nsp] Enhanced Packet Capture in IOS (EPC)

2010-09-01 Thread Rodney Dunn
Yep! Here is the quick wiki page with an example on CSC (Cisco Support Community): https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-5799 I'm working to get the functionality expanded and wanted some direct customer references to this being helpful to speed up issue resolution, reduce down time,

[c-nsp] DRAC Network doubt

2010-09-01 Thread Alessandro Braga
I am responsible to implement a DRAC Network. But I am in doubt of what would be the best way to implement this network, I dont have any experience at all with this type of implementation. I have considered Cisco with Private-VLAN, but my manager doesnt have budget for a network full of Cisco

Re: [c-nsp] 6500/7600

2010-09-01 Thread John Osmon
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:46:10PM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote: [...] (By profession, I'm a coder -- I do this network stuff in my spare time because I think it's cool.) It's all cool. But we're cooler. :-) ___ cisco-nsp mailing list