Re: [c-nsp] Sup720 software forwarding

2013-03-11 Thread Peter Rathlev
On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 04:15 -0600, William McCall wrote: On 03/08/2013 09:57 AM, Peter Rathlev wrote: Is there a way to rate-limit this kind of punting? Standard mls rate-limit doesn't seem to have anything useful, unless I'm just too tired to see it. Looks like CoPP might do it in

Re: [c-nsp] Private IP in SP Core

2013-03-11 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013, Gordon Bryan wrote: Also, even in a completely private core, a PE still becomes exposed to the outside world on its PE-to-CE interface when delivering Internet services. Has anyone developed any proficient methods for locking down these interfaces and making them

Re: [c-nsp] Private IP in SP Core

2013-03-11 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2013-03-10 21:44 +), Gordon Bryan wrote: I like the concept of private addressing (core hiding being one) but having never seen it deployed in anger I'm concerned that it might not be as simple as it seems and may break other things. I've read that traceroute and PMTUD are at risk

Re: [c-nsp] Private IP in SP Core

2013-03-11 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 09:44:12PM +, Gordon Bryan wrote: I like the concept of private addressing (core hiding being one) but having never seen it deployed in anger I'm concerned that it might not be as simple as it seems and may break other things. I've read that traceroute and

[c-nsp] BGP Route Dampening

2013-03-11 Thread Ahmed Hilmy
Hello Expert, If i am a transit ISP, is it recommanded to enable dampening feature ? Regards, Ahmed ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at

Re: [c-nsp] Option 82

2013-03-11 Thread M K
Thanks for the kind replyWhat i am trying to do is that I have WiMAX network and ASN GW , we are trying to remove the ASN GW from the network and get the WiMAX authenticated from the router/switch without any authentication system BR, Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 19:27:08 +0100 From:

Re: [c-nsp] BGP Route Dampening

2013-03-11 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2013-03-11 11:23 +0300), Ahmed Hilmy wrote: If i am a transit ISP, is it recommanded to enable dampening feature ? If you want to be my Transit ISP, it's highly inadvisable. Fixing dampening would be very easy, just make it negative local_pref penalty, instead of removing it from RIB. It

[c-nsp] Route-Reflector Sub-optimal Routing

2013-03-11 Thread sherif mostafa
Hello All, Does anyone know exactly what's meant by sub-optimal routing issues ? Is there any method to allow the Route-Reflector to send all routes to clients (not the best one) ? Thank you Best Regards, Sherif

Re: [c-nsp] Route-Reflector Sub-optimal Routing

2013-03-11 Thread Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)
Does anyone know exactly what's meant by sub-optimal routing issues ? it means that a RR makes a routing decision on its client's behalf, and its best path might not be necessarily the one the clients would have picked (especially when the decision is based on the IGP metric to the next-hop).

Re: [c-nsp] Route-Reflector Sub-optimal Routing

2013-03-11 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2013-03-11 08:45 +), sherif mostafa wrote: Does anyone know exactly what's meant by sub-optimal routing issues ? Packets taking path which is not most desirable. Is there any method to allow the Route-Reflector to send all routes to clients (not the best one) ? There is BGP

Re: [c-nsp] Private IP in SP Core

2013-03-11 Thread Gordon Bryan
Andrey/Andrew,   It will be a very small network to begin with - single P router, single PE router and a number of switches for hosting. This will hopefuly quickly scale to a dual-site configuration with two P routers and two PE routers but even then it will still be small in the grand scheme

Re: [c-nsp] Private IP in SP Core

2013-03-11 Thread Reuben Farrelly
On 11/03/2013 8:52 PM, Gordon Bryan wrote: Andrey/Andrew, It will be a very small network to begin with - single P router, single PE router and a number of switches for hosting. This will hopefuly quickly scale to a dual-site configuration with two P routers and two PE routers but even then it

Re: [c-nsp] Private IP in SP Core

2013-03-11 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:18:31AM +, Gordon Bryan wrote: Can I ask what your thoughts are on core IP addressing? Do you have specified global ranges for this purpose with matching  iACLs or do you use another method altogether. We use a dedicated IPv4 /24 for all core links which

Re: [c-nsp] Private IP in SP Core

2013-03-11 Thread Reuben Farrelly
On 11/03/2013 9:43 PM, Gert Doering wrote: Hi, On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:18:31AM +, Gordon Bryan wrote: Can I ask what your thoughts are on core IP addressing? Do you have specified global ranges for this purpose with matching iACLs or do you use another method altogether. We use a

Re: [c-nsp] Private IP in SP Core

2013-03-11 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2013-03-11 11:43 +0100), Gert Doering wrote: What we're currently not so good at is protect the PE-CE link - the We've solved this by not announcing the PE address of PE-CE. Occasionally we need to announce the CE address, maybe for management purposes, maybe for something else. Then we

Re: [c-nsp] BGP Route Dampening

2013-03-11 Thread Ahmed Hilmy
Thanks Sahu for your reply, would you please clarify this point ( just make it negative local_pref penalty ) ? On Monday, March 11, 2013, Saku Ytti wrote: On (2013-03-11 11:23 +0300), Ahmed Hilmy wrote: If i am a transit ISP, is it recommanded to enable dampening feature ? If you want

Re: [c-nsp] BGP Route Dampening

2013-03-11 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2013-03-11 14:08 +0300), Ahmed Hilmy wrote: Thanks Sahu for your reply, would you please clarify this point ( just make it negative local_pref penalty ) ? It's not something you can do. It's just something I wish vendors would implement. Today if dampening triggers, route is removed

Re: [c-nsp] Private IP in SP Core

2013-03-11 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:54:25PM +0200, Saku Ytti wrote: On (2013-03-11 11:43 +0100), Gert Doering wrote: What we're currently not so good at is protect the PE-CE link - the We've solved this by not announcing the PE address of PE-CE. Occasionally we need to announce the CE

Re: [c-nsp] BGP Route Dampening

2013-03-11 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 11/03/2013 08:23, Ahmed Hilmy wrote: If i am a transit ISP, is it recommanded to enable dampening feature ? What problem are you trying to fix by enabling flap dampening? If you need to implement it, you should take a look at: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ymbk-rfd-usable Nick

[c-nsp] 1.1.1.0/24 and Cisco WLCs

2013-03-11 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi all, Was just doing a little bit of reading and had a look at http://rs2.swissix.ch/cgi-bin/bgplg?cmd=show+ip+bgp+source-asreq=15169 Specifically: flags destination gateway lpref med aspath origin *1.1.1.0/24 91.206.52.74 100 0 15169 i I never

Re: [c-nsp] 1.1.1.0/24 and Cisco WLCs

2013-03-11 Thread Balyuzi, Matthew
IIRC changing the virtual IP address on the Cisco WLCs is also strongly not recommended Is it not? We've been using a valid public address for ages. Not seen any problems as a result. -- Matt Balyuzi Networks Group Imperial College London ___

Re: [c-nsp] BGP Route Dampening

2013-03-11 Thread Andrew Miehs
RIPEs view on this is: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-378 And in short: Dated 2006... 4.0 Recommendation This Routing Working Group document proposes that with the current implementations of BGP flap damping, the application of flap damping in ISP networks is NOT recommended. The

Re: [c-nsp] BGP Route Dampening

2013-03-11 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 11/03/2013 12:12, Andrew Miehs wrote: This Routing Working Group document proposes that with the current implementations of BGP flap damping, the application of flap damping in ISP networks is NOT recommended RIPE's current view on RFD is: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-580 This

Re: [c-nsp] 1.1.1.0/24 and Cisco WLCs

2013-03-11 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 11/03/2013 12:05, Andrew Miehs wrote: flags destination gateway lpref med aspath origin *1.1.1.0/24 91.206.52.74 100 0 15169 i http://www.potaroo.net/studies/1slash8/1slash8.html the prefix has moved from AS237 to as15169, but Geoff Huston is

Re: [c-nsp] BGP Route Dampening

2013-03-11 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2013-03-11 12:18 +), Nick Hilliard wrote: RIPE's current view on RFD is: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-580 I don't believe this is generally supported by RIPE community, I don't understand how it became RIPE-580 so fast. -- ++ytti

Re: [c-nsp] BGP Route Dampening

2013-03-11 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 11/03/2013 12:25, Saku Ytti wrote: I don't believe this is generally supported by RIPE community, I don't understand how it became RIPE-580 so fast. I suspect on the basis of: oh, that looks interesting. The I-D is preferable as an informational reference - the review mechanisms are quite a

Re: [c-nsp] BGP Route Dampening

2013-03-11 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 02:25:21PM +0200, Saku Ytti wrote: On (2013-03-11 12:18 +), Nick Hilliard wrote: RIPE's current view on RFD is: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-580 I don't believe this is generally supported by RIPE community, I don't understand how it became

[c-nsp] cisco ME-C6524GT-8S Shaping

2013-03-11 Thread M K
Hi allI have cisco ME-C6524GT-8S connected to cisco ME-C3750-24TE via a trunk connection I configured sub interface on the 6524 and access port on the 3750 interface GigabitEthernet1/29.16 description New Connection encapsulation dot1Q 119 ip address x.x.x.x x.x.x.x interface FastEthernet1/0/7

Re: [c-nsp] Private IP in SP Core

2013-03-11 Thread Adam Vitkovsky
We use a dedicated IPv4 /24 for all core links which is heavily ACLed at all external borders. I also found it useful to use a separate range for loopback ip addresses - as it works nicely with filters for prefix prioritization and label allocation/advertisement. adam -Original Message-

Re: [c-nsp] Route-Reflector Sub-optimal Routing

2013-03-11 Thread Adam Vitkovsky
Is there any method to allow the Route-Reflector to send all routes to clients (not the best one)? If you have mpls in your core, you can use unique RD per VRF per PE -this will allow the RR to consider all the paths for a particular prefix as unique prefixes and advertise all of them to the PEs.

Re: [c-nsp] 1.1.1.0/24 and Cisco WLCs

2013-03-11 Thread Tony Varriale
On 3/11/2013 7:05 AM, Andrew Miehs wrote: Hi all, Was just doing a little bit of reading and had a look at http://rs2.swissix.ch/cgi-bin/bgplg?cmd=show+ip+bgp+source-asreq=15169 Specifically: flags destination gateway lpref med aspath origin *1.1.1.0/24

Re: [c-nsp] 1.1.1.0/24 and Cisco WLCs

2013-03-11 Thread Phil Mayers
On 11/03/13 13:42, Tony Varriale wrote: engineer worth their salt does not use this. Maybe. But a lot of people *have* used it, because I've seen it when doing webauth logins e.g. in airports, train networks, etc. And by definition, the people unwise enough to use it are also likely to be

Re: [c-nsp] 1.1.1.0/24 and Cisco WLCs

2013-03-11 Thread Sandy Breeze
On 11/03/13 14:37, Phil Mayers wrote: Cisco wrote docs suggesting that people did this: Enter the IP address of the controller's virtual interface. You should enter a fictitious, unassigned IP address, such as 1.1.1.1.

Re: [c-nsp] 1.1.1.0/24 and Cisco WLCs

2013-03-11 Thread Phil Mayers
On 11/03/13 14:49, Sandy Breeze wrote: On 11/03/13 14:37, Phil Mayers wrote: Cisco wrote docs suggesting that people did this: Enter the IP address of the controller's virtual interface. You should enter a fictitious, unassigned IP address, such as 1.1.1.1.

Re: [c-nsp] 1.1.1.0/24 and Cisco WLCs

2013-03-11 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, Maybe. But a lot of people *have* used it, because I've seen it when doing webauth logins e.g. in airports, train networks, etc. And by definition, the people unwise enough to use it are also likely to be the people unwise enough to return and fix things up in the installations they did.

Re: [c-nsp] Route-Reflector Sub-optimal Routing

2013-03-11 Thread judy teng
Yes. You can do it with BGP Add path attributes. It should be a available now.   -Judy --- On Mon, 3/11/13, Adam Vitkovsky adam.vitkov...@swan.sk wrote: From: Adam Vitkovsky adam.vitkov...@swan.sk Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Route-Reflector Sub-optimal Routing To: 'sherif mostafa'

[c-nsp] nx-os ssh connection startup delay ?

2013-03-11 Thread Jeffrey G. Fitzwater
cisco 7k 6.1.2 We are seeing delays when ssh-ing to system just before the banner page comes up. Once session is up we see no delay. It has become very consistent when we log-in recently and the delay is always just before the banner is displayed. Debugging of the SSH session at client

[c-nsp] BGP neighbor fall-over vs BFD

2013-03-11 Thread John Neiberger
I was just reading a bit about next-hop tracking and neighbor fall-over and now I'm a little confused about what fall-over actually does. The docs say that it enables fast peering session deactivation, but I can't tell what that really means. The wording in the docs makes it sound a lot like BFD,

Re: [c-nsp] nx-os ssh connection startup delay ?

2013-03-11 Thread Chuck Church
I seem to remember this a couple years ago working with Nexus 5K. Is AAA involved? Or your SSH clients order of protocol selection? Chuck -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jeffrey G. Fitzwater Sent:

Re: [c-nsp] BGP neighbor fall-over vs BFD

2013-03-11 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2013-03-11 10:52 -0600), John Neiberger wrote: Can someone shed some light on this? What is fall-over really doing and when might it be useful? Without BFD it means that eBGP is torn down when egress interface to neighbour goes down. It's on by default. -- ++ytti

Re: [c-nsp] BGP neighbor fall-over vs BFD

2013-03-11 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2013-03-11 19:07 +0200), Saku Ytti wrote: On (2013-03-11 10:52 -0600), John Neiberger wrote: Can someone shed some light on this? What is fall-over really doing and when might it be useful? Without BFD it means that eBGP is torn down when egress interface to neighbour goes down.

Re: [c-nsp] BGP neighbor fall-over vs BFD

2013-03-11 Thread Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)
Can someone shed some light on this? What is fall-over really doing and when might it be useful? sorry for the confusion ;-) neighbor fall-over (without the BFD keyword) is for multihop/non-directly-connected peers like the default behaviour fast-external-fallover for directly connected

Re: [c-nsp] BGP neighbor fall-over vs BFD

2013-03-11 Thread John Neiberger
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) oboeh...@cisco.com wrote: Can someone shed some light on this? What is fall-over really doing and when might it be useful? sorry for the confusion ;-) neighbor fall-over (without the BFD keyword) is for

Re: [c-nsp] 1.1.1.0/24 and Cisco WLCs

2013-03-11 Thread Tom Storey
I recall that APNIC, the unfortunate custodians of 1.0.0.0/8, had declared that the two prefixes 1.1.1.0/24 and 1.2.3.0/24 would never be allocated to an actual customer network, given the extensive use of them in private network situations like these (1.1.1.1 and 1.2.3.4 respectively being the

Re: [c-nsp] BGP neighbor fall-over vs BFD

2013-03-11 Thread Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)
In the case I'm thinking of using it, we do all over our internal BGP peering to loopbacks, which are in OSPF. If we enable fallover, it sounds like the peer will be torn down as soon as that next hop is removed from the routing table. Which is generally not something folks do in iBGP, there

Re: [c-nsp] BGP neighbor fall-over vs BFD

2013-03-11 Thread Bruce Pinsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Neiberger wrote: In the case I'm thinking of using it, we do all over our internal BGP peering to loopbacks, which are in OSPF. If we enable fallover, it sounds like the peer will be torn down as soon as that next hop is removed from the

Re: [c-nsp] BGP neighbor fall-over vs BFD

2013-03-11 Thread Bruce Pinsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Neiberger wrote: I was just reading a bit about next-hop tracking and neighbor fall-over and now I'm a little confused about what fall-over actually does. The docs say that it enables fast peering session deactivation, but I can't tell what

Re: [c-nsp] BGP neighbor fall-over vs BFD

2013-03-11 Thread Steven Raymond
On Mar 11, 2013, at 10:52 AM, John Neiberger wrote: I was just reading a bit about next-hop tracking and neighbor fall-over and now I'm a little confused about what fall-over actually does. The docs say that it enables fast peering session deactivation, but I can't tell what that really

Re: [c-nsp] nx-os ssh connection startup delay ?

2013-03-11 Thread Tóth András
Hi Jeffrey, As Chuck highlighted this could be due to a delay reaching the AAA server. I would also try disabling DNS lookups with no ip domain-lookup because when SSH is established the reverse record for the IP might be requested causing a delay. You could also do an ethanalyzer capture in

Re: [c-nsp] BGP neighbor fall-over vs BFD

2013-03-11 Thread John Neiberger
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Bruce Pinsky b...@whack.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Neiberger wrote: In the case I'm thinking of using it, we do all over our internal BGP peering to loopbacks, which are in OSPF. If we enable fallover, it sounds like

Re: [c-nsp] nx-os ssh connection startup delay ?

2013-03-11 Thread Rati , Berikaant Jokhadze
Check also if there is a login delay command configured :) luck On 03/11/2013 10:31 PM, Tóth András wrote: Hi Jeffrey, As Chuck highlighted this could be due to a delay reaching the AAA server. I would also try disabling DNS lookups with no ip domain-lookup because when SSH is established the

Re: [c-nsp] nx-os ssh connection startup delay ?

2013-03-11 Thread Jeffrey G. Fitzwater
The delay is also there with TELNET… I enabled it for testing. Jeff On Mar 11, 2013, at 14:31 , Tóth András wrote: Hi Jeffrey, As Chuck highlighted this could be due to a delay reaching the AAA server. I would also try disabling DNS lookups with no ip domain-lookup because when SSH is

Re: [c-nsp] Sup720 software forwarding

2013-03-11 Thread Tóth András
Hi Peter, MAC learning is fully hardware based on 6500 Sup720, therefore even if it's flapping it will not cause packets to be software switched, nor CPU usage to increase due to learning. Did you rectify the MAC flapping issue? If so, did you see an improvement with those flows, i.e. did they

Re: [c-nsp] nx-os ssh connection startup delay ?

2013-03-11 Thread Andrew Miehs
Sent from a mobile device On 12/03/2013, at 2:55, Jeffrey G. Fitzwater jf...@princeton.edu wrote: cisco 7k 6.1.2 We are seeing delays when ssh-ing to system just before the banner page comes up. Misconfigured tacacs/ aaa settings? ___

Re: [c-nsp] 1.1.1.0/24 and Cisco WLCs

2013-03-11 Thread Tony Varriale
On 3/11/2013 9:37 AM, Phil Mayers wrote: On 11/03/13 13:42, Tony Varriale wrote: engineer worth their salt does not use this. Maybe. But a lot of people *have* used it, because I've seen it when doing webauth logins e.g. in airports, train networks, etc. And by definition, the people

Re: [c-nsp] 1.1.1.0/24 and Cisco WLCs

2013-03-11 Thread Tony Varriale
On 3/11/2013 9:49 AM, Sandy Breeze wrote: On 11/03/13 14:37, Phil Mayers wrote: Cisco wrote docs suggesting that people did this: Enter the IP address of the controller's virtual interface. You should enter a fictitious, unassigned IP address, such as 1.1.1.1.

Re: [c-nsp] 4500-X VSS %EC-5-CANNOT_BUNDLE2

2013-03-11 Thread CiscoNSP List
Hi, Just an update to this - If I remove switch virtual link from the portchans, and then re-apply them to the tenGig ints, the portchan comes up? Portchan conf (That fails): (Hotmail will probably screw the formatting): interface Port-channel5 switchport switchport mode trunk