Re: [c-nsp] Secondary IP address causing MTU reduction?

2014-12-16 Thread David Coulson
What platform? What code? Can you post your interface config? Sent from my iPhone On Dec 16, 2014, at 9:22 PM, Eric A Louie via cisco-nsp cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net wrote: I encountered a strange problem that I'm hoping is a bug. Directly connected routersMTU 9200Works fine with single IP

Re: [c-nsp] Stacking 3750X vs diverse 4948E

2012-05-20 Thread David Coulson
On 5/19/12 11:24 PM, Tony Varriale wrote: The first and most important question is: Is this a real datacenter? If so, 3750xyz is not for you. Yes, it is. Why not? Also, the regular 4948s are not much better. We've been using 4948s for years. Never had any issues with them, beyond the

[c-nsp] Stacking 3750X vs diverse 4948E

2012-05-18 Thread David Coulson
In a datacenter environment, we typically deploy 4948 top-of-rack switches with L2 uplinks to our 6500 core - Systems get connections into two different switches and rely on OS NIC bonding (mostly Linux) to support switch failures. Switches running STP and in the last four years we've had no

Re: [c-nsp] high cpu on VIP in 7507

2010-07-06 Thread David Coulson
What does the output of 'sh int switching' look like? David On 7/6/2010 2:39 PM, Troy Beisigl wrote: Actually, we had a bad PA that I replaced, but did not clear the counters. The errors are not incrementing. I just now cleared the counters on this interface to make sure. We installed the

Re: [c-nsp] high cpu on VIP in 7507

2010-07-06 Thread David Coulson
misses 0 - - - Fast 0 0 0 0 Auton/SSE 0 0 0 0 NOTE: all counts are cumulative and reset only after a reload. -Troy On Jul 6, 2010, at 11:50 AM, David

Re: [c-nsp] Telnet to Pix via VPN

2010-02-07 Thread David Coulson
8.0(3) on both Pix515 and ASA5510 On 2/7/10 10:05 AM, David White, Jr. (dwhitejr) wrote: Hi David, It sounds like you are running into CSCsj53102. What version are you running on your 8.0 devices? Sincerely, David. David Coulson wrote: I have a number of ASAs and Pix devices

Re: [c-nsp] Telnet to Pix via VPN

2010-02-07 Thread David Coulson
I upgraded my 515E pair to 8.0(4) and it appears to have solved the problem. David On 2/7/10 10:05 AM, David White, Jr. (dwhitejr) wrote: Hi David, It sounds like you are running into CSCsj53102. What version are you running on your 8.0 devices? Sincerely, David.

[c-nsp] Telnet to Pix via VPN

2010-02-06 Thread David Coulson
I have a number of ASAs and Pix devices with interconnected VPNs. From each LAN I can telnet into the local device, however on both an ASA5510 and Pix515 running 8.0 I am unable to telnet into the device from across a VPN. An older Pix501 running 6.3 will allow me. I can ping across the VPNs

Re: [c-nsp] Question for PA OC3 guru?

2009-08-14 Thread David Coulson
It's probably cheaper to pick up an Adtran OC-3 Mux (Opti-3 or something) and use a traditional PA-MC-T3 and a PA-T3 card in a 7200, than it is to find a whole new router to do it :) Tony Varriale wrote: Can't do it. You'll have to look at another platform for channelized OC3.

[c-nsp] High IPC LC Message Header utilization

2009-03-31 Thread David Coulson
I've noticed weird CPU utilization on a 7513 recently upgraded to 12.4(23) (AdvIP w/ SSH). The two top processes, by CPU usage, are these: 103 5834624 9290243628 2.78% 2.58% 2.50% 0 IPC LC Message H 3 3708356 10387227357 0.98% 0.87% 0.82% 0 IPC CBus

Re: [c-nsp] DS1 provisioning using IP Unnumbered vs /30s

2009-02-06 Thread David Coulson
Justin Shore wrote: That's not a bad idea. Though wouldn't pointing a default at an interface force it to ARP constantly? Several hundred CEs ARPing non-stop could be a load issue on your PE. It's a serial interface. It doesn't ARP :-) ___

Re: [c-nsp] RSP4 as route server? - seeking suggestions and opinions

2008-12-20 Thread David Coulson
I'm surprised it worked mid 2007 - I've certainly had no success loading full tables into 256Mb in the last two years without aggressive filtering. So, my answer would be 'no'. I'd be tempted to use a Linux or BSD box if you just want a basic route server. Ang Kah Yik wrote: Hi all, Would

Re: [c-nsp] DS3 mux issues

2008-12-10 Thread David Coulson
Justin Shore wrote: Morning, Larry. Do you know if the channel-group # is significant to each DS1 or does the channel-group # have to be unique across the DS3? I'm thinking that it's unique to the DS1 so that you can create X number of channel-groups on a DS1 if needed but I'm not 100% on

Re: [c-nsp] Adding connected routes in a VRF

2008-12-08 Thread David Coulson
I always hate this sort of configuration... Why not just assign Gi1/2 a secondary address from your 192.168 subnet and make life simple? :) Ross Vandegrift wrote: ip route 192.168.100.0 255.255.255.0 GigabitEthernet1/1 ip route vrf foobar 192.168.200.0 255.255.255.0 GigabitEthernet1/2

Re: [c-nsp] PA-A3-T3

2008-11-05 Thread David Coulson
Yep, they only do ATM. A PA-T3 (or, PA-MC-T3+) is required to do frame or a plain old DS-3. That's why a PA-A3-T3 goes for next to nothing on the used market. Justin Shore wrote: Is the PA-A3-T3 ATM only? I have to use a DS3 for backhaul from a small remote POP and would like to avoid the

Re: [c-nsp] Conditional BGP

2008-09-23 Thread David Coulson
Paul, They would need to do two things. 1) AS prepend on the routes they advertise to you, so the AS path is longer than their path through Cogent. This will force most of their inbound traffic via Cogent. 2) Local pref setting for routes received from you to make them less desirable than

Re: [c-nsp] console port

2008-09-11 Thread David Coulson
Yep, but remember, if you move the serial port adaptor from one USB port to another, it will end up with a different COM port name - At least on Windows. adrian kok wrote: Hi I want to connect to the console port but my laptop is only having the USB without the com (serial port) Now i try

Re: [c-nsp] BGP Route Selection

2008-09-10 Thread David Coulson
You could fix it with a route-map and as-path. ip as-path access-list 98 permit ^3356$ route-map as-3356-inbound permit 5 match as-path 98 set local-preference 200 Then in the router bgp section, add this: neighbour 4.53.194.5 route-map as-3356-inbound in This will solve the problem for the

Re: [c-nsp] BGP sessions won't establish.

2008-06-27 Thread David Coulson
Roy wrote: Just to bring everybody up to date, the ISP keeps saying its something we are doing. To eliminates any quirks, we have a spare router directly connected to the metro ethernet box now. I've not really paid much attention to the technical side of this, but having turned up BGP

[c-nsp] Broadcast storm on Cat6500

2008-06-26 Thread David Coulson
We experienced a weird issue today on a Catalyst 6500 (Sup720, 12.2SXF). The switch has a variety of cef256 and cef720 cards, but there are no DFCs involved. Two devices within the same VLAN were talking to each other via TCP - nothing exciting. Devices are on two different cards within the

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 7513 problem

2008-06-18 Thread David Coulson
The whole router reloads, or just one of the RSPs? Have you tried it with just a single RSP? Maybe one is dying? FYI, I have experienced great stability with rsp-ik91sv-mz.122-25.S12.bin - Some routers have been running it for almost 18 months. I'm not saying it's perfect, but I would suspect

Re: [c-nsp] 7200s (VXRs and not) and MPLS capabilities

2008-06-14 Thread David Coulson
Robert Boyle wrote: That is basically true. There are no cards for the VXR which use the TDM bus. However, a VXR does allow you to use new NPE cards -400 -G1 -G2 and it gets Cisco more money. The other difference is that some older cards are no longer supported in the VXR chassis. Ah, so there

Re: [c-nsp] VLANs over IP unnumbered

2008-06-14 Thread David Coulson
Manaf Oqlah wrote: Routing entry for 10.10.0.0/20 Known via connected, distance 0, metric 0 (connected, via interface) Routing Descriptor Blocks: * directly connected, via Vlan111 - Vlan101 is the main vlan on 7600 router which has the ip address 10.10.10.1 (clients gateway)

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 7513 problem

2008-06-13 Thread David Coulson
Rodney Dunn wrote: 12.0(32)S latest or 12.4(19a) are good places forthe 75xx. Does 12.4 on the 75xx support SSO/NSF? David ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at

Re: [c-nsp] 7200s (VXRs and not) and MPLS capabilities

2008-06-13 Thread David Coulson
Eric Kagan wrote: It also eliminates the need to get the NON-VXR's out (which you will probably end up doing sooner than later and quickly regret the NON-VXR move). We did the same thing about 4 years ago and I swore at myself as I swapped out each one with a VXR over the past 2 years..

Re: [c-nsp] PA-MC-T3 and NPE300

2008-06-13 Thread David Coulson
Peder @ NetworkOblivion wrote: Is anybody using one or more PA-MC-T3 cards with a 7200vxr with NPE300? In the past. If so, what kind of performance are you seeing with basic config (mlppp enabled, but not nat, fw or bgp)? It seemed happy. I used CEF per-packet rather than MLPPP. I know

Re: [c-nsp] T1 configuration

2008-06-09 Thread David Coulson
Paul Stewart wrote: Is this because I need to configure timeslots still on the controller? Yep. controller t1 5/1 channel-group 0 timeslots 1-24 Then you'll get a serial 5/1:0 David ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net

[c-nsp] Gratuitous arp and Pix

2008-06-08 Thread David Coulson
I am looking at implementing some IP takeover services on a network behind Pixs (I think it's a pair of 535s running 7.2 - I don't control it, but I can request config changes). It would appear that Pix does not handle gratuitous arp responses in any useful way, which as a security appliance I

Re: [c-nsp] Set a L3 routed interface on a 6500 + SUP2 to 'promiscuous'mode?

2008-05-15 Thread David Coulson
What mac is it sending too? where does it get the arp entry from? -- David Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent from my BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Rafael Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 19:34:25 To:cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: [c-nsp] Set a L3 routed

Re: [c-nsp] Any to terminate a DSL loop on a 72xx or 75xx?

2008-05-12 Thread David Coulson
You have to use an fast ethernet port with a external dsl modem... Run pppoe client on cisco with modem in bridge mode passing ppp to router. -- David Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent from my BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Scott Granados [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 10

Re: [c-nsp] Any to terminate a DSL loop on a 72xx or 75xx?

2008-05-12 Thread David Coulson
Speedstreams do. 5200 or something -- David Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent from my BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Sridhar Ayengar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:28:59 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:Scott Granados [EMAIL PROTECTED], cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c

Re: [c-nsp] Exporting VRf routes to global routing table

2008-05-06 Thread David Coulson
Any particular you don't want to use a BGP session for this? Jérôme Fleury wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a way to *dynamically* export routes from a VRF to the global routing table. It should be the reverse of that feature: BGP Support for IP Prefix Import from Global Table into a VRF

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 7206VXR

2008-04-25 Thread David Coulson
I think the 7200 platform is the only one from Cisco where I have never had a OIR hiccup. Gert Doering wrote: 7200s perfectly well support PA OIR. ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 7206VXR

2008-04-25 Thread David Coulson
Gert Doering wrote: For 7500s, I can second that - but for the 7200, never ever any problem. On a 7500, if it was VIP based I would pretty much guarantee that the router would require a reload - Even manually forcing a bus stall rather than expecting the card insertion to do it right. The

Re: [c-nsp] Static Routing Question

2008-04-25 Thread David Coulson
Assuming everything is dynamic, Framed-Address will set the remote side IP (you will need to use Framed-Netmask to set it to a /32). Then you can use Framed-Route to add a route pointing to that /32. Paul Stewart wrote: Thanks So if I go the radius route, if there a way for me to inject

Re: [c-nsp] Route reflectors, BGP router redundancy et. Al.

2008-04-22 Thread David Coulson
Dracul wrote: a. Should my configuration involve route reflectors? Nope. b. Do I need interconnectivity between the 2 routers? ethernet or serial? Which ever is the most cost effective way to get the capacity necessary from one router to the other. IOS doesn't care. As long as your pipe

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

2008-04-22 Thread David Coulson
Jonathan Charles wrote: Configuration register is 0x2102 What is the output to the console before it drops you to the rommon prompt? ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at

Re: [c-nsp] News Item: Cisco Turns Routers Into Linux ApplicationServers

2008-04-19 Thread David Coulson
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: So, we can run Linux on the Cisco routers, My understanding is that you run Linux on an x86 device connected to your switch/router backplane. The NAM is a good example of an existing Cisco product that fits this model. Of course, Linux could probably run natively on

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 7206VXR

2008-04-18 Thread David Coulson
Justin M. Streiner wrote: Does the router crash when you insert any other port adapters? Does it crash when you insert the card, but boots happily if the card is already in when you power on? David ___ cisco-nsp mailing list

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 7206VXR

2008-04-18 Thread David Coulson
Are you using multiple 7206 chassis and multiple NPE-G1s for testing? Does it happen consistently across all of your devices? Only time I had a problem similar to this was with a flaky NPE or memory on the NPE. Jason Berenson wrote: Rodney, When I say pop in, I mean the router is booted and

Re: [c-nsp] 122-31.SBxx for 7206

2008-04-15 Thread David Coulson
On a separate note - A long time ago Rodney and others were talking about SB for 7500s. Did that ever happen? james edwards wrote: Is anyone running 122-31.SBxx on the 7206 NPE-400 and/or G2 ? If so, what SBxx and what is your experience ? 122-31.SB11 is the latest and contains fixes that

Re: [c-nsp] Virtual IP Question

2008-04-10 Thread David Coulson
Usually when IP takeover occurs, the new 'active' node will send out an ARP update message to force all devices on the broadcast domain to update their ARP table. I've run this type of failover (as opposed to a 'virtual MAC') with good success in a variety of configurations. Especially if you

Re: [c-nsp] Virtual IP Question

2008-04-10 Thread David Coulson
Dispatch mode should work - You just need to have the virtual IP configured on the nodes, and make sure they don't ARP for it. Unless I'm missing something? Paul Stewart wrote: Thanks... was going to go down that route previously but the server admin doesn't want to do NAT and the servers are

Re: [c-nsp] CBWFQ-LLQ on PPPoE Virtual Templates

2008-04-09 Thread David Coulson
You can do: show run int virtual-access XXX It probably won't list it in there though. You can inject it into the interface via RADIUS using the Cisco-AVpair attribute Cisco-AVPair = lcp:interface-config#1=service-policy output llq-policy FYI, those users are technically PPPoVPDN - PPPoE and

Re: [c-nsp] Identifying BGP route flapping

2008-04-09 Thread David Coulson
Maybe I missed something. Your upstream manages the routers, so can they not explain the route flaps? I would think the burden would be on them to demonstrate why your sessions reset? Was there an event which caused the flaps? Frank Bulk wrote: We're not that desperate to monitor BGP flaps to

Re: [c-nsp] 7609 6000W-DC PWR supply cabling Question

2008-03-31 Thread David Coulson
William Jackson wrote: Which way is this setup cabled? 1.all 4 pairs of cables going back to a single circuit breaker of ( 6000/48 = 125Amp ) Even if all 4 were on the same breaker, you'd distribute your current across all four pairs. I am not an electrical guy but I would have

Re: [c-nsp] Vlan interface vs. sub-interface

2008-03-31 Thread David Coulson
One of the big advantages of sub-interfaces over VLAN interfaces is that if 'VLAN 100' on one port is a totally different network to 'VLAN 100' on another. Using a sub-interface you can configure them as unique L3 interfaces. I've done this a lot with dot1q handoffs, and it works nicely. Is

Re: [c-nsp] Connecting PA-MC-T3 to PA-T3+

2008-03-19 Thread David Coulson
Sridhar Ayengar wrote: Couldn't you do it with some kind of T3 channel bank? Nope. ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/

[c-nsp] 7301 w/ bridge-group

2008-03-19 Thread David Coulson
Hi- I am looking at a deployment with a pair of 7301s with two DS-3s connecting them. The intention is to extend an Ethernet segment from one port across the two DS-3s to a port on the second 7301. Having used bridge-groups in the past for high bandwidth applications, I realize that they

Re: [c-nsp] 7201 cpu (revisited)

2008-03-17 Thread David Coulson
Rodney Dunn wrote: Push more load and the CPU will go up but your overall no drop rate and performance is much more with that newer processor. So a similar, if not the same, argument as to CPU usage on the NPE-G2? :) David ___ cisco-nsp mailing list

Re: [c-nsp] 7201 cpu (revisited)

2008-03-17 Thread David Coulson
Mark Kent wrote: CPU utilization for five seconds: 54%/53%; one minute: 52%; five minutes: 52% PID Runtime(ms) Invoked uSecs 5Sec 1Min 5Min TTY Process 462800142161 19 0.08% 0.03% 0.02% 0 Per-Second Jobs 741108 4356194 0 0.08%

Re: [c-nsp] T1 Bonding with PA-MC-T3

2008-03-15 Thread David Coulson
Actually, CEF per-packet usually gives more throughput than MLPPP as there is less overhead. You ran run the Ts in the group as HDLC, rather than PPP. david raistrick wrote: On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Nick Voth wrote: Thanks very much David. That definitely helps. Yes, our 2 T's are on the

Re: [c-nsp] T1 Bonding with PA-MC-T3

2008-03-15 Thread David Coulson
Nick Voth wrote: Thanks again guys. It seems that the consensus from all that I've read and the replies that I've gotten is that using CEF with per-packet is a great, low overhead way to do it, BUT with sensitive applications like VoIP, MLPPP will keep your packets in order better. I'll

Re: [c-nsp] T1 Bonding with PA-MC-T3

2008-03-14 Thread David Coulson
Gregory Boehnlein wrote: Is there any specific reason why you need MLPPP? How about just using per-packet load balancing? We do that on our PA-MC-T3 via the following: I believe MLPPP handles fragmentation better than CEF load sharing, so you end up with the fragments being received

Re: [c-nsp] T1 Bonding with PA-MC-T3

2008-03-14 Thread David Coulson
You should be able to run unnumbered on the Serials and Multilink and save yourself a boat load of IPs. Has anyone had problems using /31s with Ciscos recently? I always had problems with a x.x.x.0/32 loopback, so I'm loathe to try /31s on anything important :) Troy Beisigl wrote: Hi Nick,

Re: [c-nsp] OSPF - Prefer inter-area over intra-area

2008-03-14 Thread David Coulson
Why not make your life easy and just run BGP between them? Do a default originate towards A B (that is from hub-A, hub-B, A-B, B-A) and use local preference to handle the best path arrangement. Same for routes originated at A or B. Should be a pretty brain dead configuration, I would have

Re: [c-nsp] BGP config question

2008-02-18 Thread David Coulson
Wayne Lee wrote: We are currently getting our transit via BGP from 2 seperate providers, we have our own AS and now we have a customer who wants us to provide them with BGP transit. The customer also has their own AS. I have searched the net for example configs but so far all I have found is

Re: [c-nsp] 7513 RSP4+ SSO Failover Question - 12.2(25)S12

2008-02-15 Thread David Coulson
What is in the log for the previous five minutes? sh log | inc HA Gregory Boehnlein wrote: Hello, We're running a Cisco 7513 w/ Dual RSP 4+s in SSO mode. IOS is version Version 12.2(25)S12. We received a notification of an SSO failover from our Master RSP to our Slave. Prior to the

Re: [c-nsp] 7513 RSP4+ SSO Failover Question - 12.2(25)S12

2008-02-15 Thread David Coulson
Gregory Boehnlein wrote: Feb 15 00:49:57: %HA-3-SYNC_ERROR: CCB Playback error. Feb 15 00:49:57: %HA-5-SYNC_RETRY: Reloading standby and retrying sync operation (retry 1). I must have missed this last night.. This is from 12.0 S, but it may still apply. CSCsd12203 Symptoms: On a

Re: [c-nsp] CAB-OCTAL-ASYNC alternative

2008-02-15 Thread David Coulson
Get a RJ45-RJ45 patch panel - That is, a panel with RJ45 connectors wired straight through on both sides. Plug your octal cable into one side, then run patch cables to your devices and use a RJ45-DB9 adapter. Or you can run a patch cable directly into a device that has a RJ45 console port.

Re: [c-nsp] Looking for suggestions on how to link old colo with the new colo for routing purposes until new circuits are in place

2007-09-14 Thread David Coulson
Build an basic IP tunnel or IPSec connection between the two locations and treat it as a point to point for EIGRP, OSPF or BGP? Dan Troxel wrote: The issue is we cannot advertise to the net any sub /24 nets. Thus, we need to control those some how with an internal mesh - but the old and the

Re: [c-nsp] Quick question about redundant connections.

2007-08-10 Thread David Coulson
When the GSR stops routing, I'm guessing it doesn't drop IGP adjacencies? That's usually what I rely on to figure out if a router is useless, although maybe it won't help for you in this situation. I'd be more concerned as to why the GSR 'stops routing' than trying to rebuild the network

Re: [c-nsp] Quick question about redundant connections.

2007-08-10 Thread David Coulson
BFD supposed to help in these brain-dead cases ? (IGPs 'dead' timers should also kick-in, but usually BFD would be doing this much faster). David Coulson wrote: When the GSR stops routing, I'm guessing it doesn't drop IGP adjacencies? That's usually what I rely on to figure out

Re: [c-nsp] gigabit ethernet hardware help

2007-08-09 Thread David Coulson
Maybe I'm missing something, but since when did a 1000BaseSX GBIC support single mode? You'll probably need a LX GBIC for this. Sunet Sysadmin wrote: Hi all, we have a cisco 7200 series router and we want to terminate ADSL layer2 user on gigabit ethernet. We have GBIC card in the router

Re: [c-nsp] dCEF Problem

2007-08-03 Thread David Coulson
I'm not sure how much memory is required to load 12.4 onto a VIP - I only run 12.2S on the 7507s/7513s I manage. That said, you can probably pick up 128Mb of DRAM and 8Mb of SRAM for less than $50 to get the card up to snuff. Plus, if you're really wanting to run 12.4, you should probably get

Re: [c-nsp] Terminals within Terminals

2007-08-01 Thread David Coulson
, IL 60901 815-936-4647 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Coulson Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 3:01 PM To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: [c-nsp] Terminals within Terminals Maybe I'm just not with it today, but I keep

[c-nsp] Terminals within Terminals

2007-08-01 Thread David Coulson
Maybe I'm just not with it today, but I keep hitting this problem. I reverse telnet from one router into another. From the second router I run a command that runs for a while (e.g. pinging something with 1 packets). if I want to stop it early I would just do Ctrl-Shift-6 x. Works great

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 7507 RSP4+ with VIP-2 and 2PA-FE-TX

2007-07-20 Thread David Coulson
1) Do you have dCEF enabled? 2) Do a 'show int stat' to figure out if it's using distributed switching or route-cache/process 3) If you're using dCEF, all of the packet switching will be done on the VIP. Maybe that's part of the issue. I'm assuming you've got a 128Mb/8Mb VIP? I've worked with

Re: [c-nsp] Yanking Compact Flash while the router is up...

2007-05-25 Thread David Coulson
I do it all the time with routers - Not with a 2800, but with others. I can't imagine why it would have a problem, unless it's in the middle of doing something to it while you swap it out. Jonathan Charles wrote: So, I am curious, can you pull a CF card from a 2821 while the router is up and

Re: [c-nsp] T1 Cables

2007-05-18 Thread David Coulson
Nope - Any old Cat5 will do the trick. If you're seeing errors on multiple circuits, and they're delivered on copper, it might be something telco related on the backend. They should be able to do tests against the NIU and CSU and establish if the issue is on the telco facilities or on the

[c-nsp] 7507 ISSU error

2007-05-15 Thread David Coulson
I have a 7507 that started to do this today - Running 12.2(25)S12, and has been for about six months without any issues. I turned on a GigE interface on it today, which I actually physically pulled from the router after getting this error. Even a switch over to the second RSP doesn't seem to

Re: [c-nsp] PPS

2007-04-16 Thread David Coulson
Don't forget to divide by two as well. Packet in = packet out (mostly). Or just count all of the input packets. Hank Nussbacher wrote: At 07:11 PM 16-04-07 -0700, Shaun R. wrote: How can i figure out how many pps a 3750G is processing at a given time? Use a script to parse and add:

Re: [c-nsp] Adequate RAM in 7206VXR/NPE-G1?

2007-04-13 Thread David Coulson
Running full tables in 256Mb is close to impossible - I'd not recommend it :-) I tried to load a single full table (230ish-thousand) routes the other day into 256Mb and it didn't work too well. You might be able to save a little memory by disabling soft reloads, but that's not really a

Re: [c-nsp] PA-MC-8T1 into 7500

2007-04-12 Thread David Coulson
Just make sure you max out the memory on the VIP2... They support 128Mb of RAM. I have a few in a 7500 in the same configuration in the event a DS-3 card goes south and they are happy. Jeff Crowe wrote: Hi all, I am planning on installing a PA-MC-8T1 VIP2-50 into my 7500. Are there any

Re: [c-nsp] Switch/router recommendations?

2007-04-10 Thread David Coulson
We've had good success with the Netgear GSM7328S switches. 1U (but pretty deep) with 24 10/100/1000 ports (4 SFP ports) and lots of L3 features (OSPF, VRRP, Dot1q, etc). Probably sub-$2k if you buy it from the right place. We push 100Mbit+ through a pair of them, and they don't blink. david

Re: [c-nsp] Switch/router recommendations?

2007-04-10 Thread David Coulson
not had problems. The code ~9 months ago was crappy - I'd give you that. It has improved significantly since then. Ed Ravin wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 06:31:48PM -0400, David Coulson wrote: We've had good success with the Netgear GSM7328S switches. 1U (but pretty deep) with 24 10/100/1000

Re: [c-nsp] 7513 T3 Card Question

2007-03-28 Thread David Coulson
PA-MC-8T1 PA-MC-4T1 Joseph Jackson wrote: Is there a intregrated CSU/DSU T1 interface for the 7200 series? I hate having to have DSU's all over the place. ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net

Re: [c-nsp] 7513 T3 Card Question

2007-03-28 Thread David Coulson
Justin M. Streiner wrote: I've loaded a 7507 up with 2 PA-MC-2T3+ cards in the past and don't recall having any problems, even back in the RSP4 and VIP2-40 days... Granted, none of those customers were taking full BGP feeds or anything like that. Is there any compelling reason to use a VIP4

Re: [c-nsp] 7513 T3 Card Question

2007-03-28 Thread David Coulson
Phil Banh wrote: In particular, there is a limitation on the number of multilink PPP bundles and number of T1s participating in the multilink bundles, that you may run into: This raises a point I've not had to face yet - Since we do cisco - cisco installs, pretty much every T1 we have uses

Re: [c-nsp] 7513 T3 Card Question

2007-03-28 Thread David Coulson
Paul Stewart wrote: My question hopefully has a quick and generic answer... if you don't have enough CPU (RSP or VIP) what would the indicator be that you need to upgrade? Dropped packets, high CPU?? After spend a lot of time working on 7500s, if you get the configuration correct there

Re: [c-nsp] 7513 T3 Card Question

2007-03-28 Thread David Coulson
Pete Templin wrote: Step back and analyze: do you really need NPE-G1 (a device rated around 1 million pps, so we'll figure 100kpps real-world) to handle ~6-8kpps? I'm showing about 4kpps on 4xCT3. Consider NPE-225, and you'll see the price drop significantly. Plus, you won't need Gig