Re: [c-nsp] Need suggestion on cisco 3560 sw IOS

2014-06-26 Thread Jeff Kell
On 6/26/2014 6:09 PM, a.l.m.bu...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: on recent versions you can do the microcode update BEFORE the reload (check the update-sw flag list!) which saves loads of down time(!) First I've heard of that one (!). The microcode update is pervasive across the 3560s/3750s. First time

[c-nsp] 4500X trivia question...

2014-06-20 Thread Jeff Kell
Just breaking ground with some 4500X switches... and was curious... With other Catalysts the switches are often oversubscribed... at least the uplinks... but there were platform specific commands to determine which ports were mapped to which ASICs and you could try to optimize your loads across

Re: [c-nsp] 3750: SNMP-3-INPUT_QFULL_ERR, ssh session dies, show tech support fails, switch stack crashes on reload

2014-05-05 Thread Jeff Kell
On 5/5/2014 11:10 AM, Darren O'Connor wrote: Never seen it myself, but googling around brings up a few things. Did this recently start? Any other switch on the same code having the same issues or not? Generally if five different devices all start having the same issue an external issue is

[c-nsp] EIGRP potentially silly question...

2014-03-05 Thread Jeff Kell
After a deployment of EIGRP with the intent of providing link utilization based load-sharing as opposed to round robin, I get the rude awakening that the default k-values for EIGRP do NOT include link utilization. Any shortcuts / workarounds / etc to resetting k-values site-wide without breaking

Re: [c-nsp] Twinax trivia check (was Re: Is there such a thing as a 10GBase-T SFP+ transciever)

2014-02-02 Thread Jeff Kell
On 2/2/2014 5:49 PM, Murphy-Olson, Daniel E. wrote: Most of the switch vendors have an official compatibility list, but I've found that generally the most common compatibility issue is active vs passive twinax. Brocade edge switches and nics are normally active only, which seems to come

Re: [c-nsp] TAC hits a new record level of aggravation...

2014-02-01 Thread Jeff Kell
: domingo, 3 de Novembro de 2013 14:35 To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] TAC hits a new record level of aggravation... On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Jeff Kell wrote: Customer support died a decade ago. For the front-end stuff, sure. To be fair, and to give credit where credit is due

[c-nsp] 3750G memory leak?

2014-01-24 Thread Jeff Kell
Just curious... has anyone had issues with memory leaks on 3750Gs? We have had nightmares from a 4-switch stack of 3750G-48TS's (IP Services). Runs for months, then you try to write mem and get memory allocation errors and it fails. It progresses a bit further and you can no longer get serial

Re: [c-nsp] Re-licensing secondhand Cisco equipment

2014-01-07 Thread Jeff Kell
For some hardware, especially the fixed-chassis Catalysts, there is a limited lifetime warranty that is supposed to include software updates, particularly those related to security defects and known release defects. However, the current TAC downloads will show releases, but requests a login to

[c-nsp] Quick question on HSRP...

2013-12-30 Thread Jeff Kell
Quick question for someone that's been there, done that, as I'm a bit rushed to try to lab test this... We're adding some new routers (4500Xs) for an upgraded server farm arrangement with a number of server-side vlans / VRFs. The plan was to trunk it with the existing L3 router, and fire up HSRP

Re: [c-nsp] 4500X weird issue...

2013-12-12 Thread Jeff Kell
On 12/10/2013 8:45 PM, Jeff Kell wrote: Follow-up... the secondary booted up OK. We're looking at a possible RMA on the failing one (TAC case open) rather than cracking the case on a virgin switch to mess with flash :). Jeff On 12/6/2013 11:25 PM, Jeff Kell wrote: We received our first pair

Re: [c-nsp] 4500X weird issue...

2013-12-10 Thread Jeff Kell
Follow-up... the secondary booted up OK. We're looking at a possible RMA on the failing one (TAC case open) rather than cracking the case on a virgin switch to mess with flash :). Jeff On 12/6/2013 11:25 PM, Jeff Kell wrote: We received our first pair of 4500X switches, and proceeded to try

[c-nsp] 4500X weird issue...

2013-12-06 Thread Jeff Kell
We received our first pair of 4500X switches, and proceeded to try to prepare them for deployment. They came up OK on console access, we got a very basic configuration setup, linked them together, and did an initial VSS pairing. With that successful, we put in a management IP address for the

Re: [c-nsp] EIGRP reality check

2013-11-26 Thread Jeff Kell
EIGRP metrics. These are all Catalysts (6500 at A, various 3750 models at B-C-D) so nothing new and bleeding edge here. Jeff On 11/26/2013 10:10 PM, Mark Tinka wrote: On Monday, November 25, 2013 04:55:08 AM Jeff Kell wrote: We have been using EIGRP in the most recent generation of our

[c-nsp] EIGRP reality check

2013-11-24 Thread Jeff Kell
We have been using EIGRP in the most recent generation of our campus network, a choice that was largely made on the fact that it could load-share across equal-cost paths, and take the path of least resistance to the target. Recently we upgraded some core links to 10Gbps, with a couple remaining

Re: [c-nsp] Third party transceivers that fail only with new, NX-OS 6.2.2a on sup-2E

2013-11-19 Thread Jeff Kell
On 11/19/2013 5:51 PM, Tim Durack wrote: Second that. The more people buy 3rd party (coded if you want) the better. Vendors only listen to sales. +1 to that. We recently ran across some 3rd-party CODED DOM-supporting optics that have worked (thus far) in both Ciscos and Brocades. When you can

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco bug locator?

2013-11-19 Thread Jeff Kell
On 11/19/2013 9:40 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: So complain to your account team and give feedback on their website. Only by customers complaining will we see improvement. Don't hold your breath. I've been bitching since they started the whole Web 2.0 / HTML5 / Java nonsense migration, and

Re: [c-nsp] TAC hits a new record level of aggravation...

2013-11-03 Thread Jeff Kell
On 11/3/2013 1:41 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: On Nov 3, 2013, at 12:08 PM, Jeff Kell jeff-k...@utc.edu wrote: If enough of us complain... maybe. Plenty of people inside and outside of Cisco have complained vociferously, to no avail. It's unlikely to change. Maybe we should all go back

Re: [c-nsp] TAC hits a new record level of aggravation...

2013-11-03 Thread Jeff Kell
On 11/3/2013 7:46 AM, Chuck Church wrote: It's not just the TAC tool that has been suck-ified. The replacement for the dynamic configuration tool sucks. Tried it a few days ago, first thing it asks for is a whole bunch of customer info. I just wanted to verify if there is a non-EOS OC-3 POS

[c-nsp] TAC hits a new record level of aggravation...

2013-11-02 Thread Jeff Kell
I had the opportunity to open a TAC case last week... and was greeted by the new website... I use Firefox with NoScript, Ghostery, AdBlock, and some other plugins that require their own unique whitelisting to get cisco.com to work at all, and even more if you need to login to anything. I have

[c-nsp] ASA 8.4 error 305006 regular translation creation failed

2013-11-02 Thread Jeff Kell
Not having fun with TAC, let me ask the real experts :) ASA-5585X running 8.4(7), recent upgrade in response to last month's security advisories against the 8.4 code we were running... Now getting a number of the %ASA-3-305006 regular translation creation failed errors logged, typically for

Re: [c-nsp] TAC hits a new record level of aggravation...

2013-11-02 Thread Jeff Kell
: Have you try using MS Explorer? Sent from my iPhone On 2013/11/03, at 7:53, Jeff Kell jeff-k...@utc.edu wrote: I had the opportunity to open a TAC case last week... and was greeted by the new website... I use Firefox with NoScript, Ghostery, AdBlock, and some other plugins

Re: [c-nsp] TAC hits a new record level of aggravation...

2013-11-02 Thread Jeff Kell
On 11/2/2013 11:20 PM, Alex Presse wrote: It's the new java update - unsigned code gets user verification windows. Cisco (and everybody else) will need to update all their java delivered user interfaces to avoid this annoyance. And we need Java to submit a case, exactly why? Plain old

Re: [c-nsp] TAC hits a new record level of aggravation...

2013-11-02 Thread Jeff Kell
On 11/3/2013 12:52 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: On Nov 3, 2013, at 7:29 AM, Justin M. Streiner strei...@cluebyfour.org wrote: It would be great if Cisco focus-group tested these 'enhancements' before rolling them out, and knock it off with the Java nonsense. They've been going in this

Re: [c-nsp] SC to LC converter

2013-10-14 Thread Jeff Kell
Cheapest alternative is get an SC-to-SC coupler and an SC-to-LC jumper and cross your fingers on the added loss. Otherwise you're looking at re-termination and tolerating a Unicam quick fix or a pigtail requiring a splice. Jeff On 10/14/2013 3:37 PM, Kenny Kant wrote: I have an older

Re: [c-nsp] ME3400E - Shaping vlans?

2013-09-25 Thread Jeff Kell
On 9/25/2013 9:32 PM, CiscoNSP List wrote: Hi, Is it possible to shape vlans on the ME3400E? (i.e. Multiple vlans on a trunk port, shaping them at different speeds)? And to hop someone else's thread... isn't there some simple way of prioritizing a vlan over the others via CoS? It's

[c-nsp] Old mystery... receive vs transmit discards...

2013-09-10 Thread Jeff Kell
Over the years I've noticed the network monitors pointing out various of our lower-end Catalyst switches (29xx, 35xx, 37xx) reporting transmit discards or receive discards. Since we have some gig uplinks on some 10/100 switches, obviously some of this is to be expected. As time has gone by, we

[c-nsp] Small Catalysts, small buffers, drop preference ?

2013-09-03 Thread Jeff Kell
We have a fairly extensive access layer of smaller and mostly older Catalysts (2950s, 2960s) with building distribution 3550s/3560s as uplinks. We did some overhauls over the summer to get not only gig uplinks to the buildings, but gig uplinks to each access layer switch within the building.

[c-nsp] Odd ntp problem...

2013-08-30 Thread Jeff Kell
Ran across a strange one with NTP [again, had seen it happen once before, but thought it was a fluke...] Have a 6500 core running 12.2(33)SXI that is setup to sync to an external NTP source, and in turn provide NTP for our networked devices. Basic NTP configuration, with ntp logging, ntp

Re: [c-nsp] IOS 12 and 15

2013-08-28 Thread Jeff Kell
On 8/28/2013 10:46 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: Think of 15.x as 12.(5+x). There isn't that mcuh different when it comes to commands, it's mostly under the hood and of course new functionality. Is that true on the 6500? I've already made the 15.x jump on our lower-end Catalysts but the 6500

Re: [c-nsp] Same static-route to different destination /

2013-07-17 Thread Jeff Kell
On 7/17/2013 7:30 PM, Muhammad Asim Hussain wrote: Please use port-channel load-balance src-dest-IP command at global config. Hope after this implementation both links will be equally load balance. Depending on platform, you may be able to randomize to a greater degree, e.g., 6500 Sup720

Re: [c-nsp] New Catalyst 6k chassis

2013-06-26 Thread Jeff Kell
On 6/26/2013 11:10 PM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: It just seems like the new 6k is positioned to poach prospective customers from the (arguably) higher-margin Nexus 7k product line. Now that you mention the N-word I have to ask (as we're looking into a deployment)... how much of it is ready for

Re: [c-nsp] Possible spanning tree issue

2013-06-04 Thread Jeff Kell
On 6/4/2013 6:56 PM, Michael Sprouffske wrote: I attached a new switch to the network and it took down our contact center that doesn't touch this switch nor does the phone system. Is this spanning tree doing this? I don't see anything in the logs that show a change in spanning tree. I

[c-nsp] Left-field trivia questions...

2013-05-01 Thread Jeff Kell
(1) Is it just me, or has cisco-nsp been spitting out ancient email messages for the last couple of days? I've gotten emails dating back to 2010, and it's not just the current timestamps, the embedded On month day, year, so-and-so wrote... is also old. (2) As my equipment this week has started

Re: [c-nsp] 7600 Sup720-3BXL Showing Max CEF table of 256K

2013-04-29 Thread Jeff Kell
On 4/29/2013 2:57 PM, Dan Benson wrote: Looking today, I was surprised to see that two of my Sup720-3BXLs are showing that I only have a MAX cef ability of 239K when all the docs I read show they should be defaulting to 512K. Try show platform hardware pfc mode and see if you're really

Re: [c-nsp] data center/mpls/vpls

2013-04-15 Thread Jeff Kell
On 4/15/2013 2:07 AM, Andrew Miehs wrote: I would like a pair of top-of-rack devices that can mirror one another if possible too, like cisco's 6509-vss thing.or at least like nexus vpc (multichassis link aggregation/bundling) The Nexus 5Ks are pretty cheap and good if you only need L2. I'm

Re: [c-nsp] 3560g switch - tagged vlans and untagged frames

2013-04-08 Thread Jeff Kell
On 4/9/2013 12:16 AM, Mike wrote: It it helps. I do also have dot1q native vlan tagging enabled. I just can't see inside of the switch and understand where my frames are going. If I put it into switchport mode access, and switchport access vlan 6, it all works fine and I see mac addresses in

[c-nsp] 3750 stack inaccessible - memory leak

2013-04-04 Thread Jeff Kell
Each time my patience wears thin with TAC, I come here; it's typically more productive :) February 2011: 3750G stack stops answering to telnet/ssh with timeouts, serial console reports %% Low on memory; try again later. Gets blamed on CSCsu27706, fixed in 12.2(44); but we're now on 15.0(2).

[c-nsp] HSRP v2 on 3750G

2013-03-26 Thread Jeff Kell
Anyone doing HSRP v2 on a 3750G (IP Services) ? Bonus points if on a VRF SVI ? Jeff ___ 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/

Re: [c-nsp] VS-S2T-10G card with WS-X6748-SFP Card = DFC Problems

2013-03-25 Thread Jeff Kell
You can't do a CFC on a WS-X6716-10GE, can you? Jeff On 3/25/2013 1:46 PM, Phil Mayers wrote: On 25/03/13 17:35, Olivier CALVANO wrote: Hi i have a Cisco 6504E with a VS-S2T-10G and a small problems with two card: *Mar 25 17:20:06.375: %C6KENV-2-DFCMISMATCH: Module 2 DFC incompatible

Re: [c-nsp] VSS to vPC - vPC to Etherchannel

2013-03-16 Thread Jeff Kell
On 3/16/2013 8:34 PM, Andrew Miehs wrote: The cisco documentation recommends static as the recovery times are supposedly faster due to no negotiation. Not really sure if the downsides make up for that though. Yeah, you can screw up your network much faster that way :) We had been doing PAgP

Re: [c-nsp] STP active/listed on wrong port

2013-03-13 Thread Jeff Kell
On 3/13/2013 11:09 PM, Pete Templin wrote: I suspect a 'sh int status' might have shown this port in VLAN 1, and/or 'sh int tru' might not have shown this port trunking. Or if you're playing trunks, it's probably setup for native vlan 1. Jeff ___

Re: [c-nsp] VSS on 4500-x

2013-02-28 Thread Jeff Kell
On 2/28/2013 11:14 PM, CiscoNSP List wrote: Thanks Rick - How long have you been running your setup for? Exactly what I did for my SAN network -- replaced a stack of two 3750s with two 4500Xs using vss. Works flawlessly. How was the configuration migration? It was my understanding the

Re: [c-nsp] ASA 8.4 NAT weirdness...

2013-02-18 Thread Jeff Kell
On 2/18/2013 6:25 PM, Garrett Skjelstad wrote: Meh. Everyone always complains when software changes. THAT is the universal law. Change is constant. Adapt and find the new cheese. =) Well, yes, except this release I suspect that someone cut the cheese :) Jeff

[c-nsp] ASA 8.4 NAT weirdness...

2013-02-17 Thread Jeff Kell
OK, now have ASA up on 8.4 software, and boy is it ever weird :) We do NAT extensively (all 1918 addressing inside). For public-facing servers, primarily web servers, we made a habit of translating them into a public /24 network (say x.y.z.*). The firewall atrributes for this was to simply

Re: [c-nsp] sh interfaces transceiver detail ouput

2013-01-26 Thread Jeff Kell
I have similar values on 6500 / VS720 / 6716-10G mostly just transmit/receive power. Have never seen anything on a lesser/smaller Catalyst with one exception... we were trying some compatible optics on a link out of a 3750-12 stack. These particular compatibles show everything! All the

Re: [c-nsp] Cat6500 odd arp behavior

2013-01-24 Thread Jeff Kell
On 1/24/2013 3:24 PM, vinny_abe...@dell.com wrote: Thanks Andrew... I should have elaborated further. The hosts aren't directly connected to the 6500. The 6500 aggregates several TOR switches just doing pure layer 2, no trunking or tagging or anything. The 6500 provides an SVI for each VLAN

[c-nsp] Port-channel configuration stickiness...

2013-01-18 Thread Jeff Kell
After a few IOS updates in our maintenance window tonight, I had some port-channel trunks fail to come up *again* and this is becoming more than an occasional nuisance... perhaps others have seen this... We run a number of port-channel uplinks between Catalyst switches (3560s, 3750s, 4500s,

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 3850 switches

2013-01-17 Thread Jeff Kell
But 4500X VSS isn't official yet either :) Jeff On 1/17/2013 11:43 PM, Blake Pfankuch wrote: That's what it looks like to running IOS XE. I'm curious if they are maintaining the 3750 style stacking or going more with the 4500X style stacking... -Original Message- From: Andrew

Re: [c-nsp] Anyconnect ASA 5550

2012-12-26 Thread Jeff Kell
On 12/26/2012 3:05 PM, Ryan West wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 13:57:53, Blake Pfankuch wrote: Subject: [c-nsp] Anyconnect ASA 5550 Int gi 0/1 Ip address 10.10.10.11 255.255.255.0 standby 10.10.10.12 Nameif outside Secu 0 Without changing the actual interface IP, I cannot have my

[c-nsp] Etherchannel port hashing consistency?

2012-12-11 Thread Jeff Kell
Quick question... I have a stacked pair of 3750X switches currently feeding 2 trunks through some packet inspection devices and into ASA5540s. We're upgrading to 5585s, and looking at doing etherchannel trunks out of the 3750Xs and 5585s (now that ASAs support etherchannel). If the ASAs are

Re: [c-nsp] MST Experiences: was Re: Dell switches (specifically PowerConnect 7048P) and Ciscos

2012-11-28 Thread Jeff Kell
On 11/28/2012 5:38 PM, Bernie wrote: It's clearly highly relevant in some environments, but Dell is gaining market share with the STP functioning as-is. While I can bring discussions like this to management attention, the system is set up to listen to the people making sales decisions at

Re: [c-nsp] 3750x Alternatives

2012-11-19 Thread Jeff Kell
If you seriously have 10G on the roadmap, 4500X looks sweet, you can get it in a 16-port version, SFP / SFP+ you upgrade as you are ready. A pair of them in a VSS deployment is going to be pretty steep however, especially if you need smart layer-3 (Enterprise). Otherwise perhaps a 4507E+R with a

Re: [c-nsp] 3750x Alternatives

2012-11-19 Thread Jeff Kell
On 11/19/2012 8:38 PM, Andrew Miehs wrote: The OP seemed to be having an issue with bursty traffic, which is why I would push him away from the 37xx product line. Yes. I continue to be disappointed at 2960/3560/3570 buffer performance (so much to the extent that we're currently deploying

Re: [c-nsp] Wireless Controllers, SVIs and WCCP

2012-11-18 Thread Jeff Kell
On 11/18/2012 6:20 PM, Andrew Miehs wrote: Although not a bad idea, it will be a little difficult to convince management that we now want to replace the controllers. The reason for MPLS is that we could just hang all the wireless gear off a wireless only PE, rather than requiring an extra hop

Re: [c-nsp] leaking only a couple routes between 2 vrf's

2012-11-01 Thread Jeff Kell
On 11/1/2012 5:28 PM, Aaron wrote: What is a clean/easy way to leak a couple routes between two vrf's ? if you have links to docs or sites that explain this or you know how , lemme know please. Either an import route-map (filter imports), or route-map your redistribution into BGP (filter

Re: [c-nsp] Overflows During Microbursts on Cisco Switch

2012-10-30 Thread Jeff Kell
On 10/30/2012 10:37 AM, Gert Doering wrote: Hi, On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 09:00:25AM -0500, Ge Moua wrote: +1 for: * get a reasonable switch maybe something like a 2960-X (or higher) will provide for deeper buffers during micro-burst use case. As far as I have been told, the new E and X

Re: [c-nsp] SSH from inside a VRF in 12.2SRE

2012-10-21 Thread Jeff Kell
VRF-aware management functions are a pain... you want it everywhere, except when you get it, e.g., recent ip helper-address suddenly becoming vrf-aware caused us some major issues. Accepting VRFs at the COPP level (e.g., vrf-also on vty access lists) can screw you as well. I can see the

[c-nsp] ASA 8.x software and ICMP errors...

2012-10-17 Thread Jeff Kell
Have been noticing this for some time but did not consider it worth pursuing at the time, then recently had to try some traceroutes and nmaps from off-campus for testing purposes and now it's relevant... Our internal infrastructure is on private addresses. We have dynamic NAT enabled for the

Re: [c-nsp] Catalyst 3xxx IPv6 VRF Lite ?

2012-10-13 Thread Jeff Kell
On 10/13/2012 12:19 PM, Gregoire Huet wrote: Hello I've been told by Cisco that the feature would be available by 1st half of 2013. If it's added to existing hardware, I'd expect a new SDM profile and even lower numbers for everything else once the IPv6/VRF allocation is taken out :( A

[c-nsp] 4500 load check...

2012-09-25 Thread Jeff Kell
I'm looking for the 4500 (old SupIVs) equivalent of a switch load... For Cats 3550/3560/3750 I have a load macro looking at show controller utilization for active interfaces. For the 6500, a show mls stat gives you a fair idea. There doesn't seem to be a 4500 equivalent. There is the show

Re: [c-nsp] VMware teaming Nic's and multiple switches

2012-09-19 Thread Jeff Kell
We did cross-chassis port channels on 3750s for years. However, the new vCenter/ESX 5+ has this automatic link balancing thing. You setup the trunks all the same, no need for port-channels, and the vCenter host load-balances the vlans/hosts across the available links. Kinda ugly from the switch

Re: [c-nsp] Catalyst 6509 EOS/EOL

2012-09-18 Thread Jeff Kell
On 9/18/2012 10:16 AM, Antonio Soares wrote: It's possible to extend the support for the non-E 6500s with something they call Post Last Day of Support (Post-LDoS). Basically you have a price for the service that is the double of a 6500-E. But you can have the non-E supported until 31-Dec-2015.

Re: [c-nsp] Output drops mysteriously appear/disappear on 3750X

2012-08-22 Thread Jeff Kell
Usually shows up (worse) on port channels. Drops are read as a single binary counter, and are calculated as a delta from the previously read values. Occasionally the port channel values are offset 2x the previous values (individual ports versus the channel). We've been dealing with the network

Re: [c-nsp] Problem with the same route in the general routing table and in vrf

2012-08-09 Thread Jeff Kell
On 8/9/2012 4:32 AM, Luca Tortiglione wrote: ! route-map PC_TO_VTC permit 1 match ip address 100 set vrf VTC I suspect you need to complete your route map... you set vrf VTC for VRF targeted traffic, you need another level with set global on the return side. At least that's what I've done

Re: [c-nsp] Point to Point T1's and vlan nightmares

2012-07-27 Thread Jeff Kell
On 7/27/2012 5:38 PM, Oliver Garraux wrote: Preventing duplicate VLAN numbers sounds like it could be better solved through process changes rather than technical changes. Maybe a wiki or a spreadsheet, or a single person that's in charge of assigning new VLAN's. (Not trying to be

Re: [c-nsp] 4500-E EOL?

2012-05-20 Thread Jeff Kell
On 5/20/2012 10:54 PM, Keegan Holley wrote: Are you sure? The only release bulletin I could find was from 2010 and that's the year the EOS'd the non-E chassis. They dropped the non-Es for the -Es. Now they're dropping the -Es for the +Es. 6500 non-Es were dropped even earlier (support runs

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

2012-05-20 Thread Jeff Kell
Just to provide another data point / opinion... We have 3560, 3560X, 3750, 3750E, 3750X all deployed, typically as CE routers. We are moving to 3750s to stack for redundancy. Most are well-behaved with a few exceptions... Any of the X-series with a microcode update can take 30 minutes or more

Re: [c-nsp] An observation: 512k default max-prefix in IOS-XR

2012-04-28 Thread Jeff Kell
On 4/28/2012 4:10 PM, Robert Blayzor wrote: Well the reality of the 720-3BXL in an IPv4/v6 world is that you get about 500k IPv4 and half that in IPv6 (IIRC). The l3xl scale license will get you 1M IPv4 routes and 128K IPv6. Of course you'll lose a lot of your L2 scale. So if your considering

Re: [c-nsp] VRF-Lite and IPv6...

2012-04-26 Thread Jeff Kell
AFAIK there is just LAN Base, IP Base, and IP Services now, IPv6 was rolled into IP Services. It was IP Services, 15.0(1). On 4/26/2012 10:03 AM, Dale W. Carder wrote: Was this on advanced ip services or a different license set? Dale Thus spake Jeff Kell (jeff-k...@utc.edu) on Wed, Apr 25

Re: [c-nsp] 15.2(2)S issues on 7600/SUP720

2012-04-25 Thread Jeff Kell
I've seen this on stacked 3750s when doing anything related to configurations, it would hang up hard enough to timeout EIGRP hellos from neighbors (and vice versa) causing general havoc everywhere. The workaround was to include parser config cache interface. During the hangs if you could get

[c-nsp] VRF-Lite and IPv6...

2012-04-25 Thread Jeff Kell
After playing with a lab switch (3560X) today looking at some IPv6 features, we discovered you can't really do IPv6 VRFs on it. The vrf definition configuration option doesn't like address-family at all, so no IPv4/IPv6 bits there. Is this an under consideration software function, or a

Re: [c-nsp] IPSEC Remote access to MPLS VPN

2012-02-15 Thread Jeff Kell
On 2/15/2012 3:09 AM, ar wrote: I would like to setup a remote access IPSEC/SSL VPN then maps to MPLS VPN/VRFs. I'm thinking of using 7206VXR as the concentrator/PE for this. Remote clients will use cisco/microsoft vpn clients. Site-to-site vpn will be supported too. I'm sure there are

[c-nsp] Quick 6500 question...

2012-02-07 Thread Jeff Kell
Quick reality check... Is the difference in the E-series chassis only in available power? Has nothing to do with backplane bandwidth? Jeff ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp

Re: [c-nsp] Quick 6500 question...

2012-02-07 Thread Jeff Kell
On 2/7/2012 3:00 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: Anyway, I don't really have an issue with this - the E chassis has been sold more or less exclusively since 2005 or so, so any remaining in deployment will be well past their accounting write off time. Apparently Cisco support of the non-E chassis

Re: [c-nsp] inter-VRF routing

2012-02-03 Thread Jeff Kell
import/export require BGP to actually work... or at least I've never had any success w/o at least defining the BGP process. Jeff On 2/3/2012 9:22 AM, harbor235 wrote: Take a look into importing routes from one vrf into another using an import map. check out a previous thread:

Re: [c-nsp] Ambiguous ACL log in 12.2(58)SE2?

2012-02-02 Thread Jeff Kell
Given the fact that if you have a switch running with such ACL statements in place (and working), upgrading to 12.2(58) will break them would seem to be something PSIRT would be interested in (but I received no response after reporting it). The bug may be tied to my case :) Jeff On 2/2/2012

[c-nsp] Quick (?) ASA VPN w/AD question...

2012-01-30 Thread Jeff Kell
Trying to break some new ground on ASA 8.4(2) VPN configuration (quite a number of changes) Need to map AD group membership onto a group policy selection. (1) Previous examples are using the Cisco name IETF-Radius-Class to map into the policy name, while 8.4(2) seems to want Group Policy

Re: [c-nsp] sup2 lead times/costs

2012-01-20 Thread Jeff Kell
On 1/20/2012 10:19 AM, Alan Buxey wrote: ;-) there'll also be a deluge of sup720 blades for those people still on sup2 or sup32 from all the sup2t upgraders Yeah, hopefully VS720s too... Jeff ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net

[c-nsp] Ambiguous ACL log in 12.2(58)SE2?

2012-01-18 Thread Jeff Kell
Running into this on a 3560X IP Services (context is accepted by everything else...) Grote-Uplink(config-ext-nacl)#85 permit tcp any any eq 9100 log % Ambiguous command: 85 permit tcp any any eq 9100 log Grote-Uplink(config-ext-nacl)#85 permit tcp any any eq 9100 log ! log % Ambiguous

Re: [c-nsp] Ambiguous ACL log in 12.2(58)SE2?

2012-01-18 Thread Jeff Kell
On 1/18/2012 10:14 AM, Jeff Kell wrote: Running into this on a 3560X IP Services (context is accepted by everything else...) Grote-Uplink(config-ext-nacl)#85 permit tcp any any eq 9100 log % Ambiguous command: 85 permit tcp any any eq 9100 log Grote-Uplink(config-ext-nacl)#85 permit tcp any

Re: [c-nsp] Ambiguous ACL log in 12.2(58)SE2?

2012-01-18 Thread Jeff Kell
192.168.128.74 eq smtp syslog log log Corny, but if they're going to botch up a maintenance release like that... Chuck -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Kell Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 4:47 PM

[c-nsp] Catalyst IOS version skip - significant difference or just numbers game?

2012-01-04 Thread Jeff Kell
After checking some software revision data during the holiday break, I noticed that the 29xx/35xx Catalyst IOS train has jumped 12.2(58)SE up to 15.0(1)SE. Is there really a significant difference, or is this just a marketing numbers game to look more current ? And if you've already made the

Re: [c-nsp] vs route leaking into globasl on the samer box

2012-01-02 Thread Jeff Kell
You can insert statics to an L3 interface with a next-hop of a second router (very kludgy and inefficient, but required for the reason you discovered). You can use a FWSM or external box to handle the route [leak]. You can loop a cable between global and the target VRF. You can do VRF Selection

[c-nsp] RSPAN through intermediate switch...

2011-12-02 Thread Jeff Kell
Is it possible to run an RSPAN vlan through (not an endpoint, just transport) an intermediate switch (specifically Foundry/Brocade FCX switch)? I would suspect that mac address learning on the switch would interfere with RSPAN, and I can't find a Brocade equivalent of the mac-learn interface

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 3560X performance in the wild

2011-11-22 Thread Jeff Kell
On 11/22/2011 5:15 PM, Peter Rathlev wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 12:59 -0700, Dave wrote: I was wondering if anyone has used the 3560X-48T switches and would be kind enough to give me the good/bad/ugly on them ? We have a couple of WS-C3560X-48T-Ls in use. They seem to function just as well

Re: [c-nsp] 3750X stacking with 3750 ??

2011-10-12 Thread Jeff Kell
On 10/12/2011 8:56 AM, Jeffrey G. Fitzwater wrote: Does anybody know that absolute answer, if a 3750X can or cannot stack with a 3750 or 3750E ? A 3750X LAN Base image cannot stack with anything (other than another 3750X LAN Base image switch). A 3750X IP Base or IP Services will stack with

[c-nsp] ASA VPN groups... pointer/howto/cookbook?

2011-09-28 Thread Jeff Kell
I have been running standard VPN client profiles for VPN access for quite a few years, on PIX and now on ASA. I'm working on our next generation prototype now, and the number of VPN groups are growing a bit out of hand. Up to this point we have been distributing groups/roles by providing a

Re: [c-nsp] Anyone using 2960-C or 3560-C compact catalyst switches?

2011-09-22 Thread Jeff Kell
We have a few 2960Cs as well as 3560Cs. They are almost cool, except... -- there's no PoE 2960C -- and the 3560C is IPBase only Jeff ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at

Re: [c-nsp] VRF Selection based on IP

2011-09-06 Thread Jeff Kell
On 9/6/2011 12:03 PM, Dave Weis wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion on how to implement VRF selection based on incoming IP on a 7200? http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_0s/feature/guide/vrfselec.html This is listed as only being supported on the 12000 series. I don't know about the

Re: [c-nsp] How to terminate 100.000 IPsec VPN clients?

2011-09-06 Thread Jeff Kell
On 9/6/2011 8:09 PM, Chris Evans wrote: Checked the 5585 limits? It's supposed to blow a 5580 out of the water... On paper. I don't think anyone has mentioned it yet, but there is also ASA VPN Load Balancing clusters. You can combine a number of boxes together, configure the cluster

Re: [c-nsp] just installed a Huawei...

2011-07-27 Thread Jeff Kell
On 7/27/2011 4:52 PM, Scott Granados wrote: How does this differ from what Foundry did? :) The CLI in the fast iron or server iron gear for example is pretty damn similar. The router bgp commands were absolutely the same and the only difference was the way that foundry named interfaces.

[c-nsp] ASA 8.3/8.4 management issues...

2011-07-26 Thread Jeff Kell
I have some remote sites running off of ASA 5505s, and an existing VPN cluster running 8.4(2). For consistency's sake, I was trying to update the 5505s to 8.4(2) -- had one on 7.2 and one on 8.1. Everything appears to be working on them except management sessions (ssh or https or ASDM), they

Re: [c-nsp] ASA 8.3/8.4 management issues...

2011-07-26 Thread Jeff Kell
On 7/26/2011 10:58 AM, Ryan West wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:44:19, Jeff Kell wrote: Subject: [c-nsp] ASA 8.3/8.4 management issues... I have some remote sites running off of ASA 5505s, and an existing VPN cluster running 8.4(2). I've rolled everything back to 8.4.1 interim. I have

Re: [c-nsp] etherchannel load-balancing and unpredictability

2011-07-19 Thread Jeff Kell
On 7/19/2011 8:22 PM, Keegan Holley wrote: The being said the other algorithms are just as unpredictable for just the same reasons. It depends completely on your traffic patterns. Adding TCP/UDP port may even this out a bit but I don't believe it is supported on the 3560. 3550:

Re: [c-nsp] sup2T software release notes have hit

2011-07-18 Thread Jeff Kell
On 7/18/2011 3:12 PM, Gert Doering wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 08:17:56PM +0200, Asbjorn Hojmark - Lists wrote: Sup2T will have IOS-XE Sometime Later(TM). There will be modular IOS for 6500!! Call me unconvinced. ... I'll go and play Duke Nukem Forever in the meantime... You can

[c-nsp] ASA VPN client update feature...

2011-07-11 Thread Jeff Kell
The ASA VPN in 8.x has an IPsec Client Update feature built-in that I was looking over. Basically it will do a version check and you can provide a URL to download new software, for Windows (general), Win 95/98/ME, WinNT/2000/XP, MacOS, and LInux. There appear to be no provisions for WIndows

[c-nsp] ASA VPN, enabling Windows L2TP?

2011-07-08 Thread Jeff Kell
Yes, another PIX migration question ('tis the season...). Our legacy VPN has several groups / profiles for different access types. I have been able to move these to the ASA successfully (users have VPN client, and get a matching profile .pcf for their respective access). The legacy used

Re: [c-nsp] MultiChassis LACP

2011-07-05 Thread Jeff Kell
On 7/5/2011 8:48 PM, Timothy Riendeau wrote: Have you actually done it with the 3750? I cannot find anything on cco about 3750 mlacp. Yes. It will do multi-chassis blind trunking (mode on) or LACP (mode active). It will not do PAgP multi-chassis. Switch Ports Model SW Version

Re: [c-nsp] multichassis lacp

2011-07-05 Thread Jeff Kell
On 7/5/2011 9:12 PM, Quinn Snyder wrote: 2960-s. stacking was afflicted with serious bugs up until a few months ago. seems to be stable with current code. There is the 3750/3750G/3750E which can stack / multi-chassis, and you can add 3750X IPBase/IPServices to that mix. There is the 3750X LAN

[c-nsp] ASA 8.3 full-tunnel VPN paradox...

2011-06-29 Thread Jeff Kell
I'm working on replacing an old PIX VPN setup with a new ASA, and having a bear of a time with a full tunnel setup. The PIX (old 6.x software) has setups for both split-tunnel and full-tunnel profiles. It is *not* the outbound gateway for internet-destined traffic. Our internet traffic goes

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