[c-nsp] NATing guest VRF and default VRF on edge router

2013-01-03 Thread Justin Shore
Folks, Long time no see! I'm back on c-nsp after a long hiatus with a question. I'm having trouble getting NAT to work in IOS on some CEs (2821 and 3925 running 15). The site has a VRF for guest traffic and uses the default VRF for corporate traffic. Previously they had a 3rd-party

Re: [c-nsp] VTP war stories (was Re: EoMPLS or VPLS loop prevention/storm control)

2011-02-14 Thread Justin Shore
On 2/10/2011 4:06 AM, Gert Doering wrote: Well, the point is that there are not enough saveguards in VTP v1 and v2 to require some more active wrongdoing to make it explode - and if it explodes, it usually requires walking to the some of the affected devices to get it fixed. Things like

Re: [c-nsp] Hiding MPLS L3VPN hops from the CE

2010-08-24 Thread Justin Shore
On 8/22/2010 6:31 AM, Peter Hicks wrote: Just out of interest - is this for marketing reasons, or technical? At my ISP it was for security reasons. Our infrastructure was privately addressed to limit exposure to the outside world. In theory, a true MPLS P core is analogous to a pure L2

[c-nsp] 3rd-party unofficial SFP support in 3560X/3750X switches

2010-05-26 Thread Justin Shore
Does anyone happen to know if the 'service unsupported-transceiver' command still works in the new 3560X/3750X series switches? I have a need for super long-range single strand SFPs and would rather use switches over media converters if I can help it. Thanks Justin

Re: [c-nsp] Self rebooting pix?

2010-01-27 Thread Justin Shore
Jason Gurtz wrote: After each drop this counter returns to 0 which tells me the Pix is rebooting for some reason. [...] experienced this. The software rev is 6.3. We experienced this on a 515E running 6.3 code. A move to the 7.0 series solved this issue. Same thing here. It would crash

Re: [c-nsp] 6500 (Sup7203-bxl / 6724-SFP) Input queue drops

2010-01-11 Thread Justin Shore
joshua sahala wrote: drew, it may or may not be related, but...check the output of 'sh counter int int [delta]' and look at the qos[1-21][In|Out]lost counters. i was experiencing various drops due to the default interface (qos) buffer allocation: basically, all of my traffic was hitting the

Re: [c-nsp] Data Center cooling

2010-01-07 Thread Justin Shore
scott owens wrote: Hello, Has anyone looked at using outside air to provide data center cooling during the winter season ? I am aware of Google and Intel research into this area but how about on a smaller scale ? How about raising ambient temperatures as well - do you keep your data

[c-nsp] IS-IS Ethertype

2010-01-05 Thread Justin Shore
Hey guys. I hope you all had a good holiday break. Does anyone know for sure what the Ethertype is for the CLNS packets? I've found a couple IEFT drafts that talk about it it to a degree: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-isis-ext-eth-01

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco logging commands

2009-12-08 Thread Justin Shore
Henry-Nicolas Tourneur wrote: I'm not willing to use Tacacs+ because I'm setting-up a new server environment and I don't want to need to manually compile tac-plus and get broken dependencies after an upgrade. I've been using OSS tacacs+ daemons for nearly a decade and have yet to run into a

Re: [c-nsp] ASR1004 vs 7606(RSP720-CXL)

2009-11-27 Thread Justin Shore
Jason Plank wrote: Really. The product seems to be selling quite well. You are over stating. Keep it real. Hardly. It means that people are using the Nexus as a L2 switching workhorse and relying on additional L3 hardware to bring in the basic MPLS/VPN capabilities. Justin

Re: [c-nsp] ASR1004 vs 7606(RSP720-CXL)

2009-11-27 Thread Justin Shore
Lincoln Dale wrote: so some extent it depends on exactly how far 'down' into your DC you extend MPLS VPNs. for example, do you extend it down to the access layer? or at what point do you map a MPLS VPN into a VRF or VLAN? Our MPLS/VPNs stop above our top-of-rack L2 switches with VRFs mapped

Re: [c-nsp] is a DWDM SFP a DWDM SFP?

2009-11-25 Thread Justin Shore
Scott McGrath wrote: Or Cisco could do something RADICAL and actually support the industry standard optics model like they USED to for GBIC's I can understand their position on 3rd-party optics not meeting spec and not inter-opting well. I've seen that many times myself on 3rd-party

Re: [c-nsp] is a DWDM SFP a DWDM SFP?

2009-11-25 Thread Justin Shore
Bill Blackford wrote: I do not believe that Juniper keys their optics. My experience with this is limited though. I am able to get third-party optics to work just fine in EX switches. bblackf...@wsc-asw-02-1 show chassis hardware Hardware inventory: Item Version Part number

Re: [c-nsp] 6500 - What determines whether certain traffic is punted or not?

2009-11-24 Thread Justin Shore
Drew Weaver wrote: Hi, No HSRP, VRRP or GLBP on this box. #sh mac-address-table aging-time VlanAging Time -- Global 300 no vlan age other than global age configured Routed MAC aging time: 300 seconds This is on our core, though so there are no hosts connected here.

Re: [c-nsp] is a DWDM SFP a DWDM SFP?

2009-11-24 Thread Justin Shore
Jeff Bacon wrote: Will the SFPs from the ONS systems work in a cat6500? There's a plethora of ONS-SC-2G SFPs out there, but not so many DWDM-SFP- modules. I'm guessing that the disparity in supply means they don't work, but would like some confirm. (Have a temporary need to run a gig over

Re: [c-nsp] New feature, can't find it documented - NTP using DNS

2009-11-23 Thread Justin Shore
Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) wrote: I think the config doesn't honor TTL, so the implementation is rather basic.. Would that be basic as in it only resolves the FQDN once when the config is entered, once per boot, or possibly on a schedule later on in the lifecycle of the router? I noticed

Re: [c-nsp] New feature, can't find it documented - NTP using DNS

2009-11-23 Thread Justin Shore
Jared Mauch wrote: On Nov 23, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Justin Shore wrote: I noticed other changes between 24T1 and 24T2 that bit me this weekend when I upgraded 2 routers that are my NTP servers. First off all the NTP config that was moved way up in the config in an earlier release suddenly got

Re: [c-nsp] New feature, can't find it documented - NTP using DNS

2009-11-23 Thread Justin Shore
Mark Tinka wrote: Like when we moved from SRC3 to SRC5 earlier this month, RANCID reported minor but strange changes to the configuration order, e.g., the 'police' command under a policy-map has been given one extra TAB indent. This looks very weird if you also have a 'set mpls experimental'

Re: [c-nsp] Anyone seeing excessive shipping delays on ASR1006 and Catalyst 4500 series equipment?

2009-11-23 Thread Justin Shore
Jeremy Reid wrote: Hey Group, Has anyone recently been seeing unusual/extended delivery dates being provided on Cisco ASR1000 series or Catalyst 4500 gear? We've had some sizable orders in place since July and we keep getting the ship date extended out each time it approaches. Currently,

Re: [c-nsp] reverse path filtering doesn't seem to work

2009-11-22 Thread Justin Shore
Mike wrote: Yes it's enabled per the above. The drops only occur when I use: ip verify unicast source reachable-via rx However, I discovered that if I instead use: ip verify unicast source reachable-via any allow-default That seems to at least not drop packets, but I haven't tested to see

Re: [c-nsp] [j-nsp] Network Liberation Movement???

2009-11-22 Thread Justin Shore
William McCall wrote: Sorry to re-open. Good job to HP for generating noise. Anyone want to buy some procurve switches? I don't own a boat, hence no need for a boat anchor. Justin ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net

Re: [c-nsp] BDF over port-channels?

2009-11-17 Thread Justin Shore
luismi wrote: I wrote it in a previous email but here is again :D 7200 npe-g2 and 7600 rsp720-pfc3 I am using 12.2SRC but it is not supported there an I would like to know if it is supported in another train. 12.2SR is all you can run on the RSP720. SX and SR will both run on the Sup720

Re: [c-nsp] how to make ASA vrf-aware / remote-access client VPN

2009-11-03 Thread Justin Shore
Ge Moua wrote: C-NSP Wizards: Our Cisco account team seems to be touting the ASA appliance (in a cluster configuration) as the preferred solution for remote access client vpn (IPSec SSL); as such my question then is: Is it possible to make an ASA be vrf-aware? My suggestion may not be

Re: [c-nsp] show logging system ??

2009-10-28 Thread Justin Shore
Jeff Fitzwater wrote: We had a module fail on a 6500, which reseating it cured it for now. Looking at the System Logs using the show logging system I see the following messages at the time of the failure.I have not found the explanation anywhere on the CISCO site for the values in these

Re: [c-nsp] Aftermarket/DIY mounts for Cisco ISR AIMs

2009-10-28 Thread Justin Shore
Dale Shaw wrote: Hi, Long story short: we've got a bunch of VPN AIMs but no mounts (stand-offs/spacers). It happened 'cause a colleague removed them for government security compliance reasons, but left the mounts behind (still attached to the system board). It's not feasible to recover the

[c-nsp] Ignoring 7200 Bandwidth Points

2009-10-24 Thread Justin Shore
I've got a 7206VXR w/ 4 PA-A3-OC3SMI PAs serving a couple thousand PVCs of RBE DSL. I have another 2x OC3s on a 3660 doing the same thing only with less PVCs. The 3660 crashed twice earlier this week in one day. Once was on its own. The second was in the middle of a sh tech. I sent the

[c-nsp] 12.4(24)T2 has been released

2009-10-23 Thread Justin Shore
Just a reminder to all those who were waiting on the release of 12.4(24)T2 that addressed most of the bugs reported by PSIRT on 9/23, 24T2 was posted this morning. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_4t/release/notes/124TCAVS.html It's supposed to also address the bug that prevents NTP

Re: [c-nsp] Inserting a default route into a MPLS/VPN pointing out of the VRF

2009-10-20 Thread Justin Shore
Phil Bedard wrote: If you are already using a VRF to carry the default table you should be able to import a default route from that vrf into your customer vrf. You can use an import-map to select only the default. The only time I've implemented something similar to this I've used external

Re: [c-nsp] Inserting a default route into a MPLS/VPN pointing out of the VRF

2009-10-20 Thread Justin Shore
Brett Frankenberger wrote: Cisco has no support for: ip route vrf vrfX x.x.x.x/x next-hop next-hop vrfY where the traffic in vrfX matching that route would be sent over into vrfY (and then forwarded according to vryY's forwarding table). (Some other vendors can do that.) (In your case, you

[c-nsp] Inserting a default route into a MPLS/VPN pointing out of the VRF

2009-10-19 Thread Justin Shore
I'm having to rush a MPLS/VPN into service this week. Certain customers will connect into this MPLS/VPN on PEs facing L2 switches with sub-ints in the correct VRF, MLPPP bundles, direct connect to PEs, etc (lots of variety down the road). Simple so far. The majority of the traffic will exit

Re: [c-nsp] Unable To Use T3 Card (PA-MC-2T3-EC)

2009-10-12 Thread Justin Shore
Gert Doering wrote: I am currently running (C7200P-SPSERVICESK9-M), Version 12.4(4)XD10 ... it might be that this software just doesn't know about this specific PA (which is very new, and anything based on 12.4(4) is a few years old now regarding hardware support). C7200P smells like NPE-G2,

Re: [c-nsp] Anomaly Detection Module/Anomaly Guard Module

2009-10-08 Thread Justin Shore
Drew Weaver wrote: I was wondering if anyone has any experience working with the Cisco ADM AGM modules for the 6500s and how they compare with external appliance based solutions for DDoS mitigation. Anyone have any opinions on these? It seems like it would be nice to just drop these into a

Re: [c-nsp] Problem encountered while securing NTP

2009-10-07 Thread Justin Shore
Kevin Graham wrote: CSCsw79186. Its broken more than the bug suggests; both v3 and v4 clients are get applied only to the 'peer' access-group. I had meant to bring this to PSIRT's attention when the advisory went out, but got distracted by something shiny. Excellent catch. I tried to search

[c-nsp] Problem encountered while securing NTP

2009-10-06 Thread Justin Shore
Given the recent NTP PSIRT from Cisco (cisco-sa-20090923-ntp) I decided to spend the morning revisiting my NTP practices to lessen the chance of getting kicked in the teeth by this router-crashing bug later on. In my networks I usually have a pair (or more sometimes) of border routers as

Re: [c-nsp] Will UDLD work with converters ?

2009-10-05 Thread Justin Shore
Mark Tinka wrote: We've seen strange issues with converters were providers were unable to guarantee Jumbo frame MTU sizes because the media converters don't support them - what the hell... This happened to me with Versitron MCs. I had a set in production that worked perfectly fine. Then

Re: [c-nsp] Will UDLD work with converters ?

2009-10-02 Thread Justin Shore
Jeff Fitzwater wrote: Is there any issues with running UDLD with TX to Fiber converters at each end of a gig cisco to cisco link? We are just over the distance budget with the 10KM optics. 6500 TX port--- to fiber converter--- 18KM fiber--- to converter--- back to TX port on 3750. Should

Re: [c-nsp] Will UDLD work with converters ?

2009-10-02 Thread Justin Shore
a completely unique set of GigE optics just for the ONSs. I can understand to a degree Cisco only supporting Cisco optics but not even all of Cisco supports all of Cisco's optics. That's the worst part about it. On 02/10/2009 15:27, Justin Shore wrote: Back to your question though, yes UDLD

Re: [c-nsp] Will UDLD work with converters ?

2009-10-02 Thread Justin Shore
nick hatch wrote: I get that too, but I strongly disagree with the strategy. In this part of the world (Whatcom/Skagit county, Washington state), dark fiber is cheap and readily available for about the cost of a T1 in many locations. (If buildout is required, it's often subsidized into the

Re: [c-nsp] Hardware for 'managed firewall'

2009-09-30 Thread Justin Shore
David Hughes wrote: Interesting. I thought NSM was much better than Cisco's CSM (and a hell of a lot cheaper). You should really take a look at the new ADSM releases for the FWSMs. It's actually pretty good. You have full control of all contexts if you aim ADSM at the admin context. Of

Re: [c-nsp] Smartnet pricing?

2009-09-29 Thread Justin Shore
Steven Saner wrote: Is this really available? I was asking a SmartNet rep about this once and was led to believe this isn't an option. Maybe it wasn't then and is now? Maybe they were pulling my leg? Sure. For a 7206VXR the part number is SP-SW-7206VXRN. However I don't generally recommend

Re: [c-nsp] Smartnet pricing?

2009-09-29 Thread Justin Shore
Gert Doering wrote: How do people get these part numbers? For our smartnet contracts, getting the right numbers for various 6500+sup720 combinations seems to be nearly impossible. Gert, Two ways that I can think of. The first is from the Global Price List on cisco.com:

Re: [c-nsp] Hardware for 'managed firewall'

2009-09-29 Thread Justin Shore
Dave Weis wrote: We want to provide a hosted/managed firewall service for our MPLS customers. Is a pair of ASA's with multiple contexts the best way to do this or would something else work better? I'm not concerned with the customers being able to make changes themselves. We do this with a

Re: [c-nsp] Another bughunt, this time VRF PBR

2009-09-27 Thread Justin Shore
David Freedman wrote: wonder if anybody has come across this before, in 12.4(15)T, configuring a virtual-access per-user such: I hate to suggest the obvious but since there are so many bugs in 12.4(15)T have you considered bumping that to the latest minor rev? I think they're up to T7 or

Re: [c-nsp] Power Issue

2009-09-27 Thread Justin Shore
Mohammad Khalil wrote: We have Cisco device cisco ME-C6524GT-8S (R7000) processor (revision 1.3) with 458752K/65536K bytes of memory. now the issue is that we have in each site a device like the mentioned and a WiMAX RAS , all is functoning on DC power now the issue is that we are

Re: [c-nsp] ASA5520 which image should I use?

2009-09-25 Thread Justin Shore
Antonio Soares wrote: Stay away from 8.2. We are experiencing crashes since July (TAC case involved). Tomorrow we will install 8.2.1-10 to see if finally we get rid of this. I've had good luck with 8.2.1-3 for our purposes. Any 8.2 prior to that has that nasty coredump feature that writes

Re: [c-nsp] ASA5520 which image should I use?

2009-09-25 Thread Justin Shore
nm...@guesswho.com wrote: Justin, I believe I saw your posts on the RANCID list and although the 8.2 coredump problem can be a pain you can modify your rancid script to ignore the coredump file when rancid does a show flash. I do this for dhcp snooping since the db is small enough that I can

Re: [c-nsp] Download manager hell and latest Windows VPN Client?

2009-09-24 Thread Justin Shore
Justin M. Streiner wrote: My main argument against the download manager applet is that I hate dealing with several layers of dependency hell with Java. Does the download manager work with the Java plugin in my web browser when that plugin is based on different JRE versions? Also, there seems

Re: [c-nsp] Download manager hell and latest Windows VPN Client?

2009-09-24 Thread Justin Shore
Gert Doering wrote: I really can't understand what is so hard about FTP access. Fill in a web form once, claim yes, I'm no terrorist!, and then the FTP servers put you into a he's no terrorist, may download crypto software group... This is really Internet 0.9 knowledge. Or if they are

Re: [c-nsp] Download manager hell and latest Windows VPN Client?

2009-09-24 Thread Justin Shore
Brian Landers wrote: Same reason that e.g. Vandyke requires an eligibility declaration before downloading SecureCRT. Yes, but even Vandyke now lets you answer the question once and no longer have to answer it again. (Saying this as I'm downloading the SCRT 6.2.3 upgrade right now with my

Re: [c-nsp] modular code for the 6500

2009-09-24 Thread Justin Shore
harbor235 wrote: Is anyone out there using 6500 modular code? Is it stable? I have a 6509 with 720-3B, I would like to use the modualr code but also do not want instability, any thoughts/experiences would be appreciated. If you go the modular route make sure you use the Feature Navigator to

Re: [c-nsp] OSPF to ISIS migartion

2009-09-23 Thread Justin Shore
jack daniels wrote: Hi all , I have got a project for an ISP ( also LDP configured ) runnning OSPF to migrate to IS-IS. I was planning to runnn dual IGP , as ospf with AD 110 and ISIS with AD 115 , OSPF will always be preffered. I was planning the challenges for migration, below are the ones

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten meon this?

2009-09-21 Thread Justin Shore
Daniska, Tomas wrote: (btw - asking for requeue to bru is what everybody reasonable at Cisco recommends to do - of course for europe...) Does anyone know what the equivalent would be in the states? I try my best to open cases first thing in the morning (CST) when I'm likely to get someone

[c-nsp] Comparison of T3 and T1 PAs?

2009-09-21 Thread Justin Shore
Does anyone know of a good article, table or chart that compares the various T3 and T1 PA options? I've found a variety of docs but nothing of them giving a clear and concise list of differences between the PAs (features, chassis support, NPE support, etc). PA-T3 PA-T3+ PA-MC-T3 PA-MC-T3+

Re: [c-nsp] Out of order queuing

2009-09-21 Thread Justin Shore
chris.f...@yahoo.ca wrote: Hello, We have a customer with load-balanced path to us. TCP throughput is affected by some out-of-order packets, and we were looking for a way to queue the interface in order to try and mitigate this. Is it possible to use any queueing mechanism to re-order packets

Re: [c-nsp] Enhanced download procedure

2009-09-18 Thread Justin Shore
Jay Hennigan wrote: What the #$^$...@# is going on with Cisco's download site? It completely hangs Firefox with some shopping cart java thing. And this is downright scary: http://www.west.net/~jay/images/cisco-wants-root.png Enhanced downloads, brought to you by the same people who brought

Re: [c-nsp] Enhanced download procedure

2009-09-18 Thread Justin Shore
Dale W. Carder wrote: Is there a workaround? I found a workaround. I couldn't download a file due to some stupid java error, so I opened a tac case for them to give me the file. Maybe after this happens enough times and costs them real money it will get fixed. That's even better than my

[c-nsp] SP-grade Ethernet over TDM

2009-09-15 Thread Justin Shore
Does anyone have any suggestions for providing Ethernet links over bonded T1s? We originally looked at Overture. They claimed that their product used standard MLPPP and interoped well with 7200s. They sent out a tech to help configure it in a lab. As it turns out they also require the use

Re: [c-nsp] Cat 4948 NAT support

2009-09-14 Thread Justin Shore
Dan Benson wrote: I have a 4948 that I was hoping to upgrade a few systems with but I am dead in the water as it seems it does not support NAT. I don't have any idea how to make it work but I do question doing NAT on a CAT to begin with. Even if it did support NAT it would be done in

Re: [c-nsp] 3750 - power AC / DC

2009-09-10 Thread Justin Shore
Vikas Sharma wrote: Hi, Is there any command on 3750 (e and non-E) switches which can tell whether the power is AC or DC in the box? Like in 7206 we have sh environemnt.. Something along this line? me3750-1.dc#sh ver | i IOS Cisco IOS Software, C3750ME Software (C3750ME-I5K91-M), Version

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Security Advisory: TCP State Manipulation Denial ofService Vulnerabilities in Multiple Cisco Products

2009-09-09 Thread Justin Shore
Antonio Soares wrote: Hello group, What actions are you taking ? What is the real risk ? http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20090908-tcp24.shtml If I'm reading the notes correctly, to exploit the problem the attacker must be able to complete a TCP 3-way handshake. That would

Re: [c-nsp] CALEA was Re: OT - Dark Fiber

2009-09-06 Thread Justin Shore
Scott Granados wrote: Why does anyone comply with CALEA? Especially after the abuses of the last 8 years and probably a lot farther back than that? I've been reading about the requirements and the idea that ISPs cooperate with law enforcement really makes me uneasy on a civil liberties

[c-nsp] Options for customer prefix injection into iBGP at the edge

2009-09-03 Thread Justin Shore
I'm soliciting suggestions on the pros and cons on the assortment of ways to inject customer routes into iBGP at the edge. One could simply reference prefix-lists in the BGP config on a per-neighbor basis (or peer-group). The downside to this is that prefix-lists can't haven't inline

Re: [c-nsp] do i *need* DFCs on the 6500?

2009-09-02 Thread Justin Shore
You eluded to one of my strongest selling points on DFCs though I don't think you made that particular connection yet. DFCs offload QoS to the LC as you said. That also means that CoPP is also handled in hardware if you have DFCs in place since it requires MLS QoS on that platform. Ie, if

Re: [c-nsp] Multiple power supply failures. Advise needed

2009-09-01 Thread Justin Shore
Michael Ulitskiy wrote: As for grounding lug I would gladly add it to 6500 chassis if that was the only problem. Running it to every piece of equipment which count about 50 pieces at the moment wouldn't be fun at all... Doh... I hate to say it, but the devices shouldn't have gone into

Re: [c-nsp] Multiple power supply failures. Advise needed

2009-09-01 Thread Justin Shore
Michael Ulitskiy wrote: I forgot to mention that after the 1st wave of failures we have installed tripp lite surge protectors on all circuits. These last failures happened with tripp lites installed, so it shouldn't be transients. The events are random. Happened during daytime, night-time,

Re: [c-nsp] Multiple power supply failures. Advise needed

2009-09-01 Thread Justin Shore
Unless you scrapped the paint off of every joint between the chassis through the mounting brackets to the rack then you aren't guaranteed a good connection. That's why most telco screw kits come with the star washer to help scrap the paint of the rack and why most telco equipment frames and

Re: [c-nsp] 6500 QoS

2009-08-24 Thread Justin Shore
Randy McAnally wrote: We got minor packet loss and noticeably slower speeds off the bat with 'mls qos' enabled with all defaults, even with only 40-50% interface utilization. In fact it took a while to figure it out. Be very careful when you enable it if even minor packet loss will be an

Re: [c-nsp] BFD on 7600

2009-08-21 Thread Justin Shore
MKS wrote: Can you share your experience with BFD on the 7600 platform and sw release? I use it and like it. However beginning with SRB2 Cisco removed support for running BFD on SVIs. To date there is no workaround and the feature hasn't been added back to SR. Otherwise it works fine in

[c-nsp] Order of Operations for processing a packet (ingress and egress)

2009-08-18 Thread Justin Shore
Does anyone have any good links to an order of operations for what happens in what order on the assorted types of Cisco interfaces in both the ingress and egress directions? I found one that touchs on the QoS order of operations:

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

2009-08-17 Thread Justin Shore
Security Team wrote: I have a telco that wants to hand me an OC3 on which there will be 3 DS3's, all doing different things. One will be a clear channel (pt-pt) DS3, one will contain 28 T1's in the DS1 time slots of the DS3, and one will be unused for the time being. CJ, I'm going to agree

Re: [c-nsp] Feedback on Bug Toolkit (BTK), IOS Software Download Planner, etc...

2009-08-17 Thread Justin Shore
Rodney, Do you think you might be able to gain the ear of someone responsible for the CSCC? I've had ongoing issues with it ever since it was introduced. I raised those concerns several times and they were never resolved. Now that SCC has been completely deleted and replaced with CSCC I

[c-nsp] EEM applets and conditional statements

2009-08-11 Thread Justin Shore
I'm having trouble figuring out how to use the conditional capabilities of EEM applets to do something fairly simple. I'd like to check for DHCP conflicts on a schedule and if any exist I'd like to generate a syslog message and send an email. What I can't figure out how to do is parse the

Re: [c-nsp] Policing on a 3560

2009-08-05 Thread Justin Shore
I'm getting pushback from TAC on this. They're telling me that using class-default is unsupported and they pointed me to the config guide for the platform as proof:

[c-nsp] Policing on a 3560

2009-08-04 Thread Justin Shore
I'm having a little trouble doing something that should be simple. I'm using a 3560 as a CPE to break up multiple services and bind them to unique switchports. I don't normally use 3560s for this. The port in question is for a 10Mbp PtP with no SLA across our backbone. What I currently

Re: [c-nsp] BFD + BGP on 7600 SRC or SRD

2009-07-30 Thread Justin Shore
the same apply to SVI + OSPF ? Any known reason for this limitiation ? (Waiting for my test 7606s to arrive!) Dean - Original Message - From: Justin Shore jus...@justinshore.com To: Walter Keen walter.k...@rainierconnect.net Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 4

Re: [c-nsp] BFD + BGP on 7600 SRC or SRD

2009-07-29 Thread Justin Shore
Walter Keen wrote: Hi, I'm looking at using BFD with BGP on 7600's (rsp720's and sup720-3b) and was wondering if there were any known issues with certain IOS's in the SRC or SRD train. BFD support for SVIs was removed with SRB2 if that's something that you think you'll need. Justin

Re: [c-nsp] CISCO AS5300 Shuts Down Abruptly

2009-07-29 Thread Justin Shore
Jon Lewis wrote: If by shut down, you mean all the lights go out, fans stop, etc., then it sounds like you may have a power supply gone bad. If you mean it stops working, but lights are on, fans are spinning, just the software's locked up, then it be all sorts of things. If it's doing either

Re: [c-nsp] Humor: Cisco announces end of BGP

2009-07-28 Thread Justin Shore
Hank Nussbacher wrote: I just got this product alert from Cisco: From: cisconotificationserv...@cisco.com To: h...@efes.iucc.ac.il Subject: Cisco Notification Alert -Alerts_Daily-07/28/2009 07:38 GMT Cisco Notification Service Alert: Cisco Notification Alert -Alerts_Daily-07/28/2009 07:38

Re: [c-nsp] Humor: Cisco announces end of BGP

2009-07-28 Thread Justin Shore
According to a Pannaway SE who visited us a few years ago, he'd seen SPs many times our size who used static routes for everything. He said we weren't big enough to need a routing protocol. Of course he also said that our pipes weren't saturated so we didn't need QoS and that IPv6 was just a

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Catalyst 2960PD-8TT-L

2009-07-27 Thread Justin Shore
Dracul wrote: Hi All, I can't seem to find more information of this model in the datasheets. Can anyone confirm if this switch (Cisco Catalyst 2960PD-8TT-L) has CLI and SNMP? The only Cisco-branded switches in the product line that won't have have a CLI are the Express switches. This of

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Catalyst 2960PD-8TT-L

2009-07-27 Thread Justin Shore
Nick Hilliard wrote: On 27/07/2009 17:39, Justin Shore wrote: The only Cisco-branded switches in the product line that won't have have a CLI are the Express switches. This of course means that the LinkSys switches won't have a Cisco CLI (if they have one at all which I doubt). http

[c-nsp] 7206 NPE-G2 crash caused by a bouncing DS1

2009-07-22 Thread Justin Shore
Has anyone out there experienced any 7206 crashes when they have a bouncing DS1 on a PA-MC-2T3-EC? We've had 2 crashes in about 3 weeks time. They've both generated crashinfo files. The first auto-rebooted itself. Yesterday's did not. System returned to ROM by error - a SegV exception, PC

Re: [c-nsp] 7206 NPE-G2 crash caused by a bouncing DS1

2009-07-22 Thread Justin Shore
The MLPPP interface was part of a VRF, had an IP and had uRPF configured. Other than that no L3 IGPs. I do use BGP dampening but I'm distributing this route into iBGP. MP-BGP to carry the MPLS/VPN vpnv4 routes but not using BGP for ip4 address-family routes. I should also mention that

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS MTU / Jumbo frames etc.

2009-07-22 Thread Justin Shore
Brandon Applegate wrote: I think I figured (part of) this out. Packets to the router != packets through the router. Trying to ping something on the far side with packet size of 9188/9216 gets me the expected icmp frag @ 9212. I still think I'm going to proclaim that jumbo == 9000 to make it

Re: [c-nsp] edge router BGP

2009-07-19 Thread Justin Shore
Gert Doering wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 04:20:50PM -0500, Justin Shore wrote: It has 5x the backplane to boot plus it's hardware forwarding. The only real downside IMHO is that the unit uses SPAs which require SmartNets per SPA (per license and per a lot of other things

Re: [c-nsp] edge router BGP

2009-07-16 Thread Justin Shore
Mark Tinka wrote: I was thinking more, ASR1000 series. Will do wire rate, has a large enough control plane to handle multiple full tables to customers, is the natural progression from the 7200-VXR platform, e.t.c. I second (third?) the ASR 1002 suggestion. @ list price the 5Gbps ASR 1002

[c-nsp] SNMP OID to see if a Tn interface is looped up?

2009-07-16 Thread Justin Shore
Does anyone happen to know if there's an SNMP OID that one can query to see if a standalone T1, T1 channelized inside of a T3 or OC3, or a high-capacity TDM interfaces like a T3 is looped up at the CSU? I've had an occasion where a T1 was left looped up by the local-loop provider that I

Re: [c-nsp] SNMP OID to see if a Tn interface is looped up?

2009-07-16 Thread Justin Shore
Ryan West wrote: Justin, Give this a shot: http://tools.cisco.com/Support/SNMP/do/BrowseMIB.do?local=enstep=2mibName=CISCO-ICSUDSU-MIB That MIB contains values for different loop codes. Ryan, That looks like a very useful MIB. I'll give that a try. I looked at the source of the

[c-nsp] Give Cisco your feedback on the new download experience at tacwebsur...@cisco.com (was: several heart-felt flames regarding the mess that is the Cisco.com download experience)

2009-07-14 Thread Justin Shore
I received this message from Cisco yesterday. I found the timing to be rather ironic. I've munged the survey URL; I'm going to fill that out. I would encourage EVERYONE to participate in this process by sending a letter to tacwebsur...@cisco.com to let them know how they really feel about

Re: [c-nsp] Give Cisco your feedback on the new download experience at tacwebsur...@cisco.com

2009-07-14 Thread Justin Shore
You might Google for a list of negative adjectives to keep on hand for the call. If you can't find a list online I'm sure you know some people who can help contribute to one just for this occasion. Justin Jared Mauch wrote: I'm having a call with some people in a few minutes, I will share

Re: [c-nsp] Disallowing sw tru all vlan X w/o add or remove (was: Maximum spannig tree instances)

2009-07-14 Thread Justin Shore
Gert Doering wrote: Now: what happens if the TACACS server is unavailable? The way we currently run the shop is there is a local username configured as fallback if TACACS doesn't respond - and people know that they get slapped if they use this user without good reason. How would command

Re: [c-nsp] Baseline CoPP policies?

2009-07-08 Thread Justin Shore
One thing that the documentation always lacks is sufficient info on handling IS-IS with CoPP. The inability of IOS to match IS-IS traffic without using class-default is a major problem. Of all the people that would need CoPP (people with publicly exposed routers like SPs) one would think

Re: [c-nsp] PIX/ASA Change Control

2009-06-25 Thread Justin Shore
Like Ryan said, clogin takes care of it. The only problem I've run into is with v8.2 of the ASA code. Some nimrod programmer thought it would be a good idea to store config related to the new core dump option in v8.2 in a text file on the flash volume. The programmer also decided to update

Re: [c-nsp] Sup720 vs RSP720 - Difference?

2009-06-23 Thread Justin Shore
Tom Lanyon wrote: Does anyone know how the newer architecture of the ASR1k ESP compares to a 7200 NPE-G2 in regards to 'all services enabled' performance? If I recall previous discussions on this list, it's fairly easy to overload the CPU on the NPE when you start enabling QoS, NetFlow, WCCP,

Re: [c-nsp] BGP quandry

2009-06-18 Thread Justin Shore
Peter Rathlev wrote: Core #2 doesn't have route-reflector-client configured towards the new router, so it only sends it's own prefixes and prefixes from any RR clients of it's own. That seems to make sense to me too. It does now that I've thought about it. With iBGP not forwarding on updates

[c-nsp] BGP quandry

2009-06-17 Thread Justin Shore
I'm scratching my head on a BGP problem. I have a pair of core routers and a pair of distribution routers in our data center. The DC routers each have a single connection to the core routers (1 connection per pair). Previously the DC routers were configured as route-reflector clients with a

Re: [c-nsp] BGP quandry

2009-06-17 Thread Justin Shore
Justin Shore wrote: Core: ! address-family vpnv4 neighbor ibgp-peer send-community extended neighbor 10.64.0.34 activate exit-address-family I added the last activate for grins but it didn't help. peer-groups are auto-activated which is why it's not explicitly spelled out

Re: [c-nsp] OT: 871W config

2009-05-21 Thread Justin Shore
Thanks for all who replied on and off-list. I see a few things in the configs that were sent to me that I overlooked, like the 'bridge # route ip' commands. That could very well be the problem. All of the configs sent were using only a single default VLAN whereas I've disabled VLAN 1 and am

[c-nsp] OT: 871W config

2009-05-20 Thread Justin Shore
I've got an off-topic plea. I'm trying to configure a simple little 871W as a CE that I need to deploy next week. The wifi on this thing is kicking my ass. 881Ws are completely different than their 871W ancestors. 881Ws have a logically separate internal AP that you basically session into.

Re: [c-nsp] OSPF fast convergence

2009-05-14 Thread Justin Shore
Phil Mayers wrote: Justin Shore wrote: Phil Mayers wrote: Common advice seems to be to make actual link-loss detection fast, in preference to using BFD. That said, I know some people use BFD. Assuming you're using LAN cards, you may want to see if you can make router links as routed rather

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