Re: [c-nsp] Cisco life cycle strategy

2020-11-21 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 11/20/20 07:06, aar...@gvtc.com wrote: I don't know if I fully understand why a vendor EOL's a piece of equipment or software version. There are probably various reasons why a vendor chooses to do this. I feel as the customer that just because a vendor thinks something is EOL, doesn't mean

Re: [c-nsp] Question about 9410R interface naming

2020-09-10 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/10/20 10:24, Doug McIntyre wrote: The NBASE-T speeds are popular in WiFi AP as the speeds one could get under ideal circumstances started pushing over 1G limits. The inclusion of POE with NBASE-T also helps on the AP use case. ___ cisco-nsp

Re: [c-nsp] Question about 9410R interface naming

2020-09-10 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/10/20 09:16, aar...@gvtc.com wrote: Interesting... I've never heard of/seen 2.5 gig nor 5 g, geez, what is that? 802.3bz Options for speeds beyond 1Gbps but maybe you can't (cheaply easily quickly) rip and replace all your building/house cabling to make the leap to 10GbE. You can do

Re: [c-nsp] Rehosting a perpetual CSR1000V license

2020-07-22 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/21/20 09:54, joe mcguckin wrote: We don’t buy anything that can’t be managed with a serial connection. That means no fancy web based guis. Licensing is in the same category… A piece of equipment has to do something extraordinary before we’d consider purchasing it, if it implements some

Re: [c-nsp] Rehosting a perpetual CSR1000V license

2020-07-21 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/20/20 9:58 PM, Mark Tinka wrote: On 20/Jul/20 19:20, Seth Mattinen wrote: Does Cisco no longer honor previously purchased perpetual CSR1000V licenses now that they're EOS? I had a host die and reinstalling the VM (ESXi) from the OVA results in a new serial number my license file won't

[c-nsp] Rehosting a perpetual CSR1000V license

2020-07-20 Thread Seth Mattinen
Does Cisco no longer honor previously purchased perpetual CSR1000V licenses now that they're EOS? I had a host die and reinstalling the VM (ESXi) from the OVA results in a new serial number my license file won't work on, and trying to use the online license manager to rehost it claims the new

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

2013-11-04 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 11/3/13, 6:31 AM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: That's a shame. I don't understand the need to replace something that worked reliably with something that doesn't solely because it's 'sexy' (no, really, it isn't...) or web-2.0-y. Because you can't ever be done therefore it needs a rewrite

Re: [c-nsp] Router recommendation

2013-06-01 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 6/1/13 6:13 AM, Lukasz Bromirski wrote: On Jun 1, 2013, at 4:35 AM, Matthew Crocker matt...@corp.crocker.com wrote: I'm looking for some advise on a C or J router. Requirements: 200 mbps of throughput (small packets) 4 GigE interfaces (copper or SFP) ip verify unicast reverse-path

Re: [c-nsp] 6500 Supervisor redundancy

2013-05-29 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 5/29/13 11:58 AM, Phil Mayers wrote: On 29/05/2013 17:45, Matthew Huff wrote: I agree with Chuck example of how to do it. That's how I would do it. However, as Chuck says cross your fingers. I've had too many bus stalls and/or sup crashes that I would only do this during a maintenance

[c-nsp] Time warp?

2013-05-02 Thread Seth Mattinen
Am I on crack or are messages being sent from 2010 to the list? ~Seth ___ 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] Next step-up from 7206VXR

2013-02-20 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/20/13 6:13 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, Mack McBride wrote: At 768k you are effectively limiting your IPv6 table to 128k (you can't really go more than that if you expect to use IPv6). I recommend a 640k/192k split. Well, I believe IPv4 will hit 640k before IPv6

Re: [c-nsp] mpls ip creating traffic disturbance(s)

2013-01-16 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/15/13 6:08 PM, Andrew Jones wrote: Do you do any IP address summarisation in your network? Summarisation breaks forwarding in MPLS networks. So ospf summary-address statements will break MPLS? I guess I learned something today to never try. ~Seth

Re: [c-nsp] WS-X6708-10G-3CXL usable with SUP2T?

2013-01-08 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/8/13 9:33 AM, Drew Weaver wrote: Hi, I was reading the spec sheet for the SUP2TXL on cisco's site and it mentions that you can upgrade the x6704 and the x6716 with the DFC4 to make it compatible with the SUP2T but it doesn't say anything about the X6708. Does anyone have any solid

Re: [c-nsp] server room clearances

2012-09-26 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/26/12 8:41 AM, harbor235 wrote: Can anyone tell me the requirements for rack clearances in all directions when building server rooms (too small for datacenter size) I seem to remember 3 feet in any direction? Of course you have equipment loading and unloading so front and back clearances

Re: [c-nsp] server room clearances

2012-09-26 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/26/12 10:17 AM, Gert Doering wrote: Hi, On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:04:57AM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: 3' in back and 4' in front. Those being inch, yard, feet, or what? I guess it's feet... so roughly 1m, right? My apologizes, ' is an alternate abbreviation for foot. http

Re: [c-nsp] 2900 - 2960 config question

2012-09-21 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/21/12 8:56 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2012, Joseph Mays wrote: interface FastEthernet0/22 description Trunk to sw2.dist.win.net duplex full speed 100 switchport access vlan 22 switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,201-224,1002-1005 switchport mode trunk no cdp enable The

[c-nsp] MPLS Tutorial or Guide?

2012-09-17 Thread Seth Mattinen
Does anyone have a good intro or beginner's guide to MPLS that they like? Something succinct and focused that's not a 500 page my-first-Cisco book. The situation I'm thinking is putting someone in front of some routers and switches in a lab setting and saying take these and set them up to do MPLS

Re: [c-nsp] Overlapping Subnet Issue - Gateway IP Resides in Vendor Assigned Public IP Range

2012-07-09 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/9/12 3:13 PM, Spencer Barnes wrote: Hello, I'm trying to move to a new ISP. Our old one provided a T3 and an external IP range. The gateway IP they gave to us to assign to our router interface was on a different subnet than the external IPs they provided so having another

Re: [c-nsp] NTP Servers

2012-06-25 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 6/25/12 7:50 AM, Josh Baird wrote: And guess what the Infoblox appliances run? :) They run with vendor support. =) You can, of course, DIY fancy NTP server solutions: http://www.febo.com/pages/soekris/index.html

Re: [c-nsp] single static ip address for customer(s)

2012-06-22 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 6/22/12 1:03 PM, Ross Halliday wrote: This is an ideal use case for PPPoE. We just return RADIUS attribute Framed-IP-Address to the access concentrator and off they go! As long as a subscriber can get to PPPoE they can get that IP... doesn't even need to be the same service type. IP

Re: [c-nsp] Will the Cisco 2911 push GigE with NAT enabled ?

2012-04-30 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 4/30/12 7:42 AM, Dave wrote: Good morning list, I apologize for what is a long winded explanation followed by what may be a 'common knowledge' type of question, but I did try google first to find this information and either I'm not using the correct search terms or I am truly missing

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 650x sup2 / sup32 configuration - what makes sense?

2011-12-08 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 12/8/11 7:58 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: On Thu, 8 Dec 2011, Gert Doering wrote: The best choice? Don't use 6148-GE-TX modules. They are fundamentally broken (8 ports share one ASIC with a single-GE uplink, one port that's full will block out the other 7 ports, ...). It's even worse if you

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 650x sup2 / sup32 configuration - what makes sense?

2011-12-08 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 12/8/11 9:38 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: On Thu, 8 Dec 2011, Seth Mattinen wrote: And the 6148A supports jumbo frames, if that matters. But yeah, it has 2.6MB per port buffers instead of 1MB shared across 8 ports. It's supposed to have more than that. https://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod

Re: [c-nsp] Faster BGP Failover

2011-10-11 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 10/11/11 8:50 AM, Phil Mayers wrote: On 11/10/11 16:25, Vincent Aniello wrote: What can be done to reduce the amount of time it takes BGP to detect the failure of an Internet connection and start routing traffic through another Internet connection? Can you be a bit more specific about

[c-nsp] Supported number HWIC-2FE cards in 2811

2011-08-03 Thread Seth Mattinen
I recently picked up some HWIC-2FE and 1FE cards. For fun I stuck two HWIC-2FE cards and one HWIC-1FE card into a lab 2811. To my surprise, it started up indicating 7 Ethernet interfaces and properly identified all interfaces in the config. According to Cisco* the maximum supported HWIC-2FE cards

Re: [c-nsp] Re LAN (Branch) to LAN (HO) traffic is not flowing on ISDN (backuplink)

2011-07-26 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/26/11 6:01 AM, Farooq Razzaque wrote: Dear CJ Tanks for your reply yes the ISDN is up. Please find attached Topology observation during testing, show run of branch. You might want to go ahead and change your passwords, too. ~Seth

Re: [c-nsp] Subrate T3 card

2011-07-26 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/26/2011 15:41, Joseph Mays wrote: I have a T3/E3 card in a cisco 3640 that I want to use as a serialT3, but it does not show up as a serial interface, nor is there even a controller line in the config. It only shows up in the hardware infomration as a Subrate T3/E3 port. What does this

Re: [c-nsp] Getting more useful info from traps

2011-06-30 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 6/30/11 7:34 PM, Jason Lixfeld wrote: My NMS has the CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB installed in it, so it nicely tells me that I have low light levels on an interface: CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB::entitySensorMIBNotificationPrefix (1) CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB::entSensorThresholdValue.1045.2 : -80,

Re: [c-nsp] L3 Switch as a BGP Gateway

2011-06-27 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 6/27/2011 11:59, Jason Greenberg wrote: Can someone advise me as to why a 3750 L3 Switch (Metro Model) wouldn't outperform a 7300 series router as a multi-homed BGP gateway? ISRs and Enterprise class routers are still quite a bit more expensive than the L3 Switches, but I'm starting to

Re: [c-nsp] 15.0 train on 7206VXR

2011-06-21 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 6/21/11 4:18 AM, Gert Doering wrote: Hi, On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 08:41:13PM +1000, Reuben Farrelly wrote: It's a platform dependent feature, primarily on the newer ISR G2s and 880s/890s. The original ISR's, 870s, 7200 etc have no such enforcement under either 12.4 or 15.X. ... yet.

Re: [c-nsp] Dot11Radio0 ipv6 command

2011-06-20 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 6/20/11 10:58 AM, Nikolay Shopik wrote: Does anyone know what's up with ipv6 command on Dot11Radio interfaces? I have CISCO1812W running ADVENTERPRISEK9 15.1(4)M and there no such command at all. Searching Cisco bug toolkit doesn't reveal any bugs for me. Software/hardware limitation? I

Re: [c-nsp] Dot11Radio0 ipv6 command

2011-06-20 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 6/20/2011 11:22, Jens Link wrote: Nikolay Shopik sho...@inblock.ru writes: Does anyone know what's up with ipv6 command on Dot11Radio interfaces? I have CISCO1812W running ADVENTERPRISEK9 15.1(4)M and there no such command at all. Searching Cisco bug toolkit doesn't reveal any bugs for

Re: [c-nsp] 3845 aim problem

2011-05-17 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 5/17/11 10:09 PM, hamid tavoli wrote: hello after install aim-ssl3 module in Router Cisco 3845 appear this message and cpu process after enabling the IPSEC over than 90% and Router Hang. pls help me to resolve this message: AIM Type 0x4f5 is not supported by this platform my ios is

Re: [c-nsp] SXJ - The good, the bad, the ugly?

2011-05-03 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 5/3/2011 05:23, krunal shah wrote: From Release notes Release 12.2(33)SXJ and later releases do not support Cisco IOS Software Modularity. With redundant supervisor engines, eFSU upgrade from a Cisco IOS Software Modularity image to a Release 12.2(33)SXJ image might result in a

[c-nsp] IPv6 nd table on the 6500

2011-05-03 Thread Seth Mattinen
Is there a document out there that describes the limits for the neighbor discovery table for IPv6 on the 6500? ~Seth ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at

Re: [c-nsp] Is a 6500 still the best choice?

2011-04-26 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 4/26/11 7:23 AM, Leigh Harrison wrote: Is a 6500 still the best bang for your buck or does the lack of anything over 10G ports hold it back? In the end you're still only looking at 40G per slot. The density won't be there if you're thinking 10G at the same levels as gigabit Ethernet.

Re: [c-nsp] Private VLANs for customer isolation on sup720/12.2(33)

2011-04-25 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 4/25/11 2:28 AM, Phil Mayers wrote: I'll have to test this, but I'm assuming since they're separate SVIs, you could run un-numbered from the shared IPv4 range, but give each SVI its own IPv6. I've done that with IPv6 and can confirm that it works. (But not on a Sup720.) ~Seth

Re: [c-nsp] New Joiner - ME3600X and tools

2011-03-28 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/28/2011 12:36, Asbjorn Hojmark - Lists wrote: IPv6 supported? No. Probably coming in october this year. Last I heard was 'sometime 2012' for IPv6 support -- Totally unacceptable for any device doing L3 in SP environments, IMO -- so I consider it a L2-only box. The only thing any of

Re: [c-nsp] WS-C2950-EI as ISP access, best practices

2011-03-17 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/16/2011 11:13, Neal Rauhauser wrote: I've just inherited a plant with a few dozen WS-C2950-EI doing access duty - an apartment complex. We've had just ridiculous stuff, like certain models of customer NAT device that will helpfully reforward an unknown unicast frame(!), and I've

Re: [c-nsp] Bonded T3 Bandwidth issue

2011-02-24 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/24/2011 10:02, Lawrence wrote: Here is the further information that you have requested. I am using iperf unix client/server to test my speed. I have the same 45M limit if I try a bit torrent. I have a cisco 7200 router that is connected via a mvp copper to fiber converter. The t3s are

Re: [c-nsp] Older Cisco Routers - which one to go with?

2011-02-17 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/17/2011 12:10, Keegan Holley wrote: I wouldn't use the 2651 for much else than maybe a door-stop. The 2801 might not be able to do 20M ethernet depending on what else you are asking it to do. Can you use a switch here? If it's all ethernet than a 3560 or even a 3550/3750 would be fine.

Re: [c-nsp] EARL7 Versions

2011-02-16 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/16/11 8:49 AM, Benjamin Lovell wrote: If you look at the spec sheets you will notice a few differences. MAC table size, default DRAM, routing performance, etc http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps708/product_data_sheet09186a0080159856.html Most of the other

[c-nsp] EARL7 Versions

2011-02-15 Thread Seth Mattinen
Are there any release notes out there for the 6500 that indicates changes/fixes between the B and C versions of the EARL7? I've found a few things, but nothing exceedingly useful beyond C is the newest one. ~Seth ___ cisco-nsp mailing list

Re: [c-nsp] Tool to Calculate Rate Limits

2011-02-07 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/6/11 12:04 PM, Saku Ytti wrote: On (2011-02-06 08:36 -0800), Seth Mattinen wrote: normal burst = configured rate * (1 byte)/(8 bits) * 1.5 seconds extended burst = 2 * normal burst I use same formulae, I'm having hard time imagining situation where you'd want 1.5s worth of buffering

Re: [c-nsp] Tool to Calculate Rate Limits

2011-02-06 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/6/11 6:24 AM, Righa Shake wrote: Hi, Anyone know of a tool that can be used to calculate rate limits on cisco routers. Do you mean CAR rate-limit values? Put this in a spreadsheet or any calculator: normal burst = configured rate * (1 byte)/(8 bits) * 1.5 seconds extended burst = 2 *

Re: [c-nsp] Router/switch recommendations for colocation

2011-01-28 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/27/2011 22:18, Jim Berwick wrote: The idea that was put on the table already is a 3750 stack (two switches, feeding each customer two connections) uplinked to two 3845s to handle layer 3 routing of the customer VLANs and the BGP sessions. My concern with that setup is the 3845 being

Re: [c-nsp] Strange T3 failure on 7206

2011-01-18 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/18/2011 09:52, Jay Hennigan wrote: We got an alarm that a T3 to a customer was down. PE router showed interface up, line protocol down. CE router showed down/down. Provider side goes to an Adtran Opti-mux out OC-12 to Verizon, customer end is a Verizon mux on premise. Called Vz and

Re: [c-nsp] Protecting Wireless Network from Jammers

2011-01-14 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/13/11 10:00 PM, Christopher J. Wargaski wrote: Hey Felix-- I work in the 802.11 wireless arena and am also an amateur radio operator. Aside from finding the offending station, there is really nothing that can be done to prevent RF signal jamming. Sure there is: use a wire. ;)

[c-nsp] tools.cisco.com not working?

2011-01-14 Thread Seth Mattinen
I've been trying to load the power calculator tool and all I'm getting is a connection reset while page is loading. Is anyone else having problems with the website? ~Seth ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net

Re: [c-nsp] tools.cisco.com not working?

2011-01-14 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/14/2011 12:34, Ramcharan, Vijay A wrote: This is working fine for me: http://tools.cisco.com/cpc/DS.cpc It seems only broken in Firefox for me; I tried IE 8 and Safari (both on Windows) and they worked fine. Ugh, it worked fine earlier this week. ~Seth

Re: [c-nsp] small (tiny?) route reflector for MPLS L3VPN network

2011-01-09 Thread Seth Mattinen
I think a 2900 (or even a 1900) with advanced IP services will more than suffice for this. Any comments? It would work fine (I currently use ISRs in this role), although I have been seriously considering using MikroTik/Quagga in one of those dual-core 1U chassis with forward facing ports as a

Re: [c-nsp] terminal server suggestions?

2011-01-03 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/2/2011 21:37, Rogelio wrote: I recently bought a grip of Cisco routers (2600s, 3600s) and Cisco switches (3560s) for a few hundred dollars, and now I'm putting together a setup that will let me do the INE CCIE lab exercises. I was wondering if anyone had a good suggestion for extremely

Re: [c-nsp] Console server

2011-01-01 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/1/11 10:01 PM, Jay Nakamura wrote: I remember using something faster than 2500 with SSH and it was painfully slow. So, I can't imagine how slow it will be with a 2500. And with the whole, Cisco is going to prevent you from downloading software not covered by your contract thing, I don't

Re: [c-nsp] Console server

2011-01-01 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/1/11 10:56 PM, Jay Nakamura wrote: Can you still get smartnets for 2511? I didn't even consider that may be possible. I doubt it, last date of support was in 2009*. Although I am curious what will happen to IOS access for stuff that's considered obsolete, no support. ~Seth *

Re: [c-nsp] bbq 2970

2010-12-26 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 12/26/10 4:30 PM, Mike wrote: We had a few other equipments 'locked up'. The 2970 we pulled apart and observed a capacitor with tell-tell crust on the top of it, and some other components that look like they have been heating up lately (discolored). Everything else seems fine. We're going

Re: [c-nsp] Backup Interface IPv6 - why is Cisco sleeping?

2010-12-14 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 12/14/10 6:54 AM, Garry wrote: rant Having just installed a set of nice ASR1k boxes with rather new IOS, I noticed Cisco has still (after many years and many IOS releases) not managed to get Backup Interfaces IPv6 to work with each other ... or I'm missing something ... but while IPv4

Re: [c-nsp] 2951 memory upgrade to 2GB/Boot loader

2010-12-14 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 12/14/10 10:09 AM, Jay Nakamura wrote: Just a side note so I can vent, just talked to TAC and the lady suggested to boot with the old RAM and swap it while the router was powered on I hope you didn't pay too much on the smartnet for that suggestion. The only time I've seen the

Re: [c-nsp] 3550 layer 3 switch replacement for v6

2010-12-09 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 12/9/2010 12:54, Jon Lewis wrote: I need to start looking at replacing 3550-48 switches with something comparable that supports ipv6. I tried using feature navigator, but the info it was giving me was so suspect I won't even bother repeating it. My impression from past looks into this

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco ASR 9K Vs 7600

2010-12-01 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 12/1/2010 14:12, Dobbins, Roland wrote: there should be lots of other reasons why ASR9K would be more appropriate for SP core network... but I just can not gather enough arguments to initiate an upgrade project so far. ASR9K gives good NetFlow, 7600 doesn't. ASR9K doesn't have

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco ASR 9K Vs 7600

2010-12-01 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 12/1/2010 14:55, Dobbins, Roland wrote: On Dec 2, 2010, at 5:48 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: Basically, ASR is a next generation evolution that fixes long-standing things like this. I understand why that would appear to be the case, but the reality is that ASR9K and 7600 have

Re: [c-nsp] Untagged native VLAN...

2010-11-24 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 11/24/10 1:33 AM, Elmar K. Bins wrote: Re Nick, n...@foobar.org (Nick Hilliard) wrote: Will try that - this sounds like the easiest way, although I dislike special constructs normally. But - this would allow me to keep the portfast setting which definitely helps when dealing with

Re: [c-nsp] Untagged native VLAN...

2010-11-24 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 11/24/10 9:04 AM, David Rothera wrote: Last time I checked the CDP neighbours on one of our access switches with Polycoms attached they showed up as CDP neighbours, didn't look into it though Yep, they support both CDP and LLDP. Earlier versions of the firmware only support CDP

Re: [c-nsp] Legitimate Access to IOS for Legacy/EOL devices

2010-11-19 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 11/19/2010 14:07, Brian Raaen wrote: I was wondering if there was any legitimate way to get access to IOS for legacy devices. I have a 2611, 3725 and pair of 2950's in my home lab that I would like to test some things on. Thanks Right now any valid service contract will get you access

Re: [c-nsp] No Service Password Recovery

2010-11-17 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 11/17/2010 14:10, Skeeve Stevens wrote: Hey all, I've been googling and ciscocom searching and have found nothing so far. I was to 'no service password-recovery' on a old Catalyst 2924. Does anyone know of a way? It is in a delicate environment and it doesn't support 'secret', so

Re: [c-nsp] Software Download Enhancements

2010-11-15 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 11/15/2010 11:46, Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Pavel Skovajsa wrote: I have just received notification below. [...] To improve your experience with Cisco and protect your investment in Cisco Products, we’re pleased to announce the improvement of Software download

Re: [c-nsp] Question about manually configuring 1000/Full on Cisco switches

2010-10-31 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 10/31/10 5:08 PM, John Neiberger wrote: Anyway, can you settle this? Let's take a Cisco 4948 as an example. Does manually configuring 1000/Full on an interface really do much? If so, what exactly does it do? Does it behave in a non-standard way by disabling autonegotiation? Disabling

Re: [c-nsp] 2821 NAT Limitations

2010-10-13 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 10/13/2010 14:46, Lee Riemer wrote: The ASA platform is designed for this, whereas I don't see NAT as being the primary function of a 2811. I've seen 2800 series routers crash and burn on far smaller networks than what the OP is looking at. I too would recommend a platform specifically

Re: [c-nsp] IPv6 p2p transit link addressing

2010-10-03 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 10/3/2010 16:20, cisco...@secureobscure.com wrote: Any definitive answers would be greatly appreciated. I would prefer not to burn up all of my routable address space with p2p /64's however. There is no definitive answer at this point. I use /112's for link nets. ~Seth

Re: [c-nsp] Service agreement warning for EOL hardware

2010-10-01 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/30/10 5:07 PM, Łukasz Bromirski wrote: Bear in mind that before the IOS license activation, there was no way to tie for 100% your hardware to specific set of licenses/ feature sets you could download, and no way to check if the device is still alive. So, the database that is used to

[c-nsp] Service agreement warning for EOL hardware

2010-09-30 Thread Seth Mattinen
So I went to download the latest image for an ancient router and received this nifty error message: Service Agreement Validation Warning: Please read before downloading software As part of an ongoing effort to provide you with exceptional service and support, Cisco is making enhancements to its

Re: [c-nsp] Service agreement warning for EOL hardware

2010-09-30 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/30/2010 15:53, Łukasz Bromirski wrote: On 2010-10-01 00:28, Seth Mattinen wrote: So I went to download the latest image for an ancient router and received this nifty error message: Seeing as how the 3640 went EOS in 2002 and EOL in 2007, it can't have a service contract or be eligible

Re: [c-nsp] Service agreement warning for EOL hardware

2010-09-30 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/30/2010 16:42, Łukasz Bromirski wrote: On 2010-10-01 01:15, Seth Mattinen wrote: There's a End of new service attachment - November 2006. So, a customer activating a 5-year agreement with Cisco on November 2006 could have a support to November 2011. Usually such agrements are made

Re: [c-nsp] Found a device, please recommend.

2010-09-29 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/29/2010 17:52, Sheremet Roman wrote: Hi, I want order Cisco device (Layer 3) with 8 SFP ports, i want RUN BGP (4-5 fullview) in it.. so i think 512 - 1024 Mb RAM needed. Device Should be 1U. Please recommend which device will be optimal for this request? The obvious choice would

Re: [c-nsp] Found a device, please recommend.

2010-09-29 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/29/10 6:47 PM, Benjamin Lovell wrote: I missed the 1 RU part. I can't think of a platform that will do 8SFPs in 1RU. The most powerful 1U router I can think of is the 7201. ~Seth ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net

[c-nsp] Nexus evolution

2010-09-27 Thread Seth Mattinen
About a year ago there were some large-ish threads on the Nexus and a couple people that had them in production had commented that there were bugs that made them feel like test subjects, plus a various assortment of unexpected limitations. How much has this changed over the last year? I do notice

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 4900M BGP Support

2010-09-27 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/27/2010 14:55, Jimmy Changa wrote: Thanks for the info. I'm looking for a Cisco solution that takes up the least amount of rack space and can handle full table. Any suggestions? I'll add another recommendation: 7201. It is basically a one-slot 7200VXR NPE-2G with 4 gig-e ports in a 1U

Re: [c-nsp] DS3 Nubie

2010-09-26 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/26/10 8:26 AM, Andy Dills wrote: On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Christopher J. Wargaski wrote: Hey Jeff-- This year I installed a video WAN comprised of several 3845 routers with the NM-1T3/E3 for point to point DS3s (that is all, nothing else). The 3845 routers list at $13,000 and the

Re: [c-nsp] DS3 Nubie

2010-09-24 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/24/2010 12:48, Jeff Wojciechowski wrote: Definitely planning on having the cable guys extend our dmarc with pre-made cables. How do you know if the DS3 signal is too hot? You'll see errors on your interface counters. However, I have never seen this personally with the NM-1T3/E3

Re: [c-nsp] DS3 Length over RG-6 or RG-59

2010-09-23 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/22/10 10:31 PM, Jon Simola wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Peder pe...@networkoblivion.com wrote: Does anybody have a good rule of thumb as to what type of coax to use for DS3 over various distances? I know it has to be 75ohm, but have read it can be RG-59 or RG-6. I've only

Re: [c-nsp] Performance Difference NM-16ESW-1GIG and NME-16ES-1GIG

2010-09-23 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/23/10 2:32 AM, Jeffrey Denton wrote: Looking at getting a couple of 3945s. NM-16ESW-1GIG is being recommended by one of my colleagues. He prefers the easy of use, not having to session in to the module. It's been pointed out that the router IOS will have to devote some of it's time to

Re: [c-nsp] Performance Difference NM-16ESW-1GIG and NME-16ES-1GIG

2010-09-23 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/23/10 9:05 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: Pretend it's like having a 2690 series switch in module form; you are saving space and combining management into a single device. Whoops, I meant 2960. It's like an L2 only switch. ~Seth ___ cisco-nsp

Re: [c-nsp] DS3 Length over RG-6 or RG-59

2010-09-23 Thread Seth Mattinen
I was mistaken; the Cisco cable I have is Belden 9555 RG-59/U. ~Seth - Reply message - From: Seth Mattinen se...@rollernet.us Date: Thu, Sep 23, 2010 08:34 Subject: [c-nsp] DS3 Length over RG-6 or RG-59 To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net On 9/22/10 10:31 PM, Jon Simola wrote: On Wed, Sep 22

[c-nsp] QoS on the 2960

2010-09-22 Thread Seth Mattinen
I'm trying to figure out QoS on a 2960 - something I've read about a lot but never had to do before. I'm very simply attempting to limit a customer to speed X, 8M for example. So far I have this: ! mls qos srr-queue input bandwidth 100 1 mls qos srr-queue input buffers 100 0 mls qos srr-queue

Re: [c-nsp] Multihoming

2010-09-15 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/15/10 2:26 AM, Walter Keen wrote: Not many options for you I'm afraid. Some people filter out routes smaller than a /24. Even if you had a /24 from ISP1, you would then have to get their permission to have ISP2 advertise it. Most aren't willing to do this. Is a micro (/24)

Re: [c-nsp] Feedback on upcoming removal of FTP access to secured software

2010-09-15 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/15/2010 13:32, Asbjorn Hojmark - Lists wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:13:35 +0100, you wrote: It's also looks like Cisco may be vaguely moving in the direction of locking CCO accounts down to be able to access only software downloads for which there are active smartnet contracts.

Re: [c-nsp] Feedback on upcoming removal of FTP access to secured software

2010-09-14 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/14/10 6:00 AM, Jason Gurtz wrote: [Comments in-line] From: ftp_download_feedback(mailer list) [mailto:ftp_download_feedb...@cisco.com] Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 20:47 Subject: Important Message from Cisco Technical Support Manager, Software Downloads Cisco has recently

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

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

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

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

Re: [c-nsp] 6500/7600

2010-08-31 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 8/31/10 1:27 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote: What's the difference between the C6500 and the 7600? Just software? Different business units within Cisco. See archives for plenty more. ~Seth ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net

Re: [c-nsp] 6500/7600

2010-08-31 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 8/31/2010 14:44, Mark Tinka wrote: On Wednesday, September 01, 2010 04:27:14 am Sridhar Ayengar wrote: What's the difference between the C6500 and the 7600? Just software? Oh no, you're going to wake Gert :-). I always find Gert's input quite educational. ;) ~Seth

Re: [c-nsp] Recommendation request for gateway router specs

2010-08-30 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 8/30/2010 12:30, Nick Voth wrote: I'm most familiar with the 7206 VXR series, but that seems like over kill for this solution. Anyone have any general recommendations or guidance you'd be willing to share? The 7206 would be appropriate if you need to move a gigabit of traffic. ~Seth

Re: [c-nsp] Why hard-setting speed and duplex on Fast Ethernet is bad

2010-08-20 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 8/20/10 7:44 AM, Andrew Miehs wrote: I guess the differing opionions have to do with age and brand of hardware. I found Auto the best running HP Procurve switches with and Supermicro and HP Proliant DL360 G5 servers (nothing older than 2004). I had no end of problems with old PA Risc

Re: [c-nsp] full duplex mismatch speed - dynamips

2010-08-19 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 8/19/2010 12:26, Gert Doering wrote: Hi, On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:52:48AM -0600, John Neiberger wrote: Adam, you are my new best friend. I've been saying this for the past few years and people still think I'm crazy. I flat out refuse to manually configure speed and duplex for someone

Re: [c-nsp] GigE Throughput on 3825

2010-07-29 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/29/2010 15:07, Paul Stewart wrote: We have several in production but have never pushed them to their limits. One that comes to mind is a 3825 with max memory/max flash - it's going DHCP services to 1200 students in a university residence, handing off a few meg of voice traffic to those

Re: [c-nsp] Anyone else seeing downloads not working

2010-07-26 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/26/2010 13:18, Jason Gurtz wrote: No problems here from 93.160.0.0/13. (I hope I didn't jinx it this way. :-) I was able to get it working by using Internet Explorer. Strange that a browser could affect the Java applet. Perhaps a cookie issue in the Chrome profile. As part of the

Re: [c-nsp] pop site battery backup recommendations

2010-07-23 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/22/10 10:11 PM, Joe Maimon wrote: Mike wrote: Howdy, This isn't exactly cisco-centric, but it's certainly related operationally. I operate a county wide isp network and I have about 15 different pops. I equip each with APC700/1400's and with XR battery packs, with the goal being

Re: [c-nsp] pop site battery backup recommendations

2010-07-22 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/22/2010 08:45, Mike wrote: a) went berserk and flooded the network with garbage b) issued spurious turn off ups commands to the ups c) began automated self test cycles that shut off the ups (even when self-test is disabled!) I further have experienced UPSs that for

Re: [c-nsp] 3560G-E's as replacement for 3550-EMIs for dist switches?

2010-07-14 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/14/10 7:41 AM, TCIS List Acct wrote: We are using a boatload of aging 3550-EMI switches (-48s and -12Ts mostly) as our distribution layer in our Co-lo facilities. The switches talk a little bit of OSPF and iBGP back to the core (uplinked over the 2 Gig-E ports). All customers have their

Re: [c-nsp] 7204XVR Edge Router Issues

2010-07-03 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/3/10 9:52 AM, Chris Gotstein wrote: We are a small ISP, using a 7204VXR as our gateway router to our 2 upstream providers. We have a full DS3 coming from one provider and a 75Mbs fiber connection from another provider. We having issues with lagging when trying to run speedtests and

Re: [c-nsp] smaller PI

2010-07-01 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/1/10 12:30 AM, Jan Gregor wrote: Hi, On 06/30/2010 02:39 PM, Jan Gregor wrote: Hi, one of our customers requested PI adresses from RIPE (for whatever reason) and got back /26. Opinions? Best regards, Jan Will anybody accept a prefix smaller than a /24 (we won't for one ;-) ?

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