Re: [c-nsp] SPLIT ETHERNET

2009-01-07 Thread Brett Looney
At any particular time only one ethernet is active at a time and the second provides redundancy. My question is how do I avoid an ip conflict on the switch an Ericsson Media Gateway for Mobile Networks (M-MGw) R5. You don't need to do anything special at all. Just make sure that the two

Re: [c-nsp] IOS reliability

2009-01-07 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
hi, there can be the occasional bug or glitch - mainly (in our experience) due to new types of traffic on the network. our main downtimes are due to power outage (in excess of our UPS 6hr capability) and firmware updates. however, you can help to negate any IOS issue by eg using dual supervisors

[c-nsp] IOS reliability

2009-01-07 Thread Peter Rathlev
Hello, We've been asked to asses some network parameters regarding a SLA for an important business system. We've worked out the usual stuff with MTBF and line reliability and so forth. What we don't have is some kind of statistical material on the stability of the IOS software we're running. The

Re: [c-nsp] IOS reliability

2009-01-07 Thread Peter Rathlev
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 11:18 +, a.l.m.bu...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: there can be the occasional bug or glitch - mainly (in our experience) due to new types of traffic on the network. our main downtimes are due to power outage (in excess of our UPS 6hr capability) and firmware updates.

Re: [c-nsp] IOS reliability

2009-01-07 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:18:06AM +, a.l.m.bu...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: ...and safeharbor is always a good option unless you cant use it (eg new a feature thats not in a safeharbor release!) Don't put too much stock on the Safe Harbor label. We have an internal control to only run Safe Harbor

Re: [c-nsp] site-to-site vpn, ipsec-gre, 2811/HSEC

2009-01-07 Thread Luan Nguyen
From what you said about the process CPU 99/96, the routers aren't doing anything processed intensive. Assuming that was what you meant: CPU utilization for five seconds: 99/96. Getting 35Mbs VPN throughput for the 2811 with AIM-VPN/SSL-2 is best case scenario for that model already. You could

Re: [c-nsp] IOS reliability

2009-01-07 Thread Phil Mayers
Ross Vandegrift wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:18:06AM +, a.l.m.bu...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: ...and safeharbor is always a good option unless you cant use it (eg new a feature thats not in a safeharbor release!) Don't put too much stock on the Safe Harbor label. We have an internal

Re: [c-nsp] IOS reliability

2009-01-07 Thread Laurent Geyer
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Ross Vandegrift r...@kallisti.us wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:18:06AM +, a.l.m.bu...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: Most of the crashes have been related to SNMP. For many MIBs, if you poll an object at the same time it is changed/removed, there's a race

[c-nsp] Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco Global Site Selector Appliances DNS Vulnerability

2009-01-07 Thread Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco Global Site Selector Appliances DNS Vulnerability Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20090107-gss http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20090107-gss.shtml Revision 1.0 For Public Release 2009 January 07 1600 UTC (GMT

[c-nsp] Backing up a 15454 over TL1 - Database Is Busy

2009-01-07 Thread Paul G. Timmins
I have a ONS that I am backing up over TL1. If I run the program I wrote to handle the TL1 manually, it works after a couple of tries. If I connect in directly and type the commands, it runs properly almost every time. Running from cron, I always get an error about the database being busy.

[c-nsp] JUNOS funny or bad poetry

2009-01-07 Thread Masood Ahmad Shah
JUNOS guys promise they would not make it boring! If you don't want to configure something on JUNOS, spend some time with JUNOS haiku. http://weblogs.com.pk/jahil/archive/2009/01/07/juniper-junos-funny-poetry.as px ___ cisco-nsp mailing list

Re: [c-nsp] IOS reliability

2009-01-07 Thread Kevin Loch
Peter Rathlev wrote: We're mostly running C6k with 12.2SXF and 7200 with 12.4 main, and I know it's very complicated to give some figures, but do any of you know of any studies regarding IOS stability in general? Its a lot like the reliability of hard drives. If it runs for three weeks it

[c-nsp] IOS Initial setup function DHCP

2009-01-07 Thread Justin Shore
Can any Cisco people tell me if when a router or switch (router in this case) is at the initial setup prompt after the very first power-on if the router enables DHCP on it's interfaces? I believe I had a brand-new 7201 running a 12.4T attempt a DHCP DISCOVER while it was at the initial setup