[c-nsp] cisco router 2800/3800 serie

2009-08-26 Thread Arne Larsen / Region Nordjylland
Hi all. Can someone give me a hint what to use. We have 40 locations with different users and these location is to be migrated to fiber 20Mb from adsl. We want to run MPLS on these routers, because there is administration guest-network etc. Which router would be efficient for this, I have been

Re: [c-nsp] RPS 675 question

2009-08-26 Thread Seth Mattinen
Justin Shore wrote: andr...@one.net wrote: I'm getting ready to install some RPS 675's in order to dual cord some 3750's and ran across this in the manual: Do not use different power sources to power up the RPS and the connected device. If you connect to separate AC power sources, reset

Re: [c-nsp] cisco router 2800/3800 serie

2009-08-26 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Arne Larsen / Region Nordjylland wrote: Which router would be efficient for this, I have been looking on the 2800 3800 series, but I can't seem to find a doc. the describe what the throughputs is on these boxes.

Re: [c-nsp] cisco router 2800/3800 serie

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Rathlev
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 09:48 +0200, Arne Larsen wrote: Can someone give me a hint what to use. We have 40 locations with different users and these location is to be migrated to fiber 20Mb from adsl. We want to run MPLS on these routers, because there is administration guest-network etc. Which

Re: [c-nsp] cisco router 2800/3800 serie

2009-08-26 Thread Per Carlson
Hi Arne. We have 40 locations with different users and these location is to be migrated to fiber 20Mb from adsl. How are those fiber accesses going to be delivered, i.e. do you need devices with optical interfaces? We want to run MPLS on these routers, because there is administration

[c-nsp] Have I Gone Mad? (OSPF NSSA)

2009-08-26 Thread Marko Milivojevic
Hello, My understanding of OSPF is being challenged by recent upgrade of some of our 7600's (running SRD2a now). Pairs of 7600's are ABR's to totally stubby NSSA areas (area X nssa no-summary default-information originate). This is supposed to prevent all external and summary routes reaching

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 08:58:32PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: This company was constantly having problems with what i called broadcast attacks. The network graphs would show traffic on all interfaces spike and normally the 100mbit uplink between the switches would saturate and the

[c-nsp] Application Protocol Performance in low latency envrionments

2009-08-26 Thread Ash Net
Hi Folks, Sorry about the OT here, I'm looking to get some feedback regarding some of the most common application protocols (CIFS, NFSv3,SQL net, Snapmirror, ndmcopy) used in most Enterprise envrionments and their behavior in a sub msec campus latency environments vs ~3 msec latency over 10G

Re: [c-nsp] IPv6 experience on DSBU switches

2009-08-26 Thread Alexander Clouter
Hi, Janet Plato pl...@wisc.edu wrote: I'm finding IPv6 support lacking a few glaring things on 12.2(50)SE2. Things like the inability to enter an IPv6 address as a target for a radius server, or a hostname with only a Quad A record as well. When I ask Cisco, they view these things as

Re: [c-nsp] Application Protocol Performance in low latency envrionments

2009-08-26 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Ash Net wrote: The reason for performance degradation solely seems to be latency related since there's tons of b/w available in the lab setup and over 10G lanphy paths. Do people still deploy QOS for better traffic management on the lanphy interfaces even with no

Re: [c-nsp] IPv6 experience on DSBU switches

2009-08-26 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:54:32AM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote: The sad part is that no one can get the in production experience of IPv6 because the vendors do not support it. You generally have to make do with what you can and use Linux as 'duct-tape' for the bits that are

Re: [c-nsp] Have I Gone Mad? (OSPF NSSA)

2009-08-26 Thread Ivan Pepelnjak
ABR's appear to be injecting both the type 3 and type 7. AHave I gone mad, or I need to hit back the books? It depends :) Actually you've asked for it. The no-summary part of NSSA statement generates type-3 default and the default-information originate generates type-7 default. See the

[c-nsp] vss switch 2 reloading every 15 minutes

2009-08-26 Thread C and C Dominte
Hi, I recently configured two catalyst 6509 switches into a VSS cluster. After I experimented issues with unknown unicast, the secondary chassis reloaded itself with no apparent reason, . The cluster is configured with two VSL 10G links, one link is on the supervisor, and the secondary one

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Ivan Pepelnjak
Generally, putting each customer into a dedicated layer 3 network segment is a good idea - because half of the attacks that a hacked server belonging to customer 1 might do to a server from customer 2 (ARP spoofing, IP address spoofing [- blaim goes to customer 2], HSRP attacks to the

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 02:55:22PM +0200, Ivan Pepelnjak wrote: Generally, putting each customer into a dedicated layer 3 network segment is a good idea - because half of the attacks that a hacked server belonging to customer 1 might do to a server from customer 2 (ARP spoofing, IP

Re: [c-nsp] IPv6 experience on DSBU switches

2009-08-26 Thread Daniel Verlouw
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 14:09 +0200, Gert Doering wrote: OTOH - Cisco has working prototypes of SeND, while no other (!) operating system out there supports it. OT: JUNOS implements SEND as well, from 9.3 onwards. I've not seen decent support in any host OS so far. --Daniel.

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Ivan Pepelnjak wrote: The only disadvantage of this approach is that you waste up to 75% of the address space (assuming you have one server per customer). If you want to do some really weird things you could configure mismatched subnet masks on servers and routers, use

Re: [c-nsp] Application Protocol Performance in low latency envrionments

2009-08-26 Thread Tim Durack
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.sewrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Ash Net wrote: The reason for performance degradation solely seems to be latency related since there's tons of b/w available in the lab setup and over 10G lanphy paths. Do people still deploy QOS

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Gert Doering wrote: So how do you prevent customer A from sending out packets with an IP address belonging to customer B? (For whatever reason). Antispoofing ACL on vlan interface? Or if you have an access layer, you can do your L2.5 access lists there on ingress. --

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 03:52:55PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Gert Doering wrote: So how do you prevent customer A from sending out packets with an IP address belonging to customer B? (For whatever reason). Antispoofing ACL on vlan interface? Won't help

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Randy McAnally
In a dedicated server hosting environment, each customer should have their own VLAN and subnet. True, it may waste a few IPs, but keep in mind when the customer expands to two or more servers, they can utilize additional IPs from their existing VLAN even when the servers are not physically close

Re: [c-nsp] IPv6 experience on DSBU switches

2009-08-26 Thread Alan Buxey
Hi, attended a wonderful talk about IPv6 at Cisco networkers earlier this year. some good stuff being shownand then they mentioned that all these security features etc are only in lab and wont be on our IOS for some time :-( regarding IPv6 support on hardware - at this point in time I've

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Gert Doering wrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 03:52:55PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Gert Doering wrote: So how do you prevent customer A from sending out packets with an IP address belonging to customer B? (For whatever reason).

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 03:32:13PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: If you do it like that with local-proxy-arp then you can have multiple vlans per IP subnet, so you get L2 isolation between customers but you do not waste any IP addresses. So how do you prevent customer A from sending

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:11:28PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 03:52:55PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Gert Doering wrote: So how do you prevent customer A from sending out packets with an IP address belonging to customer B? (For

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Ivan Pepelnjak
RPF check? -Original Message- From: Mikael Abrahamsson [mailto:swm...@swm.pp.se] Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 3:53 PM To: Gert Doering Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Large networks On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Gert Doering wrote: So how do you prevent

Re: [c-nsp] IPv6 experience on DSBU switches

2009-08-26 Thread Alexander Clouter
Hi, * Gert Doering g...@greenie.muc.de [2009-08-26 14:09:25+0200]: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:54:32AM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote: The sad part is that no one can get the in production experience of IPv6 because the vendors do not support it. You generally have to make do with what

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Gert Doering wrote: Ah, pvlans and community vlan stuff. OK, that would work, but still - lots of effort that is just automatic otherwise. Well, I think that it's reckless to spend 4 globally routable IP addresses instead of 1 per customer, when all you do is save a few

Re: [c-nsp] cisco router 2800/3800 serie

2009-08-26 Thread Ryan West
Peter, You might consider the 3560 L3 switch instead; it lacks features but delivers plenty of raw forwarding performance in a relatively cheap package. It supports VRF-Lite with the services image and can do prioritising QoS fine. Can you elaborate a little more on the QoS portion. It

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:30:24PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Gert Doering wrote: Ah, pvlans and community vlan stuff. OK, that would work, but still - lots of effort that is just automatic otherwise. Well, I think that it's reckless to spend 4 globally

[c-nsp] Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco Unified Communications Manager Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

2009-08-26 Thread Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco Unified Communications Manager Denial of Service Vulnerabilities Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20090826-cucm Revision 1.0 For Public Release 2009 August 26 1600 UTC (GMT

Re: [c-nsp] Application Protocol Performance in low latency envrionments

2009-08-26 Thread Ash Net
Thanks Guys. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. On 8/26/09, Tim Durack tdur...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.sewrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Ash Net wrote: The reason for performance degradation solely seems to be latency related

[c-nsp] RES: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Leonardo Gama Souza
In this case I think you could configure Private VLANs, isolating each customer in the same l3 network segment. -Mensagem original- De: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] Em nome de Gert Doering Enviada em: quarta-feira, 26 de agosto de 2009

Re: [c-nsp] RES: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Matthias Müller
Hi, Leonardo Gama Souza schrieb: In this case I think you could configure Private VLANs, isolating each customer in the same l3 network segment. Private VLANs won't help you with ip-spoofing in the same subnet and hsrp-attacks and not against arp attacks (but these can be prevented using

Re: [c-nsp] Have I Gone Mad? (OSPF NSSA)

2009-08-26 Thread Ivan Pepelnjak
Actually... It did hurt somewhat :-/. Previous IOS that we were running (7600 SXx and SRBx) were injecting type 7. However, that behaviour changed with SRD2 and it injects both. Naturally, type 3 wins. I wrote the article more than a year ago and the 12.4T behavior at that time was the

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Ivan Pepelnjak
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:21:52PM +0200, Ivan Pepelnjak wrote: RPF check? won't help for customer A is 10.0.0.1, customer B is 10.0.0.2, your router interface is 10.0.0.254/24. This is debatable as the host routes point to various L3 interfaces ... I guess it's time to start another

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Ivan Pepelnjak
Well, I think that it's reckless to spend 4 globally routable IP addresses instead of 1 per customer, when all you do is save a few minutes of time per installation. As I said: our customers usually use many more IP addresses than just one. And, of course, you're welcome to join us

[c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Scott Granados
I'm interested in general, how much IPV6 is actually out there? I'm very unfamiliar but at my present gig and my last few I never ran in to this once. Is it actually being used in production? Thank you Scott - Original Message - From: Ivan Pepelnjak i...@ioshints.info To: 'Gert

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 07:32:15PM +0200, Ivan Pepelnjak wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:21:52PM +0200, Ivan Pepelnjak wrote: RPF check? won't help for customer A is 10.0.0.1, customer B is 10.0.0.2, your router interface is 10.0.0.254/24. This is debatable as the host

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 07:33:40PM +0200, Ivan Pepelnjak wrote: Well, I think that it's reckless to spend 4 globally routable IP addresses instead of 1 per customer, when all you do is save a few minutes of time per installation. As I said: our customers usually use many more

Re: [c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:58:23AM -0700, Scott Granados wrote: I'm interested in general, how much IPV6 is actually out there? I'm very unfamiliar but at my present gig and my last few I never ran in to this once. Is it actually being used in production? It really depends on what you

Re: [c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Ivan Pepelnjak
There will be Lots Of Fun when IPv4 runs out, and whole new markets of DSL customers (as in India, China, Arabia...) will not be able to access web sites from vendors that have no IPv6 reachability. Goodby, sales to that region... Not gonna happen. Unfortunately there's so much stuff on the

Re: [c-nsp] cisco router 2800/3800 serie

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Rathlev
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 11:06 -0400, Ryan West wrote: Can you elaborate a little more on the QoS portion. It seems that the 3560 would be fine policing some traffic, but gets cryptic when you want to start shaping or provide bandwidth allocations. Am I missing some obvious MQC support? IMHO

Re: [c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:19:20PM +0200, Ivan Pepelnjak wrote: There will be Lots Of Fun when IPv4 runs out, and whole new markets of DSL customers (as in India, China, Arabia...) will not be able to access web sites from vendors that have no IPv6 reachability. Goodby, sales to

Re: [c-nsp] cisco router 2800/3800 serie

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Rathlev
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 13:00 -0500, Justin Shore wrote: I'm suspect that the interface MTU of the 1841 may not go above 1500. It's even worse, it doesn't seem to support MTU != 1500 at all on the built in FE interfaces. Router(config-if)#do sh ip int bri Interface IP-Address

Re: [c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Paul G. Timmins
We've got paying customers who came to us specifically because we support it. Our last decision for IP transport had IPv6 as a requirement. YMMV. -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent:

Re: [c-nsp] cisco router 2800/3800 serie

2009-08-26 Thread Erik Soosalu
With some things neutered... Cisco IOS Software, 1841 Software (C1841-SPSERVICESK9-M), Version 12.4(22)T1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc5) Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport rt-02#sh ip int brief Interface IP-Address OK? Method Status Protocol FastEthernet0/1

Re: [c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Alexander Clouter
Hi, Scott Granados gsgrana...@comcast.net wrote: I'm interested in general, how much IPV6 is actually out there? I'm very unfamiliar but at my present gig and my last few I never ran in to this once. Is it actually being used in production? Ironically I would suggest Google...which

Re: [c-nsp] cisco router 2800/3800 serie

2009-08-26 Thread Flint, Chris
12.4(20)T or newer should support the MTU change. You still get the error message, but it does work. Flint - Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:40:37 +0200 From: Peter Rathlev pe...@rathlev.dk To: Justin Shore jus...@justinshore.com Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net

Re: [c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread sthaug
With IPv6 you can get rid of DHCP, forget VPN's, forget DDNS, forget HSRP, and most importantly you no longer need NATs that understand every protocol that runs through it and so remove a possible single point of failure. Some of us would disagree rather strongly with one or more of those

Re: [c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread sthaug
We've got paying customers who came to us specifically because we support it. Our last decision for IP transport had IPv6 as a requirement. YMMV. In a slightly different vein, we had IPv6 as a soft requirement last time we renewed our IP transit agreements. We were able to get IPv6 from all

[c-nsp] RES: IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Leonardo Gama Souza
Why can we forget about HSRP with IPv6? With IPv6 you can get rid of DHCP, forget VPN's, forget DDNS, forget HSRP, and most importantly you no longer need NATs that understand every protocol that runs through it and so remove a possible single point of failure.

[c-nsp] RES: RES: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Leonardo Gama Souza
You are right. To be protected against IP spoofing you would need a VACL configured as well. Private VLANs won't help you with ip-spoofing in the same subnet and hsrp-attacks and not against arp attacks (but these can be prevented using static arp-entries on the l3-device). Matthias

Re: [c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Alan Buxey
Hi, There will be Lots Of Fun when IPv4 runs out, and whole new markets of DSL customers (as in India, China, Arabia...) will not be able to access web sites from vendors that have no IPv6 reachability. Goodby, sales to that region... 6to4 webproxy - i got one... had to for when i ran a

[c-nsp] Overlapping DHCP pools w/ VRF lite on 12.2(33)SXI?

2009-08-26 Thread Steve Shaw
Folks, Anyone have any luck running overlapping DHCP pools with VRF-lite on 12 .2(33)SXI? It looks like a vrf sub-command under DHCP pool configuration mode was added in SRC code but I can't confirm or deny support for the SXI train. Thanks, Steve ___

Re: [c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Daniel Verlouw
On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:18 PM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: With IPv6 you can get rid of DHCP, forget VPN's, forget DDNS, forget HSRP, and most importantly you no longer need NATs that understand every protocol that runs through it and so remove a possible single point of failure. Some of us

Re: [c-nsp] RES: IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Mohacsi Janos
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Leonardo Gama Souza wrote: Why can we forget about HSRP with IPv6? With IPv6 you can get rid of DHCP, forget VPN's, forget DDNS, forget HSRP, and most importantly you no longer need NATs that understand every protocol that runs through it and so remove a possible

Re: [c-nsp] cisco router 2800/3800 serie

2009-08-26 Thread Tony
--- On Thu, 27/8/09, Justin Shore jus...@justinshore.com wrote: Be careful with the 1841.  Though all the MPLS commands are technically there, MPLS is not a supported feature on the 1841.  Ie, a code update could remove the commands altogether and there would be nothing you could do about

Re: [c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Alexander Clouter
sth...@nethelp.no wrote: With IPv6 you can get rid of DHCP, forget VPN's, forget DDNS, forget HSRP, and most importantly you no longer need NATs that understand every protocol that runs through it and so remove a possible single point of failure. Some of us would disagree rather

Re: [c-nsp] RES: IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Alexander Clouter
Hi, Leonardo Gama Souza leonardo.so...@nec.com.br wrote: Why can we forget about HSRP with IPv6? Depending on how 'high' the 'H' is in your HSRP, you can have multiple routers on the same subnet to provision your default gateway to the world, the clients *should* just use the responsive one

Re: [c-nsp] RES: IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Scott Granados
Ok it's official, I'm asking for the term Deputy to be included in my next title! That's just cool! - Original Message - From: Mohacsi Janos moha...@niif.hu To: Leonardo Gama Souza leonardo.so...@nec.com.br Cc: Alexander Clouter a...@digriz.org.uk; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Sent:

[c-nsp] MST and Uplinkfast

2009-08-26 Thread Andy Saykao
Hi All, Can anybody confirm if uplinkfast is enabled when you run MST? http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_configura tion_example09186a00807b075f.shtml The spanning tree uplinkfast and backbonefast features are PVST+ features, and it is disabled when you enable MST

Re: [c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:17:53PM +0200, Daniel Verlouw wrote: seconded. And currently there's no way we're gonna live without HSRP/ VRRPv6. Waiting for RA/NUD to timeout is just way too slow (besides, several OSs behave quirky with multiple default gateways presents). HSRP with IPv6

Re: [c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Alexander Clouter
Hi, Daniel Verlouw dan...@bit.nl wrote: On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:18 PM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: [snipped] No VPNs? What about host-to-host IPSec VPNs (e.g MS DirectAccess)? I should have said VPN concentrator. Mobile IPv6 and finally the end-to-end-ness of IPv6 lets use use IPsec

Re: [c-nsp] Overlapping DHCP pools w/ VRF lite on 12.2(33)SXI?

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Rathlev
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 16:06 -0400, Steve Shaw wrote: Anyone have any luck running overlapping DHCP pools with VRF-lite on 12.2(33)SXI? It looks like a vrf sub-command under DHCP pool configuration mode was added in SRC code but I can't confirm or deny support for the SXI train. I don't know

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:11:48PM +0200, Ivan Pepelnjak wrote: Some of us still have to live with reality where IPv6 deployment is negligible :) You have it in your hands to change that. You might. I don't. The only thing I can do is spread the gospel ... But you know what

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread David Hughes
On 26/08/2009, at 11:58 PM, Gert Doering wrote: Which is why we are VERY happy with every customer has a different L3 subnet - and yes, this is wasting a few IPv4 addresses, but since our customers usually have more than one machine, it's not 75%. Even so, the time of IPv4 is past, and we

[c-nsp] Audit tool for Cisco Config files

2009-08-26 Thread Bracey, John
I'm wondering if any of you have run across a tool that will audit a cisco configuration file (or files as the case may be) against a standard template? We have a configuration file repository and just need to be able to report on those configs as to compliance with our standard device

Re: [c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Darryl Dunkin
There are DHCP parameters we rely on every single day. Phones: Voice VLAN assignment, plus boot server DNS-Hostname mapping (having the DHCP server dynamically register the host/device in DNS) DNS Domain Name NTP/Time offset Legacy WINS servers (yes, I have networks unwilling/unable to get rid of

Re: [c-nsp] Audit tool for Cisco Config files

2009-08-26 Thread ML
Bracey, John wrote: I'm wondering if any of you have run across a tool that will audit a cisco configuration file (or files as the case may be) against a standard template? We have a configuration file repository and just need to be able to report on those configs as to compliance with our

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Shaun R.
David, Well it is possible to do with Xen too. We just use ebtables to filter traffic from each VPS. We restrict what comes in and out by the address and mac. Using vlans, at least for us, per VPS would be killer. We would have thousands of vlans already just for virtual servers. Right

Re: [c-nsp] Audit tool for Cisco Config files

2009-08-26 Thread Ryan West
cisecurity.org I think has RAT. It's a perl script you can customize for auditing both file and running configs. Sent from handheld. On Aug 26, 2009, at 7:07 PM, Bracey, John jbra...@csuchico.edu wrote: I'm wondering if any of you have run across a tool that will audit a cisco

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Martin Barry
$quoted_author = Shaun R. ; Well it is possible to do with Xen too. We just use ebtables to filter traffic from each VPS. We restrict what comes in and out by the address and mac. Using vlans, at least for us, per VPS would be killer. Unfortunately VMware's vSwitch (at least up to 3.5,

Re: [c-nsp] Large networks

2009-08-26 Thread Randy McAnally
With the number of virtual servers most of us are hosting you would run out of VLAN's very quickly. What I do is static route subnets to host nodes and let the host nodes do the L3 work. This takes care of MAC address conflicts, spoofing, and many other problems. -- Randy www.FastServ.com

Re: [c-nsp] [OT] Application Protocol Performance in low latency envrionments

2009-08-26 Thread Brad Henshaw
Ash Net wrote: The reason for performance degradation solely seems to be latency related since there's tons of b/w available in the lab setup and over 10G lanphy paths. Generally it is latency, yes. Sadly in many cases those expensive WAN acceleration devices are for the most part, munging

[c-nsp] USB Insertion/Removal Causes Reboot

2009-08-26 Thread Clayton Zekelman
Has anyone seen an issue with a NPE-G2 where insertion or removal of a USB flashdrive causes the router to crash and reboot? This happened to one of our routers earlier today. Cisco IOS Software, 7200 Software (C7200P-IPBASEK9-M), Version 12.4(24)T1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc3) *Aug 26