Re: [c-nsp] Tier-2 Internet Provider Design

2010-04-21 Thread Mack McBride
BGP design and implementation - http://www.amazon.com/BGP-Design-Implementation-Randy-Zhang/dp/1587051095 Practical BGP - http://www.amazon.com/Practical-BGP-Russ-White/dp/0321127005 Routing TCP/IP Volume 1 - http://www.amazon.com/Routing-TCP-IP-1-2nd/dp/1587052024 Routing TCP/IP Volume 2 -

[c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr
Hello List, Someone once told me that there is no such thing as dummy question so I am going to ask. Could anyone recommend a USB to Serial Converter that : - is compatible Mac OS X, - is compatible with minicom (or else), *- knows how to send breaks (the must have feature),* I have been

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Jay Hennigan
On 4/21/10 1:15 AM, Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr wrote: Could anyone recommend a USB to Serial Converter that : - is compatible Mac OS X, - is compatible with minicom (or else), *- knows how to send breaks (the must have feature),* I use the Keyspan USA-19HS, does all of the above quite

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Aleksandar
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr yous...@720.fr wrote: Someone once told me that there is no such thing as dummy question so I am going to ask. Could anyone recommend a USB to Serial Converter that : - is compatible Mac OS X, http://osx-pl2303.sourceforge.net/ -

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Alan Buxey
Hi, On 4/21/10 1:15 AM, Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr wrote: Could anyone recommend a USB to Serial Converter that : - is compatible Mac OS X, - is compatible with minicom (or else), *- knows how to send breaks (the must have feature),* I use the Keyspan USA-19HS, does all of the

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Chris Boyd
On Apr 21, 2010, at 3:37 AM, Jay Hennigan wrote: I use the Keyspan USA-19HS, does all of the above quite well, it just works. No complaints. +1 for the USA-19HS. Had mine about 4 years now, and it just keeps working despite rattling around in my bag all that time. --Chris

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Peter Rathlev
On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 10:15 +0200, Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr wrote: Could anyone recommend a USB to Serial Converter that : - is compatible Mac OS X, - is compatible with minicom (or else), *- knows how to send breaks (the must have feature),* I have been stuck with this model that doesn't

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Zisko
Hello all! does anyone have experiance with something like this: http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/17745?source=googleps I think this could be cool - if it works fine :-) On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Zisko zisko@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! does anyone have experiance with

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread joshua atterbury
when would you send a break to a 3560/3750? to break in you hold the mode button on boot. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Peter Rathlev pe...@rathlev.dk wrote: On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 10:15 +0200, Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr wrote: Could anyone recommend a USB to Serial Converter that : - is

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr
Hello, Looks like the keyspan is a great adapater. Does it ship with drivers or is it plug-and-play for Mac OS X ? Thanks. Y. 2010/4/21 Chris Boyd cb...@gizmopartners.com On Apr 21, 2010, at 3:37 AM, Jay Hennigan wrote: I use the Keyspan USA-19HS, does all of the above quite well, it

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:12:43AM +0200, Peter Rathlev wrote: We seem to have problems making the small Catalyst switches understand breaks though (3560/3750). Could that be related to your problem? Some of the more recent switches don't want a break on the console, but pressing of the

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Chris Boyd
On Apr 21, 2010, at 4:32 AM, Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr wrote: Looks like the keyspan is a great adapater. Does it ship with drivers or is it plug-and-play for Mac OS X ? It does require a driver--I've been using the one that came with mine. Looks like there's a new one for 10.6:

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Chris Boyd
On Apr 21, 2010, at 4:38 AM, Chris Boyd wrote: It does require a driver--I've been using the one that came with mine. Looks like there's a new one for 10.6: http://www.tripplite.com/shared/software/Driver/Mac-OS-10-6-v26b3-driver.zip And to follow up my own post, the release notes say

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Peter Rathlev
On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 19:30 +1000, joshua atterbury wrote: when would you send a break to a 3560/3750? to break in you hold the mode button on boot. That might sometimes be a problem if the switch is in some far away place with only a console cable in place. :-) -- Peter

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Ian Henderson
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Chris Boyd wrote: +1 for the USA-19HS. Had mine about 4 years now, and it just keeps working despite rattling around in my bag all that time. Agreed, same. I prefer screen over minicom though - 'screen /dev/tty.KeySeriail1' and it just works. Rgds, - I.

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Patrick Muldoon
On Apr 21, 2010, at 4:37 AM, Jay Hennigan wrote: I use the Keyspan USA-19HS, does all of the above quite well, it just works. No complaints. +1. I use my Keyspan between my MacBookPro and my Linux based netbook (both with minicom) and it just works.. -Patrick -- Patrick Muldoon

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Patrick Muldoon
On Apr 21, 2010, at 5:09 AM, Alan Buxey wrote: same here. only small gotcha - doest seem to work properly if OSX is running in 64bit mode native (either by manually setting, or holding down '6' when booting up. fix? run in 32bit mode currently. works fine here, native 64 bit

Re: [c-nsp] Two routers with Single ISP Scenario

2010-04-21 Thread shadow floating
Thanks a lot All for your valuable advice and time. regards, Nad On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Vincent C Jones v.jo...@networkingunlimited.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 14:29 +0200, Peter Rathlev wrote: On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 14:11 +0200, shadow floating wrote: I've one of my customers

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Ziv Leyes
I didn't know screen can be used in such way, thanks for the idea. Anyway, minicom is configurable, but for a GUI environment I prefer using GTKTerm which has much more easy ways to configure stuff. I'd second the Keyspan or ATen, I've worked with both of them with no problems, for Windows and

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Alexander Clouter
Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr yous...@720.fr wrote: Someone once told me that there is no such thing as dummy question so I am going to ask. Could anyone recommend a USB to Serial Converter that : - is compatible Mac OS X, - is compatible with minicom (or else), *- knows how to send

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Christopher.Marget
- is compatible Mac OS X, *- knows how to send breaks (the must have feature),* On OSX there's a great terminal emulator called ZTerm, written by Dave Alverson. It supports a nifty feature to send BREAK even when your hardware or drivers don't support it. BREAK amounts to holding the TX

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Jon Lewis
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Ziv Leyes wrote: And by the way, no matter the brand, they all seem to use the same Prolific PL2303 chip, no need to reinvent the wheel... Ziv I have seen and used others...but the last time I went looking for several, they all seemed to use the PL2303 chip...and these

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Erik Soosalu
I would recommend ATEN UC232A (http://www.aten-usa.com/?productcat=795Item=UC232A), I have used it every day without a problem for the last 5 years. IOGear rebadges this as the GUC-232A. Works very well. ___ cisco-nsp mailing list

[c-nsp] non-cisco transceivers on A9K

2010-04-21 Thread Dmitry Kiselev
Hello! Could anybody in the list confirm that service unsupported transceiver command and non-Cisco XFP modules are supported on ASR9000 platform? Thanks! -- Dmitry Kiselev ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net

[c-nsp] OT: Backup Software

2010-04-21 Thread Ziv Leyes
Hi all, I'm in search for a good centralized unified backup system for all our devices. If I said I have cisco devices you'd all probably say rancid, but I have several different types of devices I need to backup and the way I access them varies from one to another. So far we've been working

Re: [c-nsp] DMVPN scalability question on the 28XX ISR's

2010-04-21 Thread Luan Nguyen
Like someone else said, if you don't have to run dynamic routing protocol, then ODR or static would do wonder. In this case, a dual hub (loadshare/backup) for 1000+ spokes would be just fine. With EIGRP, you could safely do 500+ spokes per ASR. A few years back, either Cisco did some tests and

Re: [c-nsp] OT: Backup Software

2010-04-21 Thread Jens Link
Ziv Leyes z...@gilat.net writes: I'm in search for a good centralized unified backup system for all our devices. If I said I have cisco devices you'd all probably say rancid, rancid can handle more than Cisco. Rule of thump: If there is a command line interface you probably can use rancid

Re: [c-nsp] Unicast traffic being sent to every port? Aging issue?

2010-04-21 Thread Chris Woodfield
Replying to an old thread... I'm seeing a very similar situation caused not by ZFS but by a dual-switch model resulting in one switch never seeing the frames that come in over the other since their least-cost routing hop is on the same switch. We've tuned our CAM and ARP timeouts to prevent

Re: [c-nsp] non-cisco transceivers on A9K

2010-04-21 Thread rr
Command accepted in 3.9.0 but did not confirm the laser actually worked. Randy On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Dmitry Kiselev dmi...@dmitry.net wrote: Hello! Could anybody in the list confirm that service unsupported transceiver command and non-Cisco XFP modules are supported on ASR9000

Re: [c-nsp] Unicast traffic being sent to every port? Aging issue?

2010-04-21 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:05:29AM -0400, Chris Woodfield wrote: However, while researching the issue I found this paragraph in Cisco's docs: Note: In MSFC IOS, there is an optimization that will trigger VLAN interfaces to repopulate their ARP tables when there is a TCN in the

Re: [c-nsp] Unicast traffic being sent to every port? Aging issue?

2010-04-21 Thread Chris Woodfield
You're right, we don't, but they're not *completely* unavoidable... :) -C On Apr 21, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Gert Doering wrote: Hi, On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:05:29AM -0400, Chris Woodfield wrote: However, while researching the issue I found this paragraph in Cisco's docs: Note: In MSFC

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:15:43AM +0200, Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr wrote: Hello List, Someone once told me that there is no such thing as dummy question so I am going to ask. Could anyone recommend a USB to Serial Converter that : - is compatible Mac OS X, - is compatible with minicom (or

Re: [c-nsp] 6500 line card mounted cable management bars (??)

2010-04-21 Thread Matthew White (MAWHI)
copper cards. Lots of modular solutions, cable assembles, patch panels, available. Panduit makes a cable assemblies for this purpose. Might not be exactly what the OP was looking for, but it may help. http://bit.ly/bT6Nfd ___ cisco-nsp mailing

[c-nsp] Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco Small Business Video Surveillance Cameras and Cisco 4-Port Gigabit Security Routers Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

2010-04-21 Thread Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco Small Business Video Surveillance Cameras and Cisco 4-Port Gigabit Security Routers Authentication Bypass Vulnerability Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20100421-vsc http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20100421

Re: [c-nsp] DMVPN scalability question on the 28XX ISR's

2010-04-21 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:35:37 -0700, Luan Nguyen l...@netcraftsmen.net wrote: In this case, a dual hub (loadshare/backup) for 1000+ spokes would be just fine. Single-hub, dual-cloud scales and performs and converges better than dual-hub, single-cloud and are not even recommended by Cisco.

Re: [c-nsp] DMVPN scalability question on the 28XX ISR's

2010-04-21 Thread Dennis Bertram
We are using a laptop running windows xp and ftp server from 3com 3cdeamon. connected to the cable modem - 10kcmts - cisco 3650 sw - deal power edge server running ubunto server. I connect to the servers using ssh and from the shell I ftp to the laptop Doing command line put's and get's using

Re: [c-nsp] DMVPN scalability question on the 28XX ISR's

2010-04-21 Thread Luan Nguyen
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[c-nsp] Radius Accounting Question

2010-04-21 Thread Paul Stewart
Hi there.. On a 7206VXR with the following radius configuration, does the accounting packets get delivered to all radius servers or is it something else like round robin? I'm trying to troubleshoot an issue where accounting packets are not showing up where expected all the time... in

Re: [c-nsp] OT: Backup Software

2010-04-21 Thread Nick Colton
Has anyone tried zip-tools for this type of thing? On 4/21/10, Jens Link li...@quux.de wrote: Ziv Leyes z...@gilat.net writes: I'm in search for a good centralized unified backup system for all our devices. If I said I have cisco devices you'd all probably say rancid, rancid can handle

Re: [c-nsp] DMVPN scalability question on the 28XX ISR's

2010-04-21 Thread Engelhard Mahandar Labiro
For managing DMVPN, we are testing with a new product from Cisco which is Cisco Security Manager. Anyone has experience with this ? This software is part of Cisco Virtual Office solution. What kind of software do you folks use to provision/manage bigger size DMVPN? Way back, I used Cisco IP

Re: [c-nsp] Radius Accounting Question

2010-04-21 Thread Frank Bulk
We use accounting to start/stop an internet filtering service for customer who've signed up, and we've not had an issue with RADIUS accounting. We added aaa accounting update periodic 480 jitter maximum 600 to help catch an hiccups on the internet filtering device if it loses state on a

Re: [c-nsp] Radius Accounting Question

2010-04-21 Thread Pshem Kowalczyk
On 22 April 2010 10:24, Paul Stewart p...@paulstewart.org wrote: Hi there.. On a 7206VXR with the following radius configuration, does the accounting packets get delivered to all radius servers or is it something else like round robin?  I'm trying to troubleshoot an issue where accounting

[c-nsp] Load balance IPSec with Cisco ACE

2010-04-21 Thread Engelhard
Does anyone know if Cisco ACE can loadbalance IPSec protocol? Docs on Cisco said that AcE only able to loadbalance TCP/UDP/SIp/SSL/ Firewall but doesn't mention specifically about IPSec Appreciate for any info ___ cisco-nsp mailing list

[c-nsp] IOS 15.1 and 'inspect' rule (zone-based firewall)

2010-04-21 Thread Ivan Poddubnyy
Hi all, I couldn't find explanation to this oddity on TAC, I would appreciate some help. I'm running (migrating to) 15.1 on Cisco 2821 router. The router configured with zone-based firewall. The config has following lines: -- ... parameter-map type inspect audit audit-trail

Re: [c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

2010-04-21 Thread Doug McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:14:37AM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Ziv Leyes wrote: And by the way, no matter the brand, they all seem to use the same Prolific PL2303 chip, no need to reinvent the wheel... Ziv I have seen and used others...but the last time I went looking