[c-nsp] Cisco Xenpak

2012-12-14 Thread Azher Mughal
Any recommendations for Cisco compatible Xenpak for ER and ZR ? Thanks -Azher ___ 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] Cisco Xenpak

2012-12-14 Thread Azher Mughal
Thanks All for the suggestions. -Azher On 12/14/2012 11:21 AM, Saku Ytti wrote: On (2012-12-14 11:01 -0800), Azher Mughal wrote: Any recommendations for Cisco compatible Xenpak for ER and ZR ? You might want to give your investment more value by buying XENPAK to SFP+ adapters. When you

Re: [c-nsp] Performance issue on link

2013-04-01 Thread Azher Mughal
These might be helpful: http://fasterdata.es.net/network-tuning/ http://www.mellanox.com/related-docs/prod_software/Performance_Tuning_Guide_for_Mellanox_Network_Adapters.pdf -Azher On 4/1/2013 3:51 PM, CiscoNSP List wrote: Hi, We have a 40Mb link between 2 POPs - Latency ~65m/sec (No packet

Re: [c-nsp] Transfer speed issues on 3560G

2013-05-01 Thread Azher Mughal
ethtool might help getting the Speed/Duplex settings for that interface on the server: e.g.  ethtool eth0 -Azher Brandon Ewing wrote: This is a strange issue that I have noticed on a 3560G that we have deployed. We have two servers, on different ports, controlled by different ASICs. Each

Re: [c-nsp] Bug ID CSCsv50653

2013-05-01 Thread Azher Mughal
After reload, 3550 does not load share Symptom: A 3550 was reloaded. After it came back online, it was no longer load-sharing correctly out of its two uplinks (g0/1 + g0/2). All of the traffic was only going out one uplink. Wo

Re: [c-nsp] 10GE WAN options for 7606 for market data / micro-bursting

2013-05-01 Thread Azher Mughal
Another option is WS-6708 http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns668/net_qanda0900aecd80534905.html -Azher Matthew Huff wrote: We are planning on moving a large portion of our data center to a colo facility at an financial exchange. We will be using redundant

Re: [c-nsp] Centos upload speed slower on 1000m than 100m over WAN links

2013-05-01 Thread Azher Mughal
Perhaps this involves kernel TCP tunning at higher latency, see e.g. http://monalisa.cern.ch/FDT/documentation_syssettings.html http://fasterdata.es.net/TCP-tuning/linux.html -Azher bas wrote: Hi, On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Paul wrote: Yeah I tried that.. I really th

Re: [c-nsp] linux based syslog viewer/GUI

2011-02-13 Thread Azher Mughal
Another nice software with alerts: http://www.8pussy.org/dokuwiki/doku.php -Azher On 2/13/2011 5:40 PM, Brian Spade wrote: > Excellent, thanks! This looks real nice... I'm going to try it out. > > /bs > > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Paul Sherratt wrote: > >> You might also like to check ou

Re: [c-nsp] 40G QSFP to 4*10G SFP+ Breakout Optical Cable

2014-06-18 Thread Azher Mughal
I don't have Cisco switches with QSFP ports, but have used both SR and LR versions of these breakout cables from Elpeus.com without problems in Dell / Force10. Cheers -Azher On 6/18/2014 5:41 AM, Andrew Miehs wrote: > Was looking at this a while ago - but haven't had a chance to try any of it > -

Re: [c-nsp] sdn/nfv

2014-06-19 Thread Azher Mughal
Things are coming slowly, e.g. Wedge from Facebook: https://code.facebook.com/posts/681382905244727/introducing-wedge-and-fboss-the-next-steps-toward-a-disaggregated-network/ http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-just-fired-a-huge-shot-at-cisco-2014-6 -Azher On 6/19/2014 1:33 PM, Aaron wrote:

Re: [c-nsp] IOS: catch 22 when enabling new bgp neighbors

2014-06-20 Thread Azher Mughal
How about "neighbor 1.1.1.1 remote-as 12 shutdown". It issues two commands: neighbor 1.1.1.1 remote-as 12 neighbor 1.1.1.1 shutdown -Azher On 6/20/2014 10:00 AM, Dimitris Befas wrote: > Use IOS-XR instead :-) > > With IOS and XE you may just configure a wrong AS number (neighbor 2001::123 > remo

Re: [c-nsp] QSFP 40G breakout cable

2014-09-15 Thread Azher Mughal
I have used these breakout cables with Finisar and Dell Optics without any issues: http://www.elpeus.com/mtp-mpo-products/mtp-mpo-breakout-fiber-cables/mtp-mpo-to-8x-lc-breakout-om3-50-125-plenum-cable/ Cheers -Azher On 9/15/2014 9:22 AM, Luan Nguyen wrote: > Hi folks, > > Anyone from the northe

Re: [c-nsp] 40G on longer than 10km distances

2014-11-09 Thread Azher Mughal
In case if you need QSFP+ ER optics then I have been using Innolight optics especially, the 40G LR and PSM in s4810/Z9000 switches. http://innolight.com/Home/ENG/Product.aspx?CID=2945&CateID=3A31825B-CA27-441B-AA47-958BD346D6AC On 11/9/2014 10:01 AM, Tom Hill wrote: > On 09/11/14 17:53, Alan Bux

Re: [c-nsp] Network monitoring / NMS software

2015-07-09 Thread Azher Mughal
Try the Ubuntu Image which is all pre-configured, saves lots of time. I am using it under a CentOS KVM installation. Once you are logged in then go to /opt/librenms and issue 'git pull' to get the latest updates. The only caveats you might come across is the size of disk space which is 10GB at th

Re: [c-nsp] C6509 Fabric Switch Capacity

2016-01-13 Thread Azher Mughal
For WS 6704 (with DFC3B), I was able to go close to 9Gbps per port across the bus when using Iperf and jumbo frames. Single port on each of the bus gives you line rate of 9.9Gbps. -Azher On 1/13/2016 7:01 AM, Adam Vitkovsky wrote: >> Chris Knipe >> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 2:31 PM >> >>

Re: [c-nsp] C6509 Fabric Switch Capacity

2016-01-13 Thread Azher Mughal
:) I agree, performance will vary for smaller packet sizes. -Azher On 1/13/2016 7:24 AM, Simon Lockhart wrote: > On Wed Jan 13, 2016 at 07:10:09AM -0800, Azher Mughal wrote: >> For WS 6704 (with DFC3B), I was able to go close to 9Gbps per port >> across the bus when using Iperf a

Re: [c-nsp] Rec for full-table multi-peer bgp router?

2016-12-01 Thread Azher Mughal
On 12/1/2016 12:28 AM, Adrian Minta wrote: >> Thanks Gert & Peter. I’m going to look into the 9001. We have a >> bunch of Arista in the core doing ospf/ospfv3, the rep there >> suggested their 7280SR, which is 48 SFP+, 6 QSFP, and they claim it’s >> stable as a BGP router with limitations of 1.2

Re: [c-nsp] Client/server bandwidth tester

2008-05-07 Thread Azher Mughal
Iperf, netperf are good tools for bandwidth measurements (both udp and tcp, uni and bidirectional). You can find more from Caida. http://www.caida.org/tools/taxonomy/performance.xml -Azher Brandon Price wrote: > Hey guys, I'm looking for a good bandwidth tester. > > I would like to have somethi

Re: [c-nsp] 10GE sanity check

2008-05-17 Thread Azher Mughal
It should not work as both have different encoding and no of wavelengths. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps708/prod_white_paper0900aecd802a648b.html -Azher Justin M. Streiner wrote: > I'm just looking for a quick sanity check here on 10GE optics. > > A 10GBASE-LX4 xen

Re: [c-nsp] Wierd memory issue with SXI/SXI1 on 6500 w/ SUP720-3BXL

2009-08-30 Thread Azher Mughal
SXI2 will give you another malloc bug :) CSCtb27643cat6000 Medium buffers leak on SP leading to crash Here is a workaround suggested by Cisco: One workaround is to disable the diag test 'TestEARLInternalTables' on all the DFC/PFC modules. However, this workaround will only stop further me

Re: [c-nsp] DWDM optics on 6500s

2009-10-05 Thread Azher Mughal
In order to use SFP+ from other vendors in Arista, you need to get them enabled first. -Azher Nick Hilliard wrote: On 05/10/2009 15:35, Jeff Bacon wrote: Admittedly, for the cost, I can buy an arista 1U for wave passthru and just tap multiple 1Gs over to the 6500. Aristas use SFP+. Good lu