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

Re: [c-nsp] BGP outbound loadsharing

2009-01-23 Thread Kevin Loch
If you are taking full routes you can do manual traffic engineering (localpref certain as-paths higher/lower between the two links). There are also commercial products that will do this automatically for you (Avaya CNA, Internap FCP etc). If you have connections to differnt ISPs and cannot take

Re: [c-nsp] BGP outbound loadsharing

2009-01-23 Thread Kevin Loch
Alasdair McWilliam wrote: Hello, Apologies if this is a duplicate post, the original message went wrong and unsure if the list actually forwarded it on or not! This is a bit of an extension from the original post, but what would be considered best practice for outbound routing, if you had one

Re: [c-nsp] SXI1 is out

2009-04-01 Thread Kevin Loch
Peter Rathlev wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 14:01 -0400, Jared Mauch wrote: netflow on the 65xx is broken enough i'm surprised it gave you any data of value. Hm, I thought it worked okay. Out of curiosity, what should one be careful about with it, if one's network was dominated by 6500s? We

Re: [c-nsp] ebgp load balancing using maxiumu-paths TCAM impact onSup720-3BXL?

2009-05-21 Thread Kevin Loch
I am doing 8 parallel full tables to the same provider on an rsp720 with no issues. You can barely do 6 full tables on a sup720-3bxl. The limitation is processor memory not tcam. Here is what 6 looks like with 12.2SXF16: HeadTotal(b) Used(b) Free(b) Lowest(b)

Re: [c-nsp] full routing table / provider-class chassis

2009-06-11 Thread Kevin Loch
Jo Rhett wrote: I've been trying to spec Cisco for an upgrade of our Force10 backbone for nearly 2 months now. I'm just trying to clarify which platform Cisco recommends for full routing table/hardware forwarding/provider-class environments. Unfortunately every time I get through to the

Re: [c-nsp] full routing table / provider-class chassis

2009-06-12 Thread Kevin Loch
Phil Mayers wrote: Kevin Loch wrote: Unfortunately, Cisco's partners are useless. They propose 6509s without the DFCs, which we know will fall over. Well that depends... The DFC's only do next-hop (tcam) lookups and netflow. All packets are switched on the centralized PFC. Each line

Re: [c-nsp] Freezing counters at 6500

2009-07-29 Thread Kevin Loch
Grzegorz Janoszka wrote: Hi, We have several 6500's, some of them heavily loaded. We use snmp to graph traffic on all interfaces - just the simplest solution. Since some time we have had an issue with the interface counters. When the CPU box is really loaded (usually synchronization of BGP

Re: [c-nsp] Humor: Cisco announces end of BGP

2009-07-29 Thread Kevin Loch
TJ wrote: -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp- boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of David Freedman And what, prey tell is wrong with /126 on point to point links, you want to use SLAAC between routers? Nothing is wrong, per se. It certainly

Re: [c-nsp] VSS 1440 issues

2009-08-06 Thread Kevin Loch
C and C Dominte wrote: Thank you for your advice, however, increasing the timers did not work. I powered down the active linecards from switch 2 yesterday to see if it stopped the unicast flood, which it did. Today I increased the mac address syncronisation activity time to 640 and

Re: [c-nsp] multipath BGP not balancing equally.

2009-08-06 Thread Kevin Loch
This sounds like the unequal multipath is a quirk (feature?) of sup720 default load sharing behavior. It happens to any multipath routes (static, ospf, bgp) installed in the FIB: http://cisco.cluepon.net/index.php/Sup720_load_balancing shows a different ratios than OP but that might be due to

Re: [c-nsp] Enhanced download procedure

2009-09-17 Thread Kevin Loch
Jay Hennigan wrote: What the #$^$...@# is going on with Cisco's download site? It completely hangs Firefox with some shopping cart java thing. And this is downright scary: http://www.west.net/~jay/images/cisco-wants-root.png Enhanced downloads, brought to you by the same people who brought

Re: [c-nsp] 12.2(18)SXD to 12.2(33)SRB|C|D

2009-09-18 Thread Kevin Loch
Jason Lixfeld wrote: 3- There is one device on the network (an ASR1002 running 2.4.0) that is unable to see the loopback address via OSPF from this 7600 we just upgraded. It's built an adjacency with the 7600, so it's not an MTU thing, it just doesnt see the route for it's loopback

[c-nsp] fabric bandwidth on A9K-8T/4

2009-10-26 Thread Kevin Loch
The data sheet for the ASR9K-RSP-4G claims 180 gig/slot fabric. The data sheet for the A9K-8T/4 does not say what it's fabric bandwidth is. The /4 in the part number looks suspiciously like it is 2:1 over subscription. Does anyone know the fabric bandwidth on that card? The ASR9K data sheets

[c-nsp] unknown ethertype 0x200e

2009-11-07 Thread Kevin Loch
Does anyone know what this might be, from a routed interface on SRD3: 15:00:18.774808 00:02:fc:c1:0d:b2 00:00:00:00:02:02, ethertype Unknown (0x200e), length 78: 0x: 0001 0203 0405 0607 0809 0a0b 0c0d 0e0f 0x0010: 1011 1213 1415 1617 1819 1a1b 1c1d 1e1f

Re: [c-nsp] ASR1004 vs 7606(RSP720-CXL)

2009-11-30 Thread Kevin Loch
Asbjorn Hojmark - Lists wrote: On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:18:13 +0100, you wrote: Best to ask these questions of your Cisco account team. Exactly :) They say: We don't know. We can't get a definite answer from the BU. Hopefully they won't screw everyone (again) who forklifted their 6500's to

Re: [c-nsp] Rmon checksum failed on WS-C4006

2009-12-07 Thread Kevin Loch
I had this problem recently on a sup720, the lithium battery was dead. Fortunately it was socketed unlike on many of the sup2's. - Kevin Sony Scaria wrote: Thanks Clinton. My Cisco TAC rep also recommends the same. Sony. -Original Message- From: Clinton Work

Re: [c-nsp] cisco 6509 rommon mode

2010-01-20 Thread Kevin Loch
Have you tried replacing the lithium battery on the sup2? Hopefully you have a newer board with a socket. - Kevin ambedkar wrote: Hi, i cleaned the modules of 6509 and reinstalled, it shows inband gmac link did not come up: reseting the system System Bootstrap, Version 7.1(1) Copyright (c)

Re: [c-nsp] Netflow problem ...In Cisco 7606 Router

2010-02-07 Thread Kevin Loch
mdjahangir hossain wrote: Dear concern: I faced a problem in cisco SAR-7606 router about netflow.when i enable netflow , access to this router so slow.it would be nice for me can any one help how can i enable netflow in cisco 7606 router without this type of problem. Here the router IOS

Re: [c-nsp] Load-sharing with two links to the same ISP

2010-02-19 Thread Kevin Loch
Matthew Melbourne wrote: On looking at this again, it appears that BGP Multipath only works when the eBGP sessions are terminated on the same box. The scenario here is two eBGP session to the same ISP, but terminating on two different customer edge routers (with an iBGP session between them).

Re: [c-nsp] 7606 RSP720

2010-03-03 Thread Kevin Loch
Sharlon Carty wrote: Hello, I have a police-map applied to a vlan interface set to 10mbit. Works fine, as long as traffic is routed on the CEF720 48 port module. But the moment traffic is routed on the RSP720, traffic is above the 10mbit. Is there something on the RSP720 that needs to

Re: [c-nsp] 12.2SRC6 available

2010-03-15 Thread Kevin Loch
Mark Tinka wrote: On Monday 15 March 2010 03:35:32 am luismi wrote: I just see it. Anyone here testing it? :D I'd stopped tracking any developments in SRC as I thought that line had met its end. Just read the release notes... a couple of bug fixes but nothing that solves my biggest issue

Re: [c-nsp] combing 7600 power supplies

2010-05-10 Thread Kevin Loch
I migrated from a 2500w AC power supplies (running at 120v/1250w) to 2500w DC power supplies without any reboots or problems so you can mix and match AC/DC supplies of the same rating. - Kevin Jason Lixfeld wrote: As long as the power supply you are installing is exactly the same as the power

Re: [c-nsp] 4-byte ASN Support on 7600 SRE2

2010-10-10 Thread Kevin Loch
Gary T. Giesen wrote: Is anyone running SRE2 (or 1) in production on their Cisco 7600s? Any significant gotchas? Currently running SRD4 and I would like to gain 4-byte ASN support.. I might try the SRE train when the latest resolved cveats do not contain things like router will collapse into a

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 3750s - Stackwise Plus

2010-10-15 Thread Kevin Loch
Sean Granger wrote: The product listing on this page ( http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps5023/prod_models_comparison.html ) shows WS-C3750G-12S as being StackWise+ compatible. This is an older product and even the literature on the other 3750v2s just references the original

Re: [c-nsp] OIR on 7600s: Pretty much evil?

2010-11-11 Thread Kevin Loch
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: The bus is stalled all the time during the insertion. There is a few millimeters of insertion length where the bus is stalled. If you're rapid and firm in the insertion, you get a few tens of milliseconds of stall. If you do it wrong and the car gets stuck in that

Re: [c-nsp] BGP peer/customer routes

2011-05-31 Thread Kevin Loch
vince anton wrote: So what happens now is that for this more specific customer prefix, I have a specific route saying some AS5 nets are preferable via the peering link than via the direct customer link, and if I want to deliver transit traffic to my customer, my router would choose the peering

Re: [c-nsp] BGP peer/customer routes

2011-05-31 Thread Kevin Loch
vince anton wrote: it surprises me that some people seem to be ok with passing transit traffic over a peering link. I dont understand why you would want to do this, as to me this seems abuse or misconfiguration (possibly not intentional), and potentially very expensive, or loss of revenue.

Re: [c-nsp] Troubleshoot UDP out-of-sequence

2011-09-12 Thread Kevin Loch
Persio Pucci wrote: Hi folks, I am having some problems trying to figure out what could be causing UDP packets get out-of-sequence on some multicast streams (market data) between Sao Paulo and New York. Are there any Juniper M160's in the path of the packets? Those were notorious for

Re: [c-nsp] RSP720 dropping ipsec packets

2011-09-13 Thread Kevin Loch
Cassidy Larson wrote: Kevin, I had the exact same problem. We actually swapped out our RSP720 for a replacement. Unfortunately, the second one exhibited the same problems. Our third RSP720 did not, however. My vendor said he got both of the original two from the same dealer. I wonder if there

Re: [c-nsp] Huawei NE40E-X3 vs Cisco AS9K

2011-09-29 Thread Kevin Loch
70% seems *really* high an for rsp720. Are you sure it's not a sup720? The two have vastly different cpu performance (about 10x it seems). I have several rsp720 with many full bgp transit feeds + peer routes and my typical cpu usage is only 10%. What IOS image are you running and what else are

Re: [c-nsp] No Link between SFP-10G-LRM and X2-10GB-LX4?

2011-10-08 Thread Kevin Loch
ci...@entrap.de wrote: Greetings, I have a 6509 with an X6716-10GE Card equipped with Cisco X2-10GB-LX4 10GE modules and a Cisco 2960S-48TD-L Switch with two Cisco SFP-10G-LRM modules. LX4 and LRM are not compatible. LRM uses a single 1310nm laser, LX4 uses four lasers around 1310nm and wdm

Re: [c-nsp] Three ISPs - Three Edge Routers - iBGP Mesh

2011-11-22 Thread Kevin Loch
Mark Mason wrote: Two of our DC's are about to get their 3rd internet drop. Each ISP connection has its own edge router. HSRP is running facing on the LAN side. Please see https://supportforums.cisco.com/message/3496562#3496562 for topology and further discussions. I expect that packets