Switching

I'm having a unique situation. I have a network that has a pair of 6500 switches on either end, running HSRP. In between each 6500 are two to three ruggedcom switches. They are connected to each other and the 6500's by trunk ports in a straight line....

I work for a small company with  around 20 office employees.  We are lookig to get another location.  The  one in the new location will need to VPN into the old location server  in order to access files and programs ran on the server.  Do you have a ...

I have found this question posted a couple of times, but I have yet to see it answered.On a 3750/3560 to enable jumbo frames on gigabit interfaces I enter the global config command "system mtu jumbo 9000".Switch#sho system mtuSystem MTU size is 1998 ...

Hello,   Nexus dhcp relay does filter DISCOVER|OFFER broadcasts at layer 2.Is there a way to get rid of those filters? Adding dhcp relay addresses is not a viable option, since we don't even know the addresses of all dhcp servers in all subnets.Curre...

Hi,        VLAN MAC address filter does not seem to be working on my 4900 switch. However the same config works fine when tested on my 3750 & 3560 switches.Since user from different VLANs requires to be blocked, Unicast MAC address filter will not be...

Greetings. Has anyone successfully connected a legacy Nortel switch (425/450/470/BPS) to a Nexus 7000 via gigabit fiber? I have a customer trying to do it and they say that the connection never comes up. The support on the Nortel stuff is long since ...

Hi,I have a VM cluster enviornment and one of the VM hosts traffic needs to be monitored.The VM cluster has a DV switch configured consisting of multiple port groups for each vlan present. The VM clusters are connected to the core switch via trunk po...

Hi allI have a 6509-E chassis that was prevoius in a VSS configuration. Due to some VSL failures I had to cobvert it to a standalone chassis but would like to bring it back to a virtual system.Whenever I try to convert it by using the command "switch...

When we snmp walk the following MIB OID:CPU    - .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.109.1.1.1.1.5MEM    - .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.48.1.1.1.5. and .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.48.1.1.1.6.It return a instance value at the end of the output, sometimes it will return instance 1 to 7:CPU:snm...

I just received a Nexus 5548 to configure as the core of the Datacenter LAN.  Is it true that the VRFs created cannot talk to each other???  I can't seem to find any documentation on how to do this and at least one TAC engineer half-heartedly believe...