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Welcome to the Cisco Community Ask Me Anything conversation. Submit your questions from Monday, February 2, 2026, through Friday, February 20, 2026. Our colleagues Amruta Navadagi, Anaya Kalawat, and Mohammad Mehtabuddin will be waiting to assist you...

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amnavada by Cisco Employee
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I have an older 3560 switch that I think may have corrupted firmware and I would like to try reinstalling it.  It seems that the software download center will allow me to download the image, but it also says that I agree to not download software for ...

etb by Community Member
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Hello all,I've been working on this for awhile now and have tried different configurations but cannot figure out what I'm missing. It's pretty simple, I think...I have (1) 1841 router and (1) 2960 24 port switch. Ports 1-12 are on VLAN1 and ports 13-...

firstascent by Community Member
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Hi,I have a broken C6503. It has no power at all, all leds are off in front and in back.Is the PEM broken or power supply in back?Br,Sami

samisa by Community Member
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I have (2) 6509 Core switches, (4) 4506 and (2) 4503 edge switches. Would like to upgrade to 10GB, provide redundancy (no single point of failure) and link aggregation (for maximum throughput).What supervisor modules should I purchase? GBIC\SFP's sho...

rjones by Community Member
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Hi,If I SPAN (port mirroring) on a large  number of source ports or if I exceed the number of sessions, which  may be the  consequences for our equipments ?Typically,  can the switch "crash" ?  if so, what limits should  I meet ?Thanks a lot

ComstorFR by Level 3
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Hi all experts.When i issue "wr" or "copy running startup" it shows "Building configuration" and then waits for like few seconds, before returning me the prompt. Is there anyway to speed up this process ? i dont like to wait for "wr" to make me wait....

Jonn cos by Level 9
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Setting up tacacs for multiple CatOS 6509 switches, the TACACS server requires the source IP of the switch in order to authenticate properly. I think in general the source IP for a TACACS request would be the management IP set on SC0, right? What abo...

101100101 by Frequent Visitor
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Hi eveyone, I have just tried setting up the Cisco Netowrk Assistant 5.6 on my Win 7 Enterprise 64bit (I know its not supported) and Win XP SP3 (unsure if its supported. The documentation says SP2...but surely thats not right??). I have approx 30 swi...