Switching

As the title suggests I have an orange status LED on the switch. Also, the unoccupied ports in the middle of the switch are solid orange(ports 8-17, with the exception of 9 which has no orange light).I have been unable to determine the cause of this ...

I have a 6509 currently running in Hybrid mode that I am researching to upgrade to native IOS.On a regular switch, I can delete the old IOS image to make room in the flash for the new IOS image.During the process I need to have the new IOS up on the ...

I am currently wrapping up my ICND2 studies and started reviewing some official Cisco Press documentation. This statement has been bothering me for some time now.I quote, "Portfast is used on access ports that are connected to a single workstation o...

Hi we have just upgraded our 6500 with a supervisor 720. we have older line cards which needed the dfc removing to work. The problem is we get high CPU util 99% for around 5 mins intermittently on the new 720.anyone have any ideas?

When a link in the (Layer 2) network was broken, traffic was switched (spanning tree protocol MSTP) to a link with a lower bandwidth, that could not cope and became congested.This resulted in some catalyst switches no longer being manageable, as high...

I have three sites running EIGRP in a ring topology. Sites 1 and 2 have been up and running for years, we added site 3 recently.We've run into an issue where every so often the 6509 in site 3 basically drops all routes for about 6 minutes. It un-ne...

Hi,Our cat 6509 has many port channel configured with channelprotocol as PAGP, now we would like to enable LACP on few ports to bundle them in channel, by ebabling LACP on 6509 as below "set channelprotocol lacp 6"Will this effect the exsisting port ...

Hi all,I'm a bit new to the Nexus switches and I'm trying to do something which I've done in the past without problems. I want to restrict what static routes are redistributed into OSPF. Now looking at the commands under the OSPF instance they look...

HiYesterday I put a vlan acl on a vlan that pretty much blocked everything except for a number of ports. When I put the access-list on, I saw on the acl logging that it was blocking pc's in the vlan from accessing multicast addresses that were only p...

hi alli am still unsure how the cat 6500 boot options work, can anyone please clarify where they boot from from default? and how to change this ?