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...
So IOS XE 17.18.2 is now listed as the latest stable release for Catalyst switches in the firmware upgrade portal on Meraki dashboard. What's odd is that the older 17.15.4.1 is listed as a stable release candidate. I'd love to understand if 17.18.2 i...
I have a weird situation that I am hoping someone can help me with. I have a HPE array that has fiber ports to upline to the data switches. The interesting thing is that the uplinks won't connect with the 10Gg ports on a Cisco Catalyst 9300, but if ...
Hi all,I have two switch.Switch 1 is a standalone switch with two TenGig ports as 1 port-channel (ports ten1/1/1 and ten1/1/8). Switch 2 is a stacked switch with two TenGig port as 1 port-channel (ports ten1/1/1 and ten2/1/1).When I run show xfsu eli...
I bought a Cisco Catalyst switch from a hamfest (amateur radio swap meet) and am trying to get it working. I am a retired software engineer and am just looking to get this working. I can connect to it through a serial conection and can run some ini...
Hello,I am confused about what OCG says about RSTP convergence.OCG says RSTP puts the alternate port into root role and forwarding state immediately.But then it also says the learning state is also used in RSTP.There seems a bit of a contradiction b...
New to Cisco C9300, what is the default login and Password using Telnet
Anyone knows if Cisco has changed the default credentials to login to Cat 9300L?
Is there any plan to resolve the issue that is keeping us from being unable to upgrade our sites with Meraki CS9300 running CS 17.2.3 to the IOS XE 17.15.5 via template? I can see this note in the 17.15.5 release notes and the 17.18.X release notes:...
could someone help me to recover password for default admin username? everything was up and running on my nexus switch. Today I recovered password with this commandnexus(config)#username admin password 0 NEWPASSWORD role network-admin and I lost conn...
Hi,we want to replace the next setupInternet - FW -(p2p)- CAT4500 - several switches + vlansforInternet - FW - (p2p) - 9300 - several switches + vlansThe p2p is a /30 network between FW and core switchTo achieve the above the have regiesterda a switc...
Switches - MS software versions MS 18.1.8.1 changelogImportant alertsMS130-24(P) switches will reboot twice during the upgrade process when transitioning to MS 18.1.8 (or later) from MS 18.1.7 or earlier. This behaviour is expected, and is not indica...
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Switches - CS / IOS XE software versions IOS XE 17.18.4.1 changelogImportant notesAfter upgrading to Cloud Management with IOS XE, it is not possible to downgrade to any CS firmware via Dashboard. In order to downgrade to CS firmware, a factory reset...
Hi everyone,When comparing network switches, I often see people focus on port count, uplink speeds, and management features, but I think the PoE budget can be just as important.For example, a switch may have 24 PoE-capable ports, but that doesn't nec...
Good evening everyone, Could someone lead me in the right direction for getting IOS/IOU Images for GNS3?From what I've been reading, I may need to get a service contract with cisco to even get them.What would be the best way to get these images?
