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...
9200CX USB Console — Not Recognized When Connected After Switch Has Already Booted (works fine if connected before power-on)Posting this in case it's helpful to others, or in case someone from Cisco/TAC can confirm whether this is expected behavior.P...
Both interfaces work independently but fail to bond when configuring LAG. Confirmed working via auto negotiation & statically configured10GB. One interface or the other will become active but then we get errors below:147477017 2026-Jul-29 22:45:41 In...
We have several 2960 switch connected to our network with 1g fiber that we're seeing latency on. I'm pining continuously from a desktop on the network and getting mostly <1ms but every so often I will see spike from 500-1000ms or more.What would be ...
Hello everyone,I've been reading a lot about switch selection and network design lately, and one thing I've noticed is that most deployment lessons aren't learned from documentation—they're learned after a real installation.Specifications and feature...
Hello!Since I currently don't have a gateway that can be configured via L2VPN IPSec, I wanted to try using MACsec. It seems like people are writing that it's possible and everything works, the provider shouldn't cut the eapol and transmit pure ethern...
Hello everyone,We're currently planning a network upgrade using Cisco as the core infrastructure while considering Ubiquiti for branch offices and wireless connectivity.For those who have experience with both platforms, how has this combination worke...
2 Switches I am working with. Connected together via 10gig fiber. Both are Catalyst 9200's. These are SVL DANTE traffic core switches. I need to set one as IGMP querier and point the other switch to the querier. The switches have 3 VLANS on them. VL...
Hi all,Very basic question here, but hoping you can help.We have just had two MS250 switches sent over to us from another site, and we're looking to mount them in a standard four-post datacentre rack.The switches have been supplied with the front mou...
I forgot my password and can no longer log in to the Catalyst 2960S via the console.Is my understanding of the password recovery procedure correct?I want to recover only the password without resetting the existing configuration.1. Press and hold the ...
Hi, I have 4 VLANs - 10, 20, 30 and 40. VLANs 10 and 20 are VXLAN enabled with L3VNI. Communications works fine between them. VLANs 30 and 40 are for guest access and needs to be VXLAN enabled as well but need to be in different VRF since they cant h...
Hello,I have multiple Cisco switch models in my environment, including Catalyst 9300 (Stacked), IE9320(Stacked), and IE3300 switches. All switches are currently running IOS-XE version 17.18.03.I am facing multiple issues related to SNMPv3 configurati...
Hi folks,I have a MS and MR replaced by RMA, there is an option to restore de backup configuration or needs to reconfigure it again from scratch?Appreciate your comments.Thanks.
Hello,I have 2 IE9320 Switch and configuration in a Stack and Port number Gig1/0/24 and G2/0/24 is connected to Palo Alto Firewall which has LACP confguration and everything is working fine. I am facing weird issue, when I power Off the active Switch...
Hello All!I did some looking around the forums and found what I think might explain the behavior we ran across today, but I wanted to ask the experts to see if we are on the right track. Here is what we saw:We had a 3550 switch and a 3745 router. B...
I am brand new to Cisco, My apologies for the newbie questions.My switch is running Firmware 1.1.2.0 and I want to upgrade it. I have downloaded both 1.4.1.03 and 1.4.11.5. When I attempt to update the firmware, I am using AdministrationFile Manageme...
