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...
Is there a way to check basic Meraki switch hardware health metrics? Unit temperature, fan speeds, any internal failures?The "device health" tab seems to only expose some hardware statuses (CPU: good / poor; memory: good / poor, etc.) - but I see no ...
Can anyone explain why a burned-in MAC address might deviate from the logical numbering scheme? Typically, the MAC addresses for a switch’s ports begin with a base MAC address and increment in sequence, corresponding to the port numbers. In our case,...
Hi everyoneOur SFP-10G-ER modules aren't recognized as supported by a C9300-24S with C9300-NM-8X. According to the compatibility matrix, they should be compatible.We tried workarounds I've found for similar errors, like cold-boot the switch several t...
Hi All,I've read some posts about noisy switches, but this post isn't about that issue.I'm trying to get a good idea of how loud the Meraki switch fans actually are (when operating normally).Specifically, we are looking at rolling out MS225-24P (PoE ...
Hello switching experts! I have deployed a pair of Cat 9300 switches i.e 9300-48T-E running IOS 17.9.4. These switches are stacked. Everything is working fine. However, a strange issue is being faced i.e. switch is unable to ping its local SVI. The p...
Hi, we are planning to deploy catalyst 9500-48Y4C as new core switch in our office. What is the best practice to connection stackwise-virtual links and dual-active-detection links? use uplink module 100G ports with DAC or use normal ports? Are the fi...
please help & Please sent link how can checked in warranty...
I want to limit the bandwidth for specific traffic from a server on the Catalyst 9000.Is the following policing configuration correct?I want to control the bandwidth on the inbound direction of the interface connected to the server.Also, am I correct...
PXE boot (WDS) stopped working after we upgraded MS switches to 18.1.9.The PXE client downloads the NBP, then hangs at "Contacting server" (0x102).- Same PXE failure on 3 different MS210 stacks in 3 different networks, all on 18.1.9.- Downgrading one...
We are troubleshooting a recurring issue between a Cisco Catalyst 9407R and a Palo Alto PA-3410, and would like to know if anyone has seen the same behaviour.Environment- Switch: Catalyst 9407R stackwise virtual, IOS-XE 17.18.3, supervisor/line card-...
Hey all,Long story short;I have a C2960G-24TC-L here that had sw version that was incapable of crypto keys. The goal being able to ssh into it..The state of this thing now is pretty much blank after after formating the flash like a dummy beacause of ...
Hello There is any Catalyst model that have (12 x RJ45 + 12 x SFP+) as same as CBS350-24XTSAppreciate your help Thanks
Dear Team, I am unable to upgrade my cisco switch image & getting below error. Also from same tftp i am able to upgrade WLC imagealso able to take backups & everything but not able to upgarde image. ICMP ping is good between user machine & TFTP se...
When an IE-4100 / Catalyst IE-9300 is in PTP-Grandmaster mode, using NTP as reference time, where does the PTP_Account obtain the currentUTCOffset value?Does IOS-XE/IOS-XR/NX-OS have a built-in database?I know that it can be manually overridden with:...
Hello everyone!I am studying enterprise network design and working on a diploma project based on Cisco's three-layer hierarchical network architecture.I would like to understand how network engineers decide which types of network devices are needed i...
