at that time that voice choppy did have a look at the service policy if it was dropping on the priority queue? Also, i would suggest to look at  the service provider policy if there is one and see how they are setup. on the condtion RX was high, maybe someone was downloading something? ... View more

the cisco T1 CSU/DSu card supports T1 lines. you can ask you provider if the line they provided is a T1. if it is, the WIC card you mentioned will support it. you can also configure the parameters the ISP needs to bring the circuit up. the ISP should have some sort of template for you to follow for the configuration. ... View more

that depends..there are certain providers in some countries in which you will not see multi frame established but ISDN is working fine ... View more

hi, it seems strange to me that the ISP wants to test throughput with a link that is in non production with a packet loss issue. i assume there is no traffic traversing the link since it is in non prod. if there is packet loss have the basics been checked like errors, speed and duplex settings etc? is there qos on the interface and how does packet loss present itself? when you do a normal ping does it have packet loss? those are the questions that come to mind. that aside, you can saturate a link by telnetting into the routers with multiple sessions and with each session you can ping the far end device using large size pings (something like size 15000 to 18024) and using timeout 0. dont be alarmed when you see dots on your pings (example: ................................... something like this). that is normal. you can then check the load of the interface when you do the ping if it gets saturated. hth ... View more

you can use this tool to compare features on IOS: http://tools.cisco.com/ITDIT/CFN/jsp/index.jsp but if you need to check if a partucilar command if it is supported on yor IOS you can do a direct search on the Cisco website using the syntax of the command...hth ... View more

that is a good point. the service provider will definitely have a preference over one link if it is designed as a back up link. i  think the best way to influence the routes is to use a filter and apply it to a route map and add a set as-path to prepend the as path for it to appear longer (less preferred). apply this route map out bound on your Main site. in this way ingress and egress traffic will traverse the link you prefer...hth what we need to know is what we need to filter from the Head Office point of view.  I assume since this is for testing that the source network at the head office will be isolate from the rest of the network. is this correct? we can try filtering via the IP addresses. The prepend must come from the primary (outbound) Head Office  link since we need to influence traffic flow and that is the point where in the service provider PE will do the selection of the best path. ** no need to reconfigure the branch since as path is a mandatory attribute so this will be carried out thru BGP. ... View more

what i think wilson is trying to accomplish is to set a policy to "force" traffic over the back up without failover since he will be testing something and would not want to disrupt the production network..in that case the as-path filter should work. another solution you could use are bgp communities to filter the routes..hth ... View more

that is because most if not all interfaces have a controller..if you waht to see the controller of an interface isse the command sh controller [interface name] ... View more