I am trying to get a 4 x 1GbE LAG group connected between a server with Broadcom 5709C GigE interfaces, and four 1GbE ports on a blade on my Cat4506-E. The server NICs are running the most current versions of the Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BASC) and the most current versions of the Broaddcom drivers.   Additionally, the Cat4506-E is running the most current platform supported version The BASC utility offers the option of setting up an the LACP group as either  "Link Aggregation" or as "Generic Trunking (FEC/GEC)/802.3ad-Draft Static". Given that these are the two LACP options available for configuring the Broadcom driver for LACP, should the channel-group mode for the GigE ports on the 4506-E be configured for 'mode active' or 'mode on'? And are there any best practice examples for how to best configure the LACP channel between these particular OEM NICs and the 4506-E? ... View more

Is there a way to have the default "Cisco" logo that appears on the display of the Cisco 7911 IP phones, automatically replaced with custom grayscale image, without the end user having to manually do anything? ... View more

Is there a single command that can pull an inventory list of what IP phone load my IP phones are using, so I can determine if I have IP phones with phone loads that are too old to be upgraded to the most currrent phone load version? Additionally, if I do have phones are are on an IP phone load that's too old to be directly upgraded to the latest version, is there a matrix of what interim phone load versions are required in order to upgrade them to a version that CAN be upgraded to the most current IP phone load version? I am running CUE 8.6 (latest build). ... View more

I am attempting to do a brand new install of CME 8.6 on a C2951 router.   The full file set comes as a .zip file.   Do I need to unzip the file locally on my tftp server first, and then copy everything over to flash on the router, or is there an archive command I should issue from the router itself, in order to have the files unzipped in their correct directory heirarchy into flash: on the router? If I need to unzip and copy the directory as a whole to the router, what would the proper copy tftp: flash: command be for that? ... View more