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MatthewW98 · 10-16-2025

We are in the process of upgrading a VPC pair of N7K's and have one upgraded and moving on to the second. We are trying to isolate the second switch to upgrade it, and part of that would be shutting down the peer-link and KA. I can't find an official...

MatthewW98 · 04-28-2025

I understand that RT's are extended communities and how they work with importing and exporting into a VRF on PE rotuers. However, what I am confused about is the VPN label that is added when being transported through the MPLS domain. What I have gath...

MatthewW98 · 12-24-2024

Is there a way to see how long a learning path is available to access for free in Cisco U? I am in progress with the "Understanding Cisco Network Automation Essentials" and would like to complete it to get the learning credits, but also want to spend...

MatthewW98 · 10-22-2024

I am looking for some ideas for the best way to tunnel layer 2 traffic. It would need to be very inexpensive and easy to setup/manage.Background:I work in a hospital where the network used to be completely layer 2 with about 130 VLANs. A couple of ye...

MatthewW98 · 05-09-2024

So something weird was happening when we were setting up a VPN connection yesterday (tunnel is up now and passing traffic). Here is a diagram of our topology:(10.26.0.0/16)--ASA-1-------------ASA-2--(192.168.1.0)So our tunnel didn't come up right awa...

MatthewW98 · 10-16-2025

I have seen that document, so I will provide some more context on the current plan. The previously upgraded switch is now operating as primary, operational secondary (switch 1), and the switch we need to upgrade is secondary, operational primary (swi...

MatthewW98 · 04-29-2025

I think what is happening is that edge 01 still has a default route in its routing table from edge 02 (while DIA 1 is offline), because it has that default route, it will continue to advertise its own default route.

MatthewW98 · 10-23-2024

I agree with you on this as the best option as it doesn't require a re-design of a lot of things. Thanks for the input!

MatthewW98 · 10-23-2024

" The "simplest" way to span VLANs across wiring closets? Bridge those VLANs at L2 from the closet access switches all the way across the Nexus switches. That is, do not terminate those VLANs into L3 on the access switches before transporting across ...

MatthewW98 · 10-23-2024

Here is the topology:We have roughly 20 closets connecting to the Nexus switches in this fasion, and they would all need to transport each VLAN. I said we have 130 VLANs, but I think only about 20 are actually used.

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