Sir Xander,   A quick (and perhaps simple) one for you on the topic.   Does the platform only exports ends Src and Dst AS info to the collectors (with relevant config in place) or is it also possible to export entire AS path ?   Regards RC ... View more

Hey Xander,   A quick query, as simple n stupid as it may sound. So the "load-balancing flow" cli (and flow-label ofcourse) tweaks on the flow label creation which will be used by P routers. What are the ways to load-balance at PE routers ? - say if we have 2 PW b/w back to back routers and there's no P router in between ? ... View more

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Thanks much, where does SPAN fits in this order ? ... View more

Hi Xander, A very useful doc as always. Can you please advise if its possible to tunnel LLDP across L2VPN on ASR using this as well ? ... View more

Thats strange, it should have been subnet broadcast. ... View more

Depends on vtp version. In v2, if domain name matches, vtp updates are passed through vtp transparent device, else we see this message and no updates are passed through. V1 doesnt looks after domain name at all and doesnt let updates got through itself. HTH Raj ... View more

Hi Craig, I can suggest you to gor for FWSM and IDSM2. Lots of pros, and might be a few cons here. You get high bandwidth connectivity, lower power consumption, reduced rack space, common management etc. Cos can be too uncommon to occur like everything going down to the whole chassis going down or power supplies going bad etc. I think its a smart decision and the way to go. HTH Raj ... View more

Probably these two bugs should be of interest to you. CSCse93511 CSCsb72854 SO, it seems the bug is fixed in sxf12, this means going forward from SXF12 onwards, you should not see this issue. Check the flash, sup-bootdisk or wherever you had your configs and try to retrieve and reload the configs. HTH Raj ... View more

Craig, The difference is literal, really. The tagged frames has a VLAN_ID tag to be identified from within the trunk carrying multiple vlans, whereas native vlan or untagged frames are not tagged, to maintain compatibiltiy with the devices that do not understand tags. It should e "trunk" on Linksys side as well. HTH Raj ... View more

Try this, no boot sys all boot system sup-bootdisk: wr mem verify - sh boot reload This is a bug from previous versions, but it is said to have been fixed in 12.2.32 SXH2a. You might have to open a SR with tac if this doesnt works. HTH Raj ... View more

RSTP or RPVST+ is definitely a good buy over PVST anytime. It has various STP optimisations inbulit and significantly reduces the convergence times. HTH Raj ... View more

While it'll be much easier to just implement different ip space for both the deptt, if you're not doing it for some administrative reasons, its understandable. For VACL/Mac ACL: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps646/products_configuration_example09186a0080470c39.shtml HTH Raj ... View more

For IOS: vk1-ac1-6506(config)#logging ? Hostname or A.B.C.D IP address of the logging host alarm Configure syslog for alarms buffered Set buffered logging parameters buginf Enable buginf logging for debugging cns-events Set CNS Event logging level console Set console logging parameters discriminator Create or modify a message discriminator event Global interface events exception Limit size of exception flush output facility Facility parameter for syslog messages history Configure syslog history table host Set syslog server IP address and parameters ip IP configuration listen MWAM remote console and logging listen enabler monitor Set terminal line (monitor) logging parameters on Enable logging to all enabled destinations origin-id Add origin ID to syslog messages rate-limit Set messages per second limit reload Set reload logging level source-interface Specify interface for source address in logging transactions system enable/disable System Event Log trap Set syslog server logging level ... View more