Hi all,Recently our core infrastructure was upgraded to use an ACI multi-pod design.I'm entirely new to scripting/automation and connecting to the APIC. I've used some easy postman tutorials so far to help out but postman seems to be less powerful th...
Hi, We're planning a software upgrade for the Nexus 9300 (93180YC-EX) switches in our 2 data centers. However, I'm having a hard time to predict downtime and/or data plane behaviour. We're using a straight-through FEX design with N2K devices. Both ...
Dear,At our data center, we have a new pair of N9K's in a vpc domain, both connecting two downstream FEX switches in straight-through fashion. My concern doesn't relate to the downstream fabric extenders however, but mainly towards the vpc domain. Wh...
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I've recently setup a ASA 5506-X as my main gateway device for my home LAN environment. Thanks to good oob settings on the ASA I managed to set up internet access for my home LAN quite easily but now I need to access my LAN from the outside as we...
Thank you for this clarification. It was a bit misleading to me as well. The main catch is to understand that the L2 loop is no longer possible due to routed links at the distribution layer. I do understand however, why there's some confusion!
Thanks for clarifying where needed. Now I know what to do, basically. But one can safely assume that using soley L2 uplinks towards your L3 firewall is less preferable, though not impossible, correct?Once again, thanks for the straight forward answer...
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They are Fortinet & Palo Alto and they're both in an active/passive setup.Of course the firewall sees the N9K's as a single switch from a layer 2 perspective. However, my concern is mainly to what is actually best practice/recommended by Ci...
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Found this clarifying paragraph in the original internet protocol RFC791 document.
The Time to Live is an indication of an upper bound on the lifetime of
an internet datagram. It is set by the sender of the datagram and
reduced at the poi...
Hello Rahul,
Thanks a lot, it works now. Like the article from petenetive.com says so peculiarly: "it confuses the hell out of a lot of people" :)
Even though I knew what to do on a conceptual level - and having worked on ASA professionally - I didn...
