The crash core file name includes, amongst other text, the card number, cpu number, and the time in hex. While the output from show crash number X displays the actual friendly date/time, the actual log entry, IF you have access to it, will show the t...

LAG (Link Aggregation) SNMP traps that represent a switch from one LAG group of ports to the other, in and of themselves, do not indicate which actual set of LAG ports has become the active (distributing) ports. Here is an example of the traps, along...

The terms Public versus Private IP pools, while simple to understand, may be confusing if one attempts to apply those terms to the internet routability of the addresses in such pools being defined as such (public versus private, etc.).A Public IP poo...

The NAT (Network Address Translation) feature of ASR5K allows for many subscribers having been assigned their own private ip addresses to share a single publically routable IP address for accessing the internet, in order to conserve on precious publi...

discusses configuring PPP data and IP header compression, sample trace, monitoring and counting compression sessions PPP IP header compression and PPP data compression are both configured in the PDSN in the subscriber profile and are both negotiated...