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QoS best practice
Hi,What is best practice config / design for QoS for data center switches? These switches are connected to servers and distribution switches.Should they be configured with as many DSCP as it could be, or let's say 5 would be enough? How about "auto q...
Best Practices for NSO RBAC and AAA Deployment
Explore how Cisco Network Services Orchestrator applies AAA and Role-Based Access Control to secure multivendor automation. The recording details authentication choices—local, public key, token-based for RESTCONF, and external via PAM, RADIUS or LDAP...
N540-24Z8Q2C-M fib scale
We need to replace 2x ASR 9001 routers that are used as internet edge routers (full routing table).Is the N540-24Z8Q2C-M capable of being an internet edge routers? I can find anywhere the FIB scale, even though there are some rumors that it can hold ...
PEM ASR9010 supplying power to the LC slot
Hi Community, We use ASR9010 with 04 PM in 2 PEM.Could you tell me if the ASR9010 PEM 0;1 device has specific power supply requirements for a particular line card slot?
IOS-XRv9k / CML - BGP-LU forwarding issue with LU + VPN label stack
IOS-XRv9k / CML - BGP-LU forwarding issue with LU + VPN label stackHi,I'm testing a sanitized Unified MPLS / BGP-LU topology in CML using IOS-XRv9k and I'm trying to determine whether I'm hitting a platform limitation or if I am missing a configurati...
xrv9k pnetlab
helloi have problem with ios xrv9k that can not start in pnetlab, can anyone help me to solve this problem?
ASR-9902-FC 10Gbps Port Usage
If we want to buy a ASR-9902-FC and only want usage of the 10Gbps ports (for now), is it necessary to buy additional licenses additional to what the router comes with as the base part number? From the datasheets I cannot see that there are any 10Gbp...
XR:NCS5500/ASR9000 Persistent Loadbalancing or "Sticky ECMP"
This document applies to NCS5500 and ASR9000 routers and has been verified as such. Introduction traditional ECMP or equal cost multipath loadbalances traffic over a number of available paths towards a destination. When one path fails, the traffic g...
Sticky ECMP misusage or software bug?
We are trying to achieve the goal of persistent load-balancing with ASR9000. The network is a Data Center based on Kubernetes, where the ASR9000 works as DC gateway for all worker nodes. However, after the link fails toward one worker, the routing ta...
GRE Tunnel Up but Unable to Ping Loopback in One Direction
We are currently facing an issue with GRE tunnel connectivity between two sites.The GRE tunnel is up and appears stable.From Site A, we are unable to ping the primary GRE source loopback at Site B.However, from Site B, we can successfully ping the pr...
ASR9000/XR ABF (ACL Based Forwarding)
IntroductionThe Benefits of ACL Based ForwardingABF ConfigurationDescriptionSolutionConfiguring TrackingNull0 to drop trafficABF Support MatrixLine Cards SupportScale SupportLoad BalancingTroubleshooting Introduction In today’s high performance inter...
NCS5500: Card Ejector switch interrupt
hw-module subslot all ejector-disable. Even after giving the command at CISCO NCS5504 linecards are getting down automatically due to dust. Is there a way to solve this.
XRd BVI Packet forwarding running on Containerlab
Hello everyone,I'm connecting a PE router to a CE router in Containerlab, as shown below I configured a L2VPN bridge-domain and added subinterface along with routed BVI interface, the P2P ip is configured between the CE subinterface and the BVI inter...
BGP EVPN VPWS - Cisco & Juniper - Traffic withdrawn
Hi dear community,I am facing an issue with the following setup :Ping is not OK for the BGP EVPN VPWS Service (Vlan / EVC 20).Here is the configuration of the involed PE :Cisco PE ISR1111:interface GigabitEthernet0/0/1 no ip address negotiation aut...
EVPN IOS-XR standalone interfaces (non-LACP / non-bundle)
Has anyone successfully tested or deployed EVPN Ethernet-Segment multihoming on Cisco NCS540(2x PE's) using the following model?standalone interfaces (non-LACP / non-bundle)dot1q trunk subinterfacesVLAN-based l2transport servicesWe are currently vali...
