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Have a problem I am trying to figure out. I am having to pass traffic through a switch that I do not fully manage that has route maps applied on the native VLAN that is used for the trunk I connect over. I have done a lot of searching but could not come up with a definitive answer for my...

In the process of writing some ACL rules, and I am trying to evaluate the existing traffic so I have some Permit IP Log statements to narrow down what normal traffic is going through that I need to write rules for, however, the logs that I am getting do not have port numbers (which I need). Is...

I use 5m SFP+ 10Gb, no issues. I would have to check on the max length, but I think you can do 10 or 15m. The longer the cables, the thicker they get, and harder to route.

This made my day :cool:

The SVI supports overload, just not something that I want to do on this situation. I want a full layer 3 port, not an L2 switch. The HWIC-1FE is what I need =) Thanks!

Is there an ethernet WIC/HWIC that supports NAT for the 2811. I have one 4 port 10/100 card but it doesn't support NAT overload.

New Nexus 7010 came in! thing must weigh 300 pounds!

WNDR3700 is a great router, but you must upgrade the firmware out of the box.

Could you explain how .local addresses are used? I run into them from time to time, but never really had to figure out what/where/why they are used.

I figured it out - DNS was not the issue we use FQDN both forward and reverse look up. The issue was I was did not enable the 'tunneled' mode to the server, so the end client was trying to establish the PCoIP or RDP session directly with the virtual desktop, which for obvious reasons will not...

I have a free 50 seat license of View with my latest enterprise + license pack, so economics, ease of use, and existing experience make View the winner; plus I believe with 4.5 they have fixed a number of the shortcomings you may have run into.

I have View 4.5 up and running, though I have run into an issue with connectivity from outside the network. I have the View Connection server setup, and forwarded ports 80 & 443 to the view connect server inside - this is a temporary setup until we run everything through SSL VPN. I can...

Took me a few days to track down, but in the midst of configuring and troubleshooting a really complicated network transition to facilitate moving our entire datacenter to all new equipment (servers, san, switches) I ended up with a VPC link between the new Nexus switches and the old 6500 core...

Cisco Wireless Calculator will tell you height / range / etc...

We are using Qlogic CNAs so if we decide to do FCoE in the future we can just re-flash them. The TwinAxe SFP+ cables plug right into them.

It's for our virtual environment, all converged on 10GbE. The cables are the TwinAxe SFP+ Copper cables with built in modules; since everything is living within the rack it is much cheaper to go this route. We will get some optical 10Gb SFP SR to link into our 6500 core though.

Playing around with the Nexus 5k before putting into production. Check out that bandwidth

And I am the guy that had $4k in damage done due to lightning coming in over a coax cable through the modem and into the rest of my network. Surge suppression in the midwest is pretty much mandatory. Using high quality protectors prevents your service calls, but not using them at all is a...

You need to setup ports to be access ports to a particular vlan, and not trunk ports with tagged vlans and a native untagged vlan1. Try setting your vlan 2 or vlan 3 as the untagged vlan for the ports you are working with, or find some way to make them access ports (only members of a single vlan).

Could have been some sort of delay with Akami, weird.

I really want to get some 7k's to replace our classic 6500, but it looks like we will only be getting a 6500E chassis so we can re-use our existing gig line cards. The entire data center is going to live on the 5ks and fiber aggregation from the rest of the campus will go through the 6500. Our...

It took a lot of work and fighting to get it in; I don't think we'll get a budget to work with like this again for 7+ years.

You can see the pictures of the N5k above yes?

Ha! I'll get pics, the server hardware is not in yet, and we have to make a final decision on SAN and DR SAN this week. That combined with replacing our firewalls with ASA's and it is the biggest IT budget year I have seen :D The gist of what we are doing - doing a full server / hardware...

Yes, that was terminated and tested with all hardware.

Seconded on 3700 being good.

I think $100 / drop is fairly typical, but that's just been my experience. Unfortunately my builder would not let me drop my own wiring, so yes, I shelled out for the drops.

Humm, and I just bought a WNDR3700 to play with since I was getting so much crap for running DDWRT on Linksys 54GL's. So far I have been very happy with the performance, though I am working through some auto negotiation issues on the gig ports. It goes without saying to upgrade the firmware...

Hardware Porn! Humm, some pretty Cisco boxes What could be in here? Woo Hoo! My Nexus 5k's came! Will post data center pictures before/after. Going to a 100% virtual environment.

I have been looking at these; APC recommends still using end point protection in combination with a whole house. They are only about $200 so I may put on in.

Ha, I just got a notice on my door from the water department that my meter has stopped registering any water usage. Guess I lost that too.

I wanted to vent some frustration more than anything else, so here goes and hopefully someone else can learn from this. As a network engineer and all around geek I have a ton of hardware running around my house, and knowing it's value I have everything in my house except for lights on either...

Leave an ethernet cable at the checkout location for first sign on?

Damn! you beat me by maybe 10 seconds.

Pretty easy, on your computer that has dual network connections, give it a static ip configuration, and do not give it a gateway address on the connection that it is not supposed to access the internet via. Do configure the default gateway on the NIC you want it to use to access the internet...

Just set it up as a PPP Multilink, there are many configuration guides out there.

ESET AV + Windows FW is my choice for running things on my M$ machines. I have had issues with Smart Security firewall before as well.

I am using freshbooks, but I keep a small client list, and consult as supplemental income to buy tech toys with, and keep my training / certification up to date.

It can be higher, but still stick with ~500 as a max (lower if you can) because some old device will eventually find it's way onto the network and croak from all of the management / broadcast traffic, unless you are doing some heavy handed vlan filtering

I have a Qnap 509 pro, 239 pro, and 109 pro; all working well.