HSRP * Cisco proprietary * 1 Active & 1 standby router & 1 or more listening routers * use virtual ip address as gateway * hello 3 sec & holddown timer 10 sec * we can enable preempt manually (standby 1 preempt) 6) multicast at:224.0.0.2 (ver1), multicast at:224.0.0.102 (ver2). Both versions use udp port 1985 [...]

If in the logging you are getting the error message %TUN-5-RECURDOWN: Tunnel0 temporarily disabled due to recursive routing It means that GRE Router tunnel has found a recursive routing problem. The symptoms of this issue include the continous flapping of tunnel interface as well as EIGRP,OSPF & BGP neighbours when neighbours are over the GRE. [...]

There are three types of BGP Routing tables: a) Adj-RIB-in b) Adj-RIB-out c) Loc-RIB Adj-RIB-in stores the unprocessed information received from its peers. Here the best path selection occurs as per BGP attributes and after conformation path is entered into the local bgp table i.e Loc-RIB. From the local RIB table it conform the next-hop [...]

-If there is a data center outage or power outage, both vPC peers consisting of Nexus 7000 Switches are down. Sometimes, only one of the peers can be restored. Since the other Nexus 7000 is still down, vPC peer-link as well as vPC peer-keepalive link are also down. In this scenario, vPC will not come [...]

Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP) provides redundancy for IP networks, ensuring that user traffic immediately and transparently recovers from first hop router failures, while allowing packet load sharing between a group of redundant routers. GLBP provides load balancing over multiple routers (gateways) using a single virtual IP address and multiple virtual MAC addresses. Each host is [...]

To check the connectivity we can use the IP SLA feature in Cisco IOS which will be constantly pinging the internet address as soon as the icmp check will fail it will change the priority of the route so the traffic will get out through the other link. First we create our IP SLA cinfig. [...]

The Virtual Switching System (VSS) is a clustering technology that combines two Cisco Catalyst 4500 or 6500 Series into a single virtual switch. In a VSS, the data plane of both clustered switches is active at the same time in both chassis. VSS members are connected by virtual switch links (VSLs) using standard Gigabit or 10 Gigabit [...]

On the 3850 switches has embedded wireshark that can be used to packet capture during the troubleshooting this negate the need of SPAN to capture the traffic. -Define your source monitor capture mycap interface GigabitEthernet1/0/1 both -Set your match statement monitor capture mycap access-list myacl monitor capture mycap match ipv4 any any -Set your destination [...]

Two different VTP domains cannot exchange VLAN database information. In fact, splitting a switched network into more VTP domains is one of the few ways how to make one part of the network independent from another with respect to VTP. If two switches are supposed to synchronise their VLAN databases via VTP, they must be [...]

Device management: Show general system-health information –> show system info Show percent usage of disk partitions –> show system disk-space Show the maximum log file size –> show system logdb-quota Show running processes –> show system software status Show processes running in the management plane –> show system resources Show resource utilization in the dataplane –> show running resource-monitor Show the [...]

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series switches can be segmented into virtual devices based on customer requirements. VDCs offer several benefits e.g. fault isolation, administration plane, separation of data traffic, and enhanced security. This logical separation provides the following  benefits: Administrative and management separation Change and failure domain isolation from other VDCs Address, VLAN, VRF, and vPC isolation Each VDC acts as an [...]