For “basic” multicast I have always found that >70% of the problems I troubleshoot end up being the same things over and over and over again.
Thank you, vBrownBag for asking me to present this. It was lots of fun.
Vendor: Cisco
Software version: 12.2(33)SXI7
Hardware: 6509-E
So this is a typical stupid question. How do you add VLANs to a trunk?
Assuming you started with a port with default configuration on it, it would be:
interface switchport switchport mode trunk switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q switchport trunk allowed vlan switchport trunk native vlan
Now, I was interrupted while doing this by someone interjecting and stating categorically, that
switchport trunk allowed vlan ```
Should be:
``` switchport trunk allowed vlan add ```
Not really the way I would do it on a new switchport, but not wanting to hurt feelings I proceeded and saw this:
``` TEST(config-if)#switchport trunk allowed vlan add 10,20,30 TEST(config-if)#do show run int gi9/14 Building configuration...
Current configuration : 279 bytes ! interface GigabitEthernet9/14 description TEST switchport switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q switchport mode trunk shutdown storm-control broadcast level 0.50 storm-control multicast level 0.50 no cdp enable no lldp transmit no lldp receive end ```
To cut a long story short, the switch takes the configuration, but doesn’t apply it. It lead to a lot of head scratching, because you’d think it should work. Switchport state when doing:
``` show interface gi9/14 trunk ```
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Boost your guard! You might need these top cloud security tools.
There has been a lot happening around VIRL the last few weeks. A new release of VIRL just got released and today the VIRL team announced that they are adding support for running VIRL in the cloud.
Cisco has chosen to work together with Packet, a bare metal cloud provider. This is how Packet describes themselves.
At Packet, we're out to build a better internet by supercharging the container revolution with smart, API-driven bare metal. Our platform brings the price and performance benefits of bare metal servers to the cloud, powering highly-available performance workloads through a unique, never-congested network.
The following picture summarizes why Cisco has chosen Packet.
Compared to Amazon AWS, Packet is a bare metal cloud provider which means that the resources you rent will be dedicated to you. Packet does not run any hypervisors, meaning that the workloads are not virtualized.
If you have an existing install of VIRL, you can use Terraform by Hashicorp to provision your new VIRL server at Packet. I had never heard of Terraform before, this is how Hashicorp describes Terraform.
Today we announce Terraform, a tool for safely and efficiently building, combining, and launching infrastructure. From Continue reading
By: Juan Santiago, Director of Product Management
You’ve been there before: You popped into a store and wanted to look something up on your smartphone while waiting in line. However, the cell signal shows just one lousy bar. You consider logging on to Wi-Fi but there are multiple inconvenient steps that aren’t worth the hassle while you’re waiting in line. Nope, you’ll just wait to go back outside and go somewhere else next time.
Why can’t Wi-Fi be as simple as pulling the phone out of your pocket, like cellular? Or, better yet, why can’t cellular just be everywhere Wi-Fi is, including deep inside buildings? The answer lies in a little-known fact about cellular: Your phone company owns the right to use the cellular airwaves everywhere, even if, as in the example above, it’s not actually using them where you happen to be.
You may think that the store, realizing that you may never come back, would be willing to spend a little cash for better cell service, but it can’t. The store doesn’t own the right to use the airwaves inside its walls, thus it must work with each phone company individually to convince them to install a Continue reading
Cisco's Firepower is about threat defense.
Some personal opinions on the character of various open networking projects in the tech industry.
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It doesn’t carry "legacy baggage."
I’ve been in information technology since the early 1990’s, and it’s always been like this: business tells IT what to do, and IT does it. In other words, we make technology mirror business. Which is a fine formula for success, so long as you think business is the engine of innovation. The problem is innovation doesn’t come from one department or place. In fact, innovation most often comes from the intersection of two or more things. Think about it.
When did cars first start being innovative? When they combined the technology that existed in the latest horse drawn carriages with the latest in industrial technology, including internal combustion engines and assembly line production. All three of these came from someplace else—many people don’t know the idea of interchangeable parts came out of the firearms world, rather than the automotive industry. When did innovation come into the Continue reading
New to BGP? This should definitely help! We will connect R1/R2/R3 into the already existing BGP network. We will go step by step through all of this together… me right along side of you in the YouTube in a lab... Read More ›
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