2013年11月25日星期一

Cisco released the next generation NCS core router

On November 21st, held a "core router Cisco" next generation conference in China, launched the Tlevel of NCS core router series, the products have been released in September this year. Butas recently in June, Cisco has just released the CRS family of the last product, the 400G corerouter CRS-X. First, Cisco released two - generation products so rapidly, the CRS family three product release interval was 6 years, 3 years.
The release of the NCS family consists of three products, NCS 2000, NCS 4000, NCS 6000,which supports single slot 100G, 400G, 5T capacity, programmability and virtualization support,can help telecom operators to accelerate the transition to SDN/NFV.

The Network Covergence System (NCS) is a set of systems aimed at the service-providernetwork so don 't get all excited about tying it to Insieme, the spin-in that' s developing a hugeswitch (or something) for the data center. Insieme 's launch is still pending, probably untilNovember, it now appears.

The NCS line, being introduced Tuesday, includes a few products:
The NCS 6000 is the aforementioned core router, shipping today with available 1 Tb/s cards(ten 100Gb/s interfaces) and an eventual capacity of 5 Tb/s per slot, Cisco claims. (LightReading broke the story about this system in June, based on a document that called it theCTR.)
The NCS 4000, a smaller box for positions closer to the network edge; it supports 400 Gb/s perslot. This one 's not shipping until the first half of 2014
The NCS 2000, which isn 't a router at all but is part of the optical network (a reconfigurableoptical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM), if you have to know It s shipping today.').
The company said its Network Monitor tool can identify more than 1700 applications for in-depthanalysis by performing deep-packet inspection, and uses a variety of classification methods todetermine the true identity of the application and detect potentially damaging suspicious datatransfers, network usage policy violations and advanced attacks.
Network Monitor also captures full Layer 2 through 7 packet headers and payloads from eachsession for a complete record of network activity, as well as packet metadata with the SmartFlowfeature, which can deliver a real-time data feed to LogRhythm SIEM.
Cisco is using the NCS 6000 and 4000 as the vanguard in the company 's strategy for SDN andNFV in the carrier network. You can think of it as Cisco extending the fabric beyond the datacenter, something that large carriers are interested in seeing, says Ray Mota, an analyst withACG Research.
Cisco is not yet announcing any ready-made applications to run on the nPower X1, nor isitannouncing any programming services to help service providers create
applications.

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2013年11月21日星期四

Cisco 2960-S: Problems of Network Issues with Linux Bonding


I'm sure you will want more information, but to start, please see the configs here:

Server (Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 \n \l):

/etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet manual

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet manual

auto eth3
iface eth3 inet manual

auto eth4
iface eth4 inet manual

auto eth5
iface eth5 inet manual

auto bond0
iface bond0 inet static
        address 10.1.4.15
        netmask 255.255.0.0
        network 10.1.0.0
        broadcast 10.1.255.255
        gateway 10.1.1.1
        bond_mode 802.3ad
        bond_miimon 100
        bond_downdelay 200
        bond_updelay 200
        slaves eth4 eth5

auto bond1
iface bond1 inet manual
        bond_mode 802.3ad
        bond_miimon 100
        bond_downdelay 200
        bond_updelay 200
        slaves eth2 eth3

auto br0
iface br0 inet manual
        #bridge_ports bond1
        #bridge_stp off
        #bridge_fd 0
        #bridge_maxwait 0
        pre-up ip link set bond1 down
        pre-up brctl addbr br0
        pre-up brctl addif br0 bond1
        pre-up ip link set bond1 up
        pre-up ip link set br0 up
        post-down ip link set br0 down
        post-down brctl delbr br0


C2960S-STACK (four Cisco 2960S with fiber interconnection)

Current config:

***#sh conf
Using 6326 out of 524288 bytes

version 12.2
no service pad
service timestamps debug datetime msec
service timestamps log datetime msec
no service password-encryption

hostname ***

boot-start-marker
boot-end-marker

enable secret 5 ***
enable password ***

no aaa new-model
switch 1 provision ws-c2960s-48ts-l
switch 2 provision ws-c2960s-48ts-l
switch 3 provision ws-c2960s-48ts-l

crypto pki trustpoint TP-self-signed-1561874560
 enrollment selfsigned
 subject-name cn=IOS-Self-Signed-Certificate-1561874560
 revocation-check none
 rsakeypair TP-self-signed-1561874560

crypto pki certificate chain TP-self-signed-1561874560
 certificate self-signed 01 nvram:IOS-Self-Sig#3030.cer
spanning-tree mode pvst
spanning-tree extend system-id

vlan internal allocation policy ascending

interface FastEthernet0
 no ip address

interface Vlan1
 no ip address
 shutdown
!
ip http server
ip http secure-server
!
line con 0
line vty 0 4
 password ***
 login
line vty 5 15
 password ***
 login
!
End

The bond configuration was working in active/backup mode on some old dell switches at the old companies' location.

Suggestion:
You're using LACP on the servers, so you need to use LACP on the Cisco switch too.
On the stack master, enter the following configuration...


That will configure an EtherChannel using LACP on ports 1/0/1, 2/0/1, 3/0/1 and 3/0/2.  Substitute the ports numbers with the actual port numbers.


2013年11月20日星期三

SF300-24P Versus Cisco WS-C2960-24PC-L, How to Solve

Question: Is there a best practice as far as selecting a POE switch for a small office with 14 users? Cisco makes several SMB model available and I am not sure if the WS-C2960-24PC-L is overkilled for my environment. I have one avaya VoIP phone, two APs, and some PCs. I need QoS feature on the switch for the Avaya phone. Thanks.


Answer: Of course the 2960 will give better performance but usually for larger networks. the SMB models were desinged with smaller networks in mind. For example i have 5 SMB switches in my current evironment and we have great throughput on our network. In my previous environment i had over 100 29XX models and it was fine.But in my previous network the SMB models would not have been able to handle it. For a small network the SF300 is perfect and affordable. You should have no issues as far as performance.
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Cisco WS-C2960S-24TD-L Datasheet and Price

Cisco WS-C2960S-24TD-L Datasheet

24 Ethernet 10/100/1000 ports
2 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 2 1 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ uplink ports
Optional Cisco FlexStack stacking support
LAN Base image
Stackable switch, use C2960S-STACK
Forwarding bandwidth: 88 Gbps
Switching bandwidth: 176 Gbps
Forwarding Rate(64-Byte Packet): 65.5 mpps
Dimensions (H x W x D): 4.5 x 44.5 x 30 CM
Weight: 4.3 KG
The Cisco Catalyst 2960-S Series Switches are fixed-configuration Gigabit Ethernet switches that provide enterprise-class Layer 2 switching for campus and branch access applications. They enable reliable and secure business operations with lower total cost of ownership through a range of innovative features including FlexStack, Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+), and Cisco Catalyst SmartOperations.




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2013年11月18日星期一

Queation about the connection of Cisco WS-C2960S-24TS-S

Question: I am about to purchase a EMC VNXe3150 with dual controllers.  I'd like to have redundant switches.  I was looking at the WS-C2960S-24TS-S which comes with LAN entry lite feature set. 
Will I be able to connect two nic ports from each of 2 hyper-v hosts and two nic ports from each SAN controller to each switch and have 4Gbps connectivity from HOST to SAN using LACP?   Will the switches need to be connected to each other?  Using LACP?
If one switch fails would each server still have 2 Gbps connectivity to the SAN?  Could you provide more detail as to what is involved in the setup?

Answer: With iSCSI you would generally use MPIO rather than LACP etc. In general you don't get all paths in use for a single LUN but if you use multiple LUNs then round robin will assign a 1Gb path to the first LUN (say your E: drive) and a second path to the second LUN (say F:). Dependant on your iSCSI initiator LACP may not be supported. Not sure if the VNXe supports trunking rather than MPIO either.


BTW, it's not a SAN Cisco Switch just because you're running iSCSI over it, it's really just an Ethernet/LAN switch but that's just me being pedantic.

2013年11月14日星期四

Question about IOS of Cisco C2960S-STACK

Question: Cisco C2960S-STACK with enterprise IOS. I'd like to add 3 more. But this time., I'd like to get the recommended 3 2960X with IP Base IOS. From my understanding, all the switches have to have the same IOS. To keep the cost down, I'd like to get everything with IP Base. I am just wondering if there will be any problem as far as incompatibility.

Answer: When different versions of IOS are detected, the stack member switches will use the stack master's verion of IOS to prevent version mismatch issues.  Just make sure to power on the master switch first and let it get up and running before connecting and powering on the member switches, the stack members will then join the master and use its IOS vesion.
More information refer to http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps6406/white_paper_c11-578928.html , details for Cisco Catalyst 2960-S FlexStack..

Cisco FlexStack stacking for Cisco Catalyst 2960-S Series Switches provides a true stacking solution with all switches in a FlexStack stack acting as a single switching unit. FlexStack provides a unified data plane, and single configuration for a group of stacked Cisco Catalyst 2960-S switches.
Stacking Ethernet switches reduces the network administrator's total cost of ownership. The cost of maintaining the network is decreased because there are fewer devices to manage, and the network uptime is increased with built-in redundancy.


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Cisco expects that revenue fells in second quarter : Point on market demand

Beijing morning news on November 14th, the United States of America Cisco network equipment supplier on Wednesday warned, the company's second quarter revenue felt 8% to 10%, in order to tumble 10% in after hours trading.
Cisco said, in the first quarter of October 26th, the company had revenue of $12090000000, compared with the same period last year $11880000000 growth 2%, lower than the averageanalyst expectations of $12340000000. The company forecast the quarter revenue growth is 3% to 5%.
Cisco stock market after hours trading Wednesday on the NASDAQ fell 10.36%, to $21.51. The stock on the Nasdaq stock market trading to close at 23.99 U.S. dollars, since August, issued aquarterly has fallen 9%.
Cisco first quarter profit fell to $2000000000, the amount of earnings per share of $0.37, the same period last year were $2090000000 and $0.39.
Excluding non normal items, earnings per share of the company's $0.53, exceeded analysts on average expected $0.51. Cisco said, the company's new profit included because Augustannounced 4000 job cuts and included in the $237000000 pre tax expenses.
Cisco CEO John Chambers (John Chambers) said, the weak performance of energy demand inemerging markets such as China's weakness. Because the United States governmentmonitoring behavior produced a bad influence in China, so where the enterprises in the purchase of Cisco products become more hesitant.
Cisco said, because China and other emerging market demand, and the United States government comes on the impact of corporate expenses, resulting in the first quarter of the company's revenue growth is not expected.
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2013年11月11日星期一

How to configure ACL on Cisco 2960 switch

The ACL configuration of Cisco 2960 switch, I use the WS-C2960S-24TS-L most time.
The basic configuration:
SW1> en; enter privilege mode
SW1# conf T; enter global configuration mode
SW1 (config hostname SW1) # hostname setting switch;
SW1 (config) enable secret Cisco #; privileges encrypted password
SW1 (config) enable password Cisco #; non password privileges
SW1 (config) line console 0 #; access control stage
SW1 (config-line login) #; allowed to log on
SW1 (config-line password cisco1) #; set password XX
SW1 (config) line vty 04 #; enter virtual terminal
SW1 (config-line login) #; allowed to log on
SW1 (config-line password cisco2) #; set password XX
SW1# exit; return command
The ACL configuration of Cisco 2960 switch
Exchange of visits between /*vlan3 and vlan5, between vlan4 and vlan5 exchange between vlan3 and vlan4, prohibit visits.
SW5 (config) access-list permit IP 192.168.3.0 # 101 0.0.0.255 192.168.5.0 0.0.0.255
SW5 (config) access-list permit IP 192.168.4.0 # 102 0.0.0.255 192.168.5.0 0.0.0.255
SW5 (config) access-list permit IP 192.168.5.0 # 103 0.0.0.255 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255
Application to the VLAN port **************** **************** ACL
SW5 (config) int VLAN 3 #
SW5 (config-if) IP access-group 101 in #
SW5 (config) int VLAN 4 #
SW5 (config-if) IP access-group 102 in #
SW5 (config int f0/24) #
SW5 (config-if) IP access-group 103 in #
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2013年11月6日星期三

Application of Cisco Catalyst 2960

Cisco Catalyst 2960 series intelligent Ethernet switch is a fixed configuration of new,independent equipment series, desktop 10/100/1000 and fast Ethernet Gigabit Ethernet connections, which can provide enhanced LAN services for entry-level enterprise, mid market and branch network.
Cisco Catalyst 2960 series intelligent Ethernet switch is a fixed configuration of new,independent equipment series, desktop 10/100/1000 and fast Ethernet Gigabit Ethernet connections, which can provide enhanced LAN services for entry-level enterprise, mid market and branch network.
Function:
Provides the intelligent characteristic of the edge of the network, such as advanced access control list (ACL) and enhanced security features.
Double medium uplink port provides Gigabit Ethernet uplink flexibility, can use copper or fiber optic uplink port. Each pair of medium uplink port has a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port and an SFP Gigabit Ethernet port, wherein the activation in the use of a port, but not at the same time, the use of these two ports.
By means of advanced QoS, accurate rate limiting, ACL and multicast service, the realization of the network control and bandwidth optimization.
Through various authentication methods, data encryption technology and based on networkaccess user, port and MAC address control, the realization of the network security.
Through the embedded device manager and Cisco network assistant, simplify the networkconfiguration, upgrading and troubleshooting, a part can be used as the middle market or the branches of the solution.
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