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HI Guys, I have been asked to look into enabling quality of service onto the Cisco 887 routers at our remote offices. The routers are running c880data-universalk9-mz.150-1.M3 Our critical applications use telnet and ssh then need to be ordered as access to 10.0.80.80 <plus others in the...

Hi guy's I'm looking into applying Broadcast storm control on the Cisco switches within our network. the commands I'm thinking of applying are: errdisable recovery cause storm-control errdisable recovery interval 180 interface xx/xx storm-control broadcast level 20.00 storm-control action...

Thanks Burt, While CiscoWorks' ability to generate a 'Cisco only' network map, which will be great for our NOC, I was looking for a package that would also suffice for compliance with PCI too. Others mapping software I've found today also include Opnet NetMapper, IPSwitch Whatsconnected and...

Hi Guys, Not sure if this is posted in the right place. Does anyone know if there is a network mapping tools/software out there to map just the Cisco switches and routers on an enterprise network. I've look at Solarwinds LANsurveyor, but this shows all vlans too and the map is just too messy...

Thanks Burtsbees, The remote site is a fair way from the local exchange and has always had problematic connectivity.

Hi Guys, I'm looking into an intermittant dsl connectivity issue at a remote site. The site router is a Cisco 837 f/w version c837-k9o3y6-mz.122-8.YN When i issue the command show dsl interface atm 0 What noise margin levels are acceptable for a stable connection Thanks in advance...

I am getting confused with supernetting. Can someone please help. If I need to further subnet off a class c subnet such that Subnet 1 to have 100 hosts Subnet 2 to have 50 hosts Subnet 3 to have 20 hosts Subnet 4 to have 10 hosts subnet 5 to have 10 hosts These fit nicely into the range using...

Many thanks. Thats what I suspected

I looked through the VLAN's we are using and a lot of them are historic. I have reduced the number of VLANs to below the 127 limit and now it's all fine. Many thanks for the help

I have setup syslog on a HP Procurve 2510-24 Switch (J9019b firmware Q11.11) I am not interested in receiving debug or info messages Is there a command on the switch that will enable logging of events at different levels ie Warnings, Critical etc. many thanks

Thanks for the info I guess I've got a bit of reading to do on implementing MST. Our core is a pair of Cisco 6509's - is there a similar limitation on STP instances on these and is there a command to show how many STP instances are active?

I have checked number of vlans on the switch show vlan summary Number of existing VLANs : 127 Number of existing VTP VLANs : 127 Number of existing extended VLANs : 0 Port Mode Encapsulation Status Native vlan Po1 on 802.1q...

I get the following message when attempting to add a vlan to a Cisco 3560 switch "2836: .gmt/bst: Platform limit of 128 STP instances exceeded. No instance created for VLAN213 (port Po1). " Then in the running config the following is added: no spanning-tree vlan 213 Do you get an STP instance...

Many thanks for the help I'll configure PuTTY to send username and add a login banner

Hi, We use the "banner motd" to display an "Authorised users only" banner when logging onto our Cisco switches and routers. When I use telnet to access the routers this banner is shown before the username/password prompt. When logging on using ssh the banner is displayed after entering the...