Monthly Archives: January 2010

Migrating CSM Serverfarms to Other Server VLANs

January 25, 2010
By Aaron Conaway

A coworker wanted to move servers from one tier to another. There's a really simple solution that you may not see since policy is in the way.

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ONT Notes – Queuing

January 23, 2010
By Aaron Conaway

Here are some more notes from my studies.  Of course, no one cares about them but me, but it’s my blog.  I’m sure someone will find it useful.  Please help to correct dumbass mistakes. Congestion Speed mismatch – traffic leaves a lower-bandwidth interface than the one it came in on Aggregation problem – lots...

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ONT Notes – Classification, Marking, and NBAR

January 22, 2010
By Aaron Conaway

Here’s another set of notes from my ONT studies.  I’m sure someone will find it useful.  Please help to correct dumbass mistakes. Classification is done with traffic desriptors Ingress interface CoS value on ISL or 802.1P frames Source/destination IP address IP Precedence or DSCP value MPLS EXP Application type Layer 3 QoS Type of...

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ONT Notes – Intro to QoS

January 20, 2010
By Aaron Conaway

I’ll try to keep it a little shorter this time. Major issues for converged enterprise networks Available bandwidth: competition among applications Fixes Increase bandwidth: More power! Properly queue based on classification and marking: QoS Compress: cRTP, TCP header compression, etc. Delay: Lead time to get a packet to the destination Types of delay Processing...

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ONT Notes – VOIP Networks

January 10, 2010
By Aaron Conaway

Here are some of the notes I’ve been taking while reading over the ONT book. I hope it benefits somebody.  Feel free to correct any stupid mistakes as a paraphrase to avoid a lawsuit. There’s way too much info here.  I’ll refine the process a little better for the next topics. Benefits of Packet...

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CSCtd31622 – CSM, Cookies, and the year 2010

January 8, 2010
By Aaron Conaway

It seems that we have another piece of evidence that Cisco doesn’t like the CSM.  From what I’m able to creatively interpret, the software developers didn’t think anyone would be running the CSM for very long, so they set a variable that expires CSM-inserted cookies at 01:01:50GMT on 1 January 20101.  If you’re using...

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