RTP Flow Monitor
I thought I made a post about this a while ago, but it turns out I never got back around to it :-). While I have a lot of issues with Cisco at the moment ....
Author: Rishard Chapoteau
Nexus 9000 Queue drops
This particular post won't have a resolution to the problem I'm currently experiencing but I want to illustrate the problem now and HOPEFULLY have another blog that actually has the resolution later if Cisco ever ....
No More Tree-Sid
A lot is changing right now with our Next Gen Backbone lab. Its been up and in full swing for a bit. Due to Covid I haven't been in the office to take advantage of ....
5K / 2K FEX issues
I like the general idea of using a Fex because it makes my life easier 99% of the time in having a central management point for all of my connectivity. Having our 5K's VPC'd together ....
IGMP Messages
Recently in troubleshooting an issue I saw some odd IGMP messages that I had never seen before. One of the record types was called "block-old-sources". From RFC 3376 It states BLOCK OLD SOURCES: Indicates that ....
In Band / Out of Band
I've been working with Cisco on the our Next Gen backbone build with Segment Routing and Crossworks Optimization Engine and keep coming across stumbling blocks which is unfortunate. Crossworks function is to communicate to XR-PCE ....
Don’t tell me what I can’t do
Today my company and Cisco had a giant kickoff meeting for the Next Gen Backbone, and it mostly went well, but there was a lot of Cisco giving us bad news in how we can't ....
I’m back
I haven't updated in forever, but I'm going to make time to do this again. In my life recently since I've posted last I had a new baby which as all you parents know will ....
Python
Just wanted to make a post on the fact that I'm starting to try to teach myself Python. I had an employee working for me that was learning Python on the job here. He created ....
show ip igmp event-history
During a late night troubleshooting session I came across this command on my Cisco Nexus switches. show ip igmp event-history debug may be a life saver when troubleshooting Multicast issues. I wish I had known ....