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September 27, 2011  10:50 AM

Cisco Power Calculator an amazing tool.



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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Currently we are working on the power calculation and the heat dissipation by the Data Center Switches. Rather looking at each individual catalog, I figured out  Cisco Systems are offering a dynamic tool which helps to calculate the total power...

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May 25, 2011  5:17 AM

SUP 720 -3B Supervisor Engine Crashed



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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In my previous post I talked about the crashed Sup 720- 3B supervisor Engine for a Cisco Catalyst 6513 Switch. Since there was no ray of hope for the SUP 720-3B Supervisor Engine and I couldn't...

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May 24, 2011  5:14 AM

SUP 720- 3B failing to boot



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
%DIAG-SP-6-RUN_MINIMUM: Module 7: Running Minimal Diagnostics..., %Software-forced reload, bootflash:, Breakpoint exception, Cisco Catalyst 6500, Cisco Catalyst 6513 Switch, Cisco Systems, Cisco TAC team, Cisco Troubleshooting, Core Switch, CPU signal 23, PC = 0x41D8BE6C, rommom mode, SUP 720- 3B failing to boot, SUP 720-3B is crashed, SUP 720-3B supervisor engine, Supervisor Engine failed, TAC Case, Writing crashinfo to bootflash:crashinfo_20110523-131601

Friends we have a Cisco Catalyst 6513 Switch installed with SUP 720-3B as a supervisor engine. From past 7 years its working fine but suddenly we the SUP 720-3B supervisor Engine failed. The SUP 720-3B is always going in to rommom mode and I am getting the following error

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December 13, 2008  6:27 AM

How to configure an interface to default settings in a Cisco Switch or a Cisco Router?



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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This is a cool command to erase just the configuration for a particular interface in a Cisco Switch or a Cisco Router.

In the following example we will configure the interface fast Ethernet 0/9...

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December 2, 2008  7:30 AM

How to configure SPAN(Switched Port Analyzer ) feature in a Cisco Catalyst Switch



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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It’s quite important for Network Engineers and an essential network troubleshooting technique to utilize the ability of Cisco Catalyst Switches

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November 22, 2008  12:56 PM

How to configure DHCP Snooping in a Cisco Catalyst Switches.



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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 So here we go, with the configuration of DHCP snooping on a Cisco Switch. This feature protects the network by allowing the Cisco Switches to accept DHCP response message only from the authorized servers connected to the trusted interfaces in a Cisco...

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November 20, 2008  7:54 AM

What is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Snooping?



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Snooping is a security feature which filters untrusted DHCP messages, this security feature can protects the devices on the network from associating with an unauthorized DHCP server. When the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol...

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November 12, 2008  12:56 PM

Solution for %IP-4-DUPADDR: Duplicate address error log in your Cisco 6500 Switches running HSRP



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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Dear Friends In

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November 9, 2008  6:51 AM

Don’t panic whenever you see %IP-4-DUPADDR: Duplicate address error log in your Cisco 6500 Switches running HSRP



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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If you are running HSRP and one of your VLAN is down and the following errors are generated in your Switch don’t panic. All this happens due the Trojans in the network.

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October 26, 2008  5:55 AM

In which slot shall we install the Supervisor Engine in Cisco 6500 Series Catalyst Switches -Series1



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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Dear Friends the Cisco 6500 Series Catalyst Switch comes in different models like

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