Its been a while we have been talking about netconf and trying to convince the masses that NETCONF is going to replace SNMP in coming days. This is presented vendors with a huge need of integrating NETCONF support in their gear. Mostly all the new releases from all the major vendor support this protocol and … More Advance Netconf explorer(ANX): A Complete NETCONF tool
Streaming telemetry is the next big thing in network monitoring. Mostly all the vendor found it immensely powerful and quickly integrated it with the devices they had. Streaming telemetry is becoming popular because of following key differences it has in comparison to the SNMP based model. It relies of PUSH rather than PULL model. Which … More Streaming Telemetry : Cisco IOS-XR and Pipeline
Hello Folks, Have you seen other blogs in MPLS series? If not then I definitely recommend you to check it. MPLS Basic configuration and MPLS QOS MPLS QOS Cisco MPLS VPN(L3VPN) GNS3 Configuration Example and Explanation Introduction: In this blog I am going to discuss about the L2VPN or also known as xConnect virtual circuits. … More Cisco MPLS L2VPN (xConnect) GNS3 Configuration Example and Explanation
Hello Friends, Did you get chance to go through my basic MPLS configuration blog ? If not then please go through this article for basic understanding of MPLS In this blog I am going to take the discussion further and talk about the various application of MPLS network. To understand this better you need to … More Cisco MPLS VPN(L3VPN) GNS3 Configuration Example and Explanation
Do you know that Cisco IOS has evolved? Do you know that you can run applications on your Cisco router?? Do you know this doesn’t involve any additional license ?? Well………!! all this is true and very exciting. You must try the new guesshell available on Cisco routers .It gives immense power to you and … More Script : Enabling Cisco guest-shell and running python scripts on Cisco router
If you are a network admin or network engineer then you would know the pain of configuration backups.Suddenly one day you will see one of your router died without any prior issues or errors. And guess what, this is the remote site that you have not logged in since last 6 months. Since this is … More Script: Cisco Device configuration backup with Python
Cisco discovery protocol(CDP) is very important while configuration and troubleshooting the network. In most of the Network devices nowadays, CDP is disabled by default because of security reasons and you need to enable it manually. Enabling CDP is easy and it doesn’t take much, however when CDP needs to be enabled on EFP(ethernet flow point) … More Cisco ASR 900 Ethernet flow point(Bridge domain): Enabling CDP -2
Ethernet flow point(EFP) or also called “Service instance” is widely used and well known feature for implement bridging on ASR devices. In service provider domain it is very important to assign tags to traffics and the most easiest way to do it is with the help of VLAN tags. In asr900 devices sub-interface are not … More Cisco ASR 900 Ethernet flow point(Bridge domain) and BDI configuration example- 1
In my previous blog we have seen the procedure to upgrade the ASR 903 router in ISSU mode. Now in this blog I will explain how to boot ASR903 router in subpackage mode. In order to upgrade the router in subpackage mode we need to use some extra commands than the traditional method of upgrade. … More Cisco ASR 903 sub-package mode router upgrade
Cisco ASR900 series is a popular platform in service provider domain. If you remember the famous 7600 platform, ASR 900(ASR903/907and 914) is next generation to it. Majorly these devices are classified as SP access platforms. ASR 903 routers are known for high speed data plane(forwarding) because of the ASIC based data plane architecture. In this … More Cisco ASR 903 Series router ISSU upgrade