Questions tagged [arista]
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MPLS L3 VPN, issue with customers pinging
I created the MPLS L3 VPN architecture(screenshot in the link at the end of the post) using ARISTA vEOS images, then I got a problem with network reachability between the CE client routers. please ...
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snmp bandwidth utiliazation on Arista
Has anyone succeeded with getting bandwidth utilization on the subinterfaces in Arista switch:
Arista DCS-7280CR2A-30-F
Hardware version: 21.01
Because, in my situation, it is only working at the ...
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Unlock 3rd party transceivers on Arista switches
Is there a way to unlock third-party transceivers on an Arista DCS-7050QX-32S-F running version 4.24.0F? I've experimented with a few widely-recognized solutions, but it appears they're no longer ...
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How to connect multiple ports as a single connection (Arista 7050sx3-48yc8 to HP Aruba 5412Rzl2 Backbone)
Environment:
Arista 7050sx3-48yc8 (two units)
HP Aruba 5412Rzl2 (backbone)
the backbone has an 8 port 10g module (two modules: 8x2=16 ports)
the sfps on arista and hp side are all 10g
We have an HP ...
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ARista 7280SR-48C6 routing table size
i want to use a 7280SR-48C6 as edge switch and i read arista datasheet but i could not find how many ipv4 and ipv6 it can hold. can i have 4-5x IP transits with full tables and 30-40x private peering ?...
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input discards on Arista 7124SX-F
im seeing input discards on one of our uplink on Arista SW
if i run sh platform fm4000 interface ethernet 22 counters verbose command it is showing smp0DropPkts which is equal to the input discards.
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Unable to configure BGP on Arista DCS-7048T-A
I am, admittedly, rather lacking in networking knowledge. However, I managed to learn quite a lot of server and development skills through trial & error and by asking various people/forums. I hope ...
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Inconsistent behavior of link aggregation
I'm testing bandwidth between two switches and I noticed link aggregation behaves inconsistently between test runs. I'm testing with a single instance of iperf with 2 streams. Sometimes the load is ...
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Arista vEOS and EVE-NG setup
I have EVE-NG up and running and Have successfully imported an Arista EOS image. Connected a couple of VPCS to it. But I can't seem to get them to ping each other. I did assign IPs to the VPCS for ...
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What is the appropriate VLAN configuration for this?
We have a group of clients connects to a Arista switch with DHCP enabled. And we want to setup an additional private VLAN so that those clients can communicate to each other through pre-defined static ...
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Arista 7050 Ipv6 problem
I have 2x Arista 7050S in MLAG configuration and I configured IPv6 on them,
IPv6 unicast routing is enabled, and I assigned 2aXX:XX:1::100/120 to interface vlan 80 and here is the interface vlan ...
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How can I obtain SNMP OID from Arista in right way?
What is right way for obtain Oid from Arista?
I need obtain temperature from the switch. From this I find out that CPU sensor OID is .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.100006001:
switch#show snmp mib walk .1 | grep &...
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Problems when configuring VLAN on Arista vEOS Router
I'm setting up a network on GNS3 with the end goal of configuring VxLAN. I routed 3 Arista vEOS router together and each of them has a host attached. With basic L3 routing, everything works. I need ...
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arista pbr - set ip default nexthop
i have arista 7050s-52 and here is my config :
policy-map type pbr pbr-tun
10 class pbr-tun-acl
set nexthop 172.x.x.x
class-map type pbr match-any pbr-tun-acl
10 match ip access-group ...
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How to use the first four Ethernet ports on Arista 7050QX-32S?
I'm trying to configure an Arista 7050QX-32S switch and basically the first 4 ports are missing on the switch.
This model is a full 40GbE switch and there's four 10GbE interfaces for convenience ...
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System default switchport shutdown on Arista EOS
Is there any equivalent to:
system default switchport shutdown
As available on Cisco's NX-OS to Arista EOS running with at least version 4.25.1F?
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What prevents a device from receiving its own multicast stream, and can it be turned off?
I know that it is normally not possible for a device to receive its own multicast stream on the same network interface where it transmitted said stream. I also understand why this is sensible, and ...
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Arista adding multiple route-map match interfaces?
on Cisco, I could do the following,
route-map abc permit 10
match interface Vlan1 Vlan2 Vlan3
set metric-type type-1
But seems on Arista EOS I could only add one match interface, how could I add ...
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Arista MLAG: should I have a separate L3 interface for keepalive like in Cisco's NX-OS?
In Cisco's NX-OS when forming the MLAG equivalent pair (vPC) there are some best practices to follow, for example, a separate bonded L3 interface just for the keepalive packets using separate ports ...
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Arista Automation Script 7050S
I have a arista 7050S as a backup for a n3k-c3064pq-10gx i want to have an script in arista to ping the n3k-c3064 mgmt IP and if it has 4 or 5 timedout then no shut interface vlan 100-150 , can any ...
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Arista 7050S BGP Over Management Port not working
i have an Arista 7050s with eos 4.18.1.1F and i have bgp over my management port with my management router (its a VPN router that out staff connect to this router and use our internal router)
here is ...
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Arista 7050S Management port problem
i have a arista 7050s and i have connect management port to a cisco 3750 and i see the port is up in 3750 but its down in arista ! here is the output from arista:
Management1 is down, line protocol is ...
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Arista 7050S can handle 600x SVI?
i have read Arista 7050S datasheet and everything is fit on my project, but i could not find anywhere that if 7050S can handle 500x SVI ?
can any one guide me?
thank you.
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Arista 7050S-52
I have a Arista 7050S-52 and i have read its datasheet but i could not find much information,
i have around 600 interface vlan, 3k ipv4 routes, 6x bgp neighbor with no full table, some simple access ...
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Arista and "Unparalleled Performance with Dynamic Deep Buffers and VOQ for Lossless forwarding"
Arista advertises "Unparalleled Performance with Dynamic Deep Buffers and VOQ for Lossless forwarding". My employer is trialing a switch which advertises gigabytes of port buffers. How are these ...
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BGP local-as command clarification
On my network infrastructure, an Arista switch is the core switch and a pfsense server the gateway. BGP is used to advertise routes for all the internal networks. On Arista switch, I see the BGP ...
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Arista VXLan with QinQ
I've got a weird situation. Three doctors offices are merging in two cities and we are planning on merging them into one building in each city. Due to politics and crappy software each office will ...
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vpc/mlag block half of uplink?
We want to configure 2 Arista switches by mlag and connect 1 port channeled switch to both of arista's. so in this case, if one of our arista fail the other one will respond.
now my question here is ...
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Two switches, one uplink - best way to link them?
Overview
I have two Arista 7050SX switches. They don't support stacking. But I essentially will be using them as a stacked pair none the less (just means managing two individual switches).
They're ...
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Arista switch - getting chassis ID of currently logged in switch
I can not find how can i check local switch Chassis ID. here i found that command:
show lldp local-info management 1
should show me what i want but there is no "local-info" option. Is there any ...
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Difference between port-channel lacp fallback individual VS. static?
What is the exact difference between:
port-channel lacp fallback individual
port-channel lacp fallback static
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Confused about switch configuration with 2 VLANs, and next hop route?
I have an Arista switch I'm trying to setup for learning. The router is a Netgate SG-3100 running pfSense 2.4.5.
I have two VLANs setup:
VLAN 22 - for normal browsing. Using the 10.0.22.0/24 subnet
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Arista eos eAPI for full config
Anyone worked on full configuration of arista switches using the eAPI? I am going through the ansible eos_ modules and see that there are few missing configs. Do we have to use eos_config module for ...
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Finding the available capacity on switch interface in bytes or bits
Below is the output from my "show interface " command
PE1.18:01:44#sh interfaces Ethernet 3
Ethernet3 is up, line protocol is up (connected)
Hardware is Ethernet, address is 001c.7374.3d95
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25G SFP28 NIC and 25G SFP Adapter
My company recently purchased some Dell R740's with 2 Dual Port 25G SFP28 NIC's (Broadcom 57414) and wants to hook them up to an Arista 25G switch. We have two types of SFP adapters from Arista: SFP-...
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Arista 7050s Loopback Q-in-Q
Debugging an issue where I'm trying to get q-in-q working on an Arista 7050S with a loopback.
I’ve got packets egressing the switch double tagged but in ingress, I can see them on the STAG’s SVI. I’...
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Unexpected behavior when changing switch from unmanaged to managed mode [closed]
I'm currently puzzled by why a switch works only when in unmanaged mode. If I enable Management mode, using default configuration, things break down. Here's the current situation:
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How to encapsulate all VLAN traffic inside VXLAN
As I understand VXLAN, it looks like it should be able to encapsulate and properly route VLAN-tagged traffic.
However, in investigating how to actually configure VXLAN on network devices, it looks ...
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Arista switches- Email alert if interface status changes
I'm looking to be notified of interface state changes on my Arista switches without my manual polling of the logs. For example, tailing var/log/messages, I might see something like:
un 29 19:10:48 ...
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Arista: Unexpected results when pinging MLAG SVI
My understanding of Arista's implementation of MC-LAG is relatively weak, so its likely I've misunderstood a deliberate limitation of how the mlag works.
Taking a basic example,
Where,
switch1:
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Arista: Configuration diffs and archiving
Looking through the documentation for Arista EOS - the configuration replace command was only introduced in 4.14, leaving <4.14 without any form of replacing configurations (versus simply merging).
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Arista 40G switch capeablities
I have an FPGA that outputs packets to a fixed IP and MAC address. That then feeds into a 40G Arista switch. The Unicast UDP packets correctly route to the destination IP and MAC. We now have ...
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Inter-PVLAN communication on Arista 7050S
We have an Arista 7050S configured with a few PVLANs. All hosts on these PVLAN share the same /24 network (major flaw?). They can communicate between themselves within each PVLAN and with the gateway (...
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Allow outgoing connections
I have an Arista switch (EOS) and I'm having trouble allowing outgoing connection from the switch to the outside. Using tcpdump I can see that no packets are being allowed. This has an impact on DNS ...
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Arista MLAG ISSU upgrade - primary/secondary switch?
When upgrading Arista switches which are part of an MLAG cluster, is it necessary to start with the secondary switch?
In "Arista Warrior", from Gary A. Donahue, he specifies on page 123 to start by ...
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