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cisco nexus 93180lc-ex urpf for ipv6 not working

when i want to enable urpf for ipv6 in my cisco nexus 93180lc-ex by executing ipv6 verify unicast source reachable-via any rx it will show the following error IPv6 Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding not ...
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Help on Configuring LACP with Nexus 3000 and Proxmox

We recently acquired 5 new server nodes that will make up our new Production Proxmox VE Cluster. We also acquired a set of 2 Nexus 3172T Switches and are in the process of configuring the Network ...
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What is generating the /isan/etc/dcos_sshd_config file?

I posted this on the main stack overflow page, but then I remembered that this niche existed. Figured it was worth a cross-post... During a recent Nessus security scan at work, some of our NX-OS ...
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Cisco 93180LC nxos 10.2 license question [duplicate]

We have a pair of cisco n9k-c93180lc-ex with nxos 9.3.13 and we want to upgrade them to nxos 10.2. it seems cisco changed the licensing model in nxos 10.2 to smart and we should connect to internet, i ...
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Problems with twice-NAT on Cisco 3548

I'm trying to get Twice-NAT working on a Cisco 3548 switch. I have a VRF set up with 2 L3 ports on it - Eth1/33 has ip address 20.20.255.250/16 and is nat inside Eth1/34 has ip address 10.10.1.211/24 ...
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Why are 10.3(99w)F and 10.3(99x)F NX-OS named like that?

According to https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/ios-nx-os-software/nx-os-software/guide_c07-658595.html#TypesofCiscoNXOSSoftwarereleases the part in brackets - "99w" and "...
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Nexus 7706 - switchport trunk allowed vlan not working - all VLANs are being allowed

I noticed that my two Nexus 7706 do not limit the trunk VLANs to what switchport trunk allowed vlan is set to. Sample configuration: interface Ethernet1/15 switchport switchport mode trunk ...
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Policy Based Routing on Cisco Nexus 9300

We have Cisco nexus 9396PX and we run PBR on it. We want to send all traffic trough this route but it sends those traffic which is not learned in another routing protocol like BGP. In IOS we can use &...
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MACsec encryption feature on Cisco NX-OSv 9000 Virtual Software?

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus9000/sw/7-x/nx-osv/configuration/guide/b_NX-OSv_9000/b_NX-OSv_chapter_01.html The above link only stated some examples of features which ...
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nxos private vlan problem

my carrier assigned a 10Gbps/SFP+ port to me and it's connected to my Nexus 5672UP and here is my config port and VLANs config : interface Ethernet1/4 description MYCARRIER no cdp enable ...
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Cisco ACL Entries

I have a cisco 4500x and n5k-5672up and in their datasheet mentioned that we can have "Security ACL Entries (1K=1024) 128K (64K ingress and 64K in egress) Shared with QoS" for 4500x and &...
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n5k-5672up netflow performance

I want to enable Netflow on N5K-5672UP and send it to my Netflow analyzer to detect the DDoS attacks but before that, i want to know if that switch has a built-in in chipset or ASIC for Netflow or not....
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N5K-5672 CoPP issue

I have a N5K-5672UP with enterprise license and I execute these commands to protect my control plane : control-plane service-policy input copp-system-policy-default There is 2 issues: When I execute ...
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N5K-5672UP Packet Flow diagram

I have one N5K-5672UP and a few SVIs with IPv4/IPv6 public IPs, I want to have an ACL and apply that ACL to my UPLINKs and deny internet traffic towards SVIs, my question is when i do this then ACL is ...
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VXLAN working over IGP, but no NVE peers or EVPN routes in BGP

I'm an absolute beginner with NX-OS and VXLAN. I'm trying to set up a very simple configuration for VXLAN/EVPN/BGP. I have one NX-OSv spine and two leaf switches. No VPC, no anycast SVI. The ...
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Upgrade path for NEXUS 5672UP

It's the first Nexus family switch im going to upgrade. Currently I've this type of model: Mod Ports Module-Type Model Status --- ----- ----------------------------------- ---------------------- ------...
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bgp hold timer error

i have a cisco nexus 3064pq-10gx and i have a bgp session with my upstream and there is not a full table and i will see the following error 2-3 times a day in my switch log : %BGP-5-ADJCHANGE: bgp- [...
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Nexus N3K-C3064 SNMP ACL is not working

I have a N3K-C3064PQ-10GX and here is my snmp configuration: Community Group / Access context acl_filter _________ ______________ _______ __________ X network-operator ...
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nexus set ip default next hop not workign [closed]

i have a N3K-3064pq-10gx and i have a pbr for some of my VLANs with set IP default next-hop 1.2.3.4 and have a static route for default route in my switch but the problem here is my traffic routes ...
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nexus n3k ntp access list

i have a n3k-3064 with the following access list : 10 permit IP 1.2.3.4/32 any 20 deny IP any any and i have assigned this acl to ntp with the following commands : show ntp access-groups -------------...
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disable specific log in n3k

i have a N3K-C3064PQ-10GX and i receive the following log : 2020 Oct 13 04:36:10 GMT: %ARP-2-DUP_SRC_IP: arp [3565] Source address of packet received from 24e9.b39e.03bc on Vlan32(port-channel20) is ...
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Nexus 3K VPC and active active solution

I have 2x N3K-C3064PQ-10GX. Each n3k has 2x 10G LACP to the same upstream router and 2x 10G LACP downlink to my access switch. I have run VPC between my n3k and I have 50 vlan with same config on both ...
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nexus access lists performance

I have a N3K-C3064PQ-10GX and i have 2x 10g LACP uplink from my upstream and i have 2x 10G LACP downlink to my access switch, and i have 2x acl , one of them has been applied on UPLINK input and one ...
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Securing C3064 Nexus Control Plane

i have a N3k_C3064PQ-10GX and i want to secure control plane, i want to permit only trusted ip address and deny all other ips, because i am using dynamic ips it s hard to tune the access lists, so is ...
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Nexus vPC quick guide

i have 2x 3064PQ and connect both QSFP together and create vpc over this QSP connection (i have a lacp from n3k-1 qsfp 1&2 to n3k-2 qsfp1-2) and here is vpc config for n3k-1 : vpc domain 1 peer-...
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N5K-5548UP-AF CoPP issue

i have a n5k-5548up-af and as i read in https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus5000/sw/security/521_n1_1/b_5k_Security_Config_521N11/b_5k_Security_Config_521N11_chapter_01101....
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Cisco CML 2.0 strange ASA trunking issue

I am seeing very strange issue and now i am losing my mind so thought ask you folk. I have following two components connected point to point on Cisco CML 2.0 [nxos-9000v]--------------------[ASAv] ...
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Use ECMP to distribute traffic between two paths, one learned by eBGP and one learned by iBGP on a Cisco NX-OS switch

I maintain two cross-connected switches, R1 and R2, which both have a link to an external switch, R3. R1 and R2 both use eBGP to receive routes to various subnets behind R3. Additionally, R1 and R2 ...
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NXOS DHCP Relay - overwriting Option 54 (Server Identifier) differently in DHCPDISCOVER vs. DHCPREQUEST?

I'm trying to sort a DHCP relay problem in a VLXAN/EVPN environment (Cisco N9K, NXOS 9.3.2). We seem to be able to get DHCPDISCOVERs through to the server and DHCPOFFERS back from there. DHCPREQUESTs ...
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Cisco Nexus 6k mac move detection not working

My device is cisco Nexus 6001 Chassis (one unit dc switch) # show version ... kickstart: version 7.2(1)N1(1) system: version 7.2(1)N1(1) ... I've configured mac move detection: # conf t # mac ...
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nxos ansible playbook to configure interface

Last few days i am playing with cisco nexus switch to deploy config using nxos ansible modules to make it automate. I am running n3000-uk9-kickstart.6.0.2.U6.6.bin software and here is my playbook ...
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Cisco 3172 asks for LAN_ENTERPRISE_SERVICES_PKG license to enable OSPF and PIM when they are LAN_BASE_SERVICES_PKG license features

I have several Nexus 3100 switches in which I use OSPF and PIM. Cisco says that these features are included in the LAN_BASE_SERVICES_PKG which is included by default in the switches. Switch1# sh ...
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Leak default route to multiple VRFs while keeping VRFs isolated from each other

I'm working on a configuring stuff on a Cisco Nexus 3k based platform and trying to isolate different things into different VRFs which should not be able to talk to each other. Some of these VRFs ...
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Nexus 9396px FAN speed issue

When i load nxos.7.0.3.I2.2d.bin Software then FAN running very quiet in following speed switch# sh environment fan detail Fan: ------------------------------------------------------------------------...
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Cisco ASR1006 ESP40 high CPU utilization

We have ASR1006 with ASR1000-ESP40 and it seems strange on our SNMP monitoring its showing Max CPU utilization 70% and avg 35% but when i check on command line numbers are totally different, what is ...
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Cisco 3064 switch upgrade from 6.0.x to 7.0.x issue

I am trying to upgrade from 6.0.2.U6.5c to nxos.7.0.3.I4.7, before upgrade i want to make sure it pass all checks but i got this error. This switch isn't in production yet but want to make sure it ...
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VLAN does not exist in NXOS

This is my first time posting so my apologies if it's not quite right. I created a VLAN in NXOS with the following configuration: interface Vlan100 no ip redirects ip address 172.50.39.2/24 ...
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Cannot enable Flow Control on Cisco Nexus 3048

I've a pair of Nexus 3048 running NXOS version 7.0(3)I2(2d) and I can't enable flow control on ethernet interfaces. When issuing the command: flowcontrol receive on it returns with: ERROR: This ...
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How long of an outage for ISSU Nexus Upgrade?

I am in the progress of doing ISSU upgrades on some nexus 7710 chassis' with dual supervisor modules. I set a ping test that to traverse across the switch shortly before the upgrade and experienced ...
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Differences between SNMP on NX-OS and IOS

When I configure SNMP on IOS I use this syntax: snmp-server group [group] v3 priv snmp-server user [user] [group] v3 auth sha [blah] priv aes 128 [blah] access [ACL] ip access-list standard [ACL] ...
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add local route to vPC member

TLDR; routed port on vPC switch 1 needs to be accessible from vPC switch 2. Our data center has a pair of Nexus 5596T with L3 card being used as the core. These are vPC pair, HSRP members, all vlan ...
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Email alert if interface status changes

I have two Nexus 5548s in our data center. They have only servers and storage connected to them. Some interfaces are configured for native fiber channel while the rest are still Ethernet. Since there ...
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QoS (802.1p) for iSCSI Traffic on Cisco Nexus 3048

We're building a new core for our University and one thing that bugs me is the iSCSI network. We already considered Jumbo Frames and Flow Control on the iSCSI ports, but one thing remains for debate, ...
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understand "switch-profile" for Nexus 5k switches

Am I correct that if there is no switch-profile configured for pair of Cisco Nexus 5k switches, then conf sync does not work regardless that CFS(Cisco Fabric Services) is enabled over management ...
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Nexus OS authenticate via ssh key

on the catalyst IOS I hadn't had any problems with activating the ssh auth via public key, but on the Nexus OS I can't seem to find the option. Is it even implemented in some NX-OS version?
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1 x 40G QSFP to 4 x 10G SFP+ Can these 4 x 10G breakouts go to different hosts?

I am getting quotes for Structured Cabling and one guy is saying that I can use 40G MPO from my distribution switch up to a 40G MPO patch panel connection and across a 40G MPO trunk but then break it ...
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Communication between VDCs on Cisco Nexus 7000 via virtual interface

Is there any way to create a virtual interface of sorts between two VDCs on a single Nexus 7000 switch? I've read that a physical cable is required (which is lame) however I wasn't sure if this was a ...
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Cisco Nexus 5k EIGRP Configuration

I have two Cisco Nexus switches with EIGRP Routers. Switch 1: SWITCH1(config-if)# sh run !Command: show running-config !Time: Sun Feb 21 05:29:57 2016 version 5.0(3)U5(1f) no feature telnet no ...
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TACACS Implentation server key error

I'm implementing a new TACACS server on our network after having removed the old TACACS server which we no longer own. I've already gotten the implementation working with the NX-OS devices, but when ...
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Cisco Nexus vpc card type mismatch

I have a pair of Nexus switches configured for vPCs. In several cases, it is working correctly: core01# sh vpc consistency-parameters int po40 Legend: Type 1 : vPC will be suspended in ...
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