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AP3602 with rcvk9w8 image throws “%CDP_PD-2-POWER_LOW: All radios disabled”

We recently bought some new AP3602Es from Cisco. I'm trying to understand why this AP will not turn on the radio when we are sending enough power to the AP. I'm using inline power from the switch, ...
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Is high max-cpu-utilization in show process cpu a worrisome issue? [closed]

In our company we have 6509 Distribution Switch. It is configured with SUP and VSS. The IOS used being used is s72033-advipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-33.SXJ6.bin . History Earlier the ios being used was ...
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Cat6K parity failure and long SSO failover

From a Cat6K, RP crashinfo indicates parity error. Guidance seems to be to not do anything unless this happens more than once in 12-month period. At what point do you push Cisco for hardware or RAM ...
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QoS between two VLANs with Cisco 881 Router (IOS)

I'm hoping to get some advice regarding the best practice to delegate a limited Internet connection between two VLANs. In my case one VLAN is for an office network, and the other is for guests. What ...
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What are the different modes in Cisco routers, and why these modes?

I want to know on what basis Cisco designed the different modes in their routers. For example: config mode execution mode Can any one give the perfect reasons behind the different modes? What ...
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Copy running config in one line

I want to make a script to copy the running config of a switch 4506 in one line. So far, I see two option : copy run tftp: sw#copy run tftp://10.0.0.1/cfg.cfg Address or name of remote host ...
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IOS - Nat from a VRF to WAN interface in global routing table

Trying to get my head round how best to achieve the above In essence we have s speed test server that is available in the CPE's global routing table , that we would like the customer in VRF X to test ...
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Privilege configuration on cisco switch

I have a Cisco switch who have an user configured with privilege level 3 configured as below ! the user can configure an interface privilege configure level 3 interface privilege exec level 3 ...
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IPv4 & IPv6 IPSec differences

I am an undergraduate student where I decided to develop a firmware that would eliminate the security vulnerabilities that exist within the current technologies used. such as tunneling, translation ...
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Cisco 3620, installing nm-2fe2w

Is the WIC plug and play or are there commands that I need to run? The router is not showing the interfaces. I tried using the sh diag and it didn't show anything.
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Traffic generation from Cisco IOS device to prove WAN circuit

In essence I want to know if there is any way that we can use extended ping or any other command variants to prove to the customer that that the circuit is able to achieve the minimum CIR. The CE ...
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Specific DHCP pool on specific interface - IOS

Is it possible for a specific interface to only allow access to specific dhcp pools? This is assuming a cisco router(IOS) with dhcp server capabilities. E.g. For some router, hosts on fa0/0 can ...
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How can I reasonably verify my QoS configuration is working?

Context I've deployed a standard QoS config to a customer site running a Cisco 891 router with IOS 15.1(4)M4. The WAN link is a single ADSL2+ link (24/1Mbps) connected to FE8. I've previously tested ...
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SCP lost connection

Occasionally I have an issue when I try to SCP a file to one of our Cisco devices. When the connection starts, it immediately drops and says "lost connection". I've had this happen when there wasn't ...
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Cisco 3548XL VLANs, no router

I am working on a project currently in our lab. I have 1 3548XL with an uplink to our telco. Most of my Cisco experience is on the 6500 platform so I am used to having L3 features at my disposal. Is ...
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Is it possible to disable a single DHCP pool in IOS?

I am working on a Cisco L3 switch where most of SVIs are having ip helper-address configured for DHCP relay but also a couple of DHCP pools have been configured in the switch itself to serve dynamic ...
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Line protocol is down on Cisco Router / IOS 12.2

I have this error on a Cisco router running IOS version 12.2. This coincide with an error received on our alarming system saying that on this router we have an interface with "line protocol down". ...
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Multiple WANs/Out-of-band (Cisco 1900)

I've got a Cisco 1900 router which connects to the Internet using a primary and a secondary WAN connection. When the primary connection is up, all traffic use this link. When the primary connection ...
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What is the difference between “permit tcp any any eq telnet” and “permit tcp any eq telnet any”?

I'm a CCNA student and during a LAB I found that for some rules on an incoming extended ACL using a rule like permit tcp any any eq (protocol) would work fine while on other rules I needed to use the ...
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Automating Cisco IOS Config Backups using Plink [closed]

Anyone ever done this before? Trying to use plink.exe to execute a commands.txt file remotely and pull the running config. Unfortunately using the -m argument and specifying a simple command.txt file ...
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Do unused Cisco IOS features take up RAM/CPU resources?

For example, let's compare IP Base vs. Advanced Enterprise Services. Let's say you have advent installed, but you're only actually using the features relevant to ipbase. Other than flash memory space, ...
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Globally disable QoS on Cisco 3750 in production

I suspect some issues with faulty QoS settings on a 3750 stack running in a 24x7 environment. The 3750 mainly routes between vlans on a lan segment. Since it is a lan device (not terminating any wan ...
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Metro Ethernet settings on Customer devices

I am about to connect three remote sites to the main office by means of an metro ethernet provided by a service provider. The sites are connected by means of l3 and running OSPF on the connecting ...
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BGP signalled MPLS issues

I am having an issue getting a VPLS up using an ME3600x with 15.3(2) and BGP signalling. @yelfathi and @packettalk have pointed me down the correct route but not sure how to resolve it. I have 2 ...
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Configure External Interface for DHCPv6 client on Cisco IOS

What are the necessary steps to configure IOS 12.4(25f) to support IPv6? Comcast is the ISP, and I'll be using a Server 2012 box for internal DHCPv6. I'll need to grab a DHCPv6 address from Comcast ...
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Cisco IOS built-in SSH client default version

You issue the command ssh 192.168.97.97 from a IOS device and the destination IOS router/switch SSH server is accepting both SSH versions. Being that you did not specify a version to use on the SSH ...
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AAA/TACACS+ password on Cisco switch always fails at second password prompt

Whenever logging into a network device using AAA/TACACS+, if I fat-finger the password prompt after the username prompt, the second password prompt always fails even when the password is correct. I ...
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What factors drive a Cisco IOS upgrade?

In order of preference/priority, what factors do you consider in driving an upgrade (or downgrade) with Cisco IOS? If no compelling factors exist, how long would you allow a particular version of IOS ...
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auto-summary / no autosummary output [closed]

My class book (its in russian unfortunately) says that auto-summary command should output some info upon execution, but the only place where i could run it was rip config mode (otherwise it just ...
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Why does “show adjacency” take so long to run?

Why does the "show adjacency" command take so long to run (in the order of minutes) on Cisco IOS Software, 7200 Software (C7200P-SPSERVICESK9-M), Version 12.4(4)XD5, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)? The ...
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How can I speed up CLI typing in Cisco IOS using shortcuts?

I know we can use auto-completion (tab key) and abbreviated commands (such as sh ip int bri) to speed up typing. However, I'm still not satisfied with typing crypting chains such as sh ip dh sn bi | ...
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What is the NO PAYLOAD ENCRYPTION version of the IOS software?

When looking at the downloads available on the Cisco site, they have a regular version of the file and a NO PAYLOAD ENCRYPTION version. What is the difference? And why would one choose one over the ...
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Need some standard configurations for Cisco 1900 series router [closed]

Just bought a Cisco 1921 router but I'm new to Cisco. Been having a hard time configuring it, what are some standard configurations for these? I have a L3 switch that will be connected to it and using ...
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How can I see which switchports are not in use?

On a large Cisco Catalyst switch stack, almost all switchports are patched. I need to identify the ports, which are not in use, for connecting further devices. Following switchports, cabling, patch ...
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How can I capture traffic on Cisco IOS switches?

For investigating a problem in client to server communication, I need to capture packets for analysis. However it's not allowed to install a packet analyzer, such as Wireshark or tcpdump, on client or ...
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What is Dec MOP and how to disable it?

Performing a packet capture I keep seeing strange "DEC MOP Remote Console" frames: No. Time Source Destination Protocol Info 141 83.557841 Cisco_57:62:a0 ...