Archive for October, 2008

service compress-config

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Router#wr
Building configuration…

% Warning: Saving this config to nvram may corrupt any network management or security files stored at the end of nvram.
Continue? [no]: no
% Configuration buffer full, can’t add command: 1.1.1.1 0.0.0.0
%Aborting Save. Compress the config.[OK]
Router#conf t
Router(config)#service compress-config
Router#wr
Building configuration…
Compressed configuration from 135121 bytes to 24897 bytes[OK]

When to use preempt in HSRP?

Monday, October 20th, 2008

I thought that I only need to use preempt on the active/main device. I was wrong. Based on this doco preempt command should be used on both devices.

6509 went to ROMMON?

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

A 6509 crashed and it went to ROMMON like this

System Bootstrap, Version 8.5(2)
Copyright (c) 1994-2007 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Cat6k-Sup720/SP processor with 524288 Kbytes of main memory

rommon 1 > boot
Initializing ATA monitor library…
string is bootdisk:s72033-ipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-33.SXH2a.bin
Loading image, please wait …

Well, IOS and the boot image are there. Yet still no joy.

6509#sh bootv
BOOT variable = sup-bootdisk:,1;
CONFIG_FILE variable [...]

No QoS for Citrix?

Monday, October 13th, 2008

A Citrix administrator can configure Citrix to publish Citrix applications individually or as the entire desktop. In the Published Desktop mode of operation, all applications within the published desktop of a client use the same TCP session. Therefore, differentiation among applications is impossible, and NBAR can be used to classify Citrix applications only as aggregates [...]

Sun Boxes To Be Destroyed

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Stuck in Active

Friday, October 10th, 2008

About a month ago I’ve decided to start my CCIE journey. Now I know how hard it is specially when I love my job too much.
I’m just so blessed surrounded by CCIEs hammering to do this and that including doing some small projects myself. Currently I’m helping a relocation project for an 8-floor building. [...]