Hi guys

There's a small office which I'm trying to help set up their infrastructure. They've only got around 3 to 4 people. There's network ports/switches etc. They have 3 to 4 PC's in there. They want a simple way to share files/folders in a centralised location, like a fileserver.

What would be the best way to do that? Would it be to get something like Azure files? How about OneDrive for Business? Or perhaps just using a NAS connected to the network?

Thanks for helping
Yash

Hi,

I have two Cisco switches 9300 and I want to configure HSRP. I have 10 VLAN's

192.168.0.0
192.168.1.0
....192.168.10.0


Thanks

How should spanning tree be designed?

I have a wireless controller that is essentially a switch and that is connected to a core switch.  The port, from the wireless controller is set with spanning tree turned on.  The core switch is using Spanning tree )(2 fiber connections on each switch uplink port.

I want to use another port on the same wireless controller that will be connecting to other switches.  Should I disable spanning tree on the other ports or not?  If these other ports on the wireless controller have spanning tree disabled will that cause any loop?


I have never worked with spanning tree before and I am not sure what I should do?  But I do not want to bring the network down.  Again Spanning tree I enabled on the core switch ports that will connect to the wireless controller.  Should I have spanning tree enabled on the wireless controller ports or will disabling spanning tree on the wireless controller bring the network down?

One may reference:  https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29122858/Why-did-a-Spanning-Tree-enabled-switch-port-bring-another-switch-off-line.html?headerLink=workspace_answered_questions

I am looking to upgrade my router to a router that can handle a higher volume and faster, but the number is confusing me a little.

I currently have a Ubiquiti ER-X and looking at the ERPoe‑5, I compared all the specs [RAM, Storage size, 1518 byte packets] and the ERPoe‑5 is higher or same, except for 64 bytes packets which the EX-R the throughput and pps, same is with the CPU frequency on theses 2 the EX-R is higher [EX-R throughput 957 Mbps pps 1,400,000 and the ERPoe‑5 throughput 490 Mbps pps 730,000, CPU frequency ER-X 880 MHz ERPoe‑5 500 MHz both CPU core count 2]

Please help.

HI Experts.

I have this policy map on most of the switches at my organization.  
Policy Map AUTOQOSPOLICY

    Class AUTOQOS_VOIP_DATA_CLASS
      set dscp ef
      police 128000 8000 exceed-action policed-dscp-transmit
    Class AUTOQOS_VOIP_SIGNAL_CLASS
      set dscp cs3
      police 32000 8000 exceed-action policed-dscp-transmit
    Class AUTOQOS_DEFAULT_CLASS
      set dscp default
      police 10000000 8000 exceed-action policed-dscp-transmit

We are now replacing the existing phones with a new cloud base phone system and they sent me these requirement for QOS and the vendor gave me this policy to use on the switches

policy-map PM-ASW-IB-User
class CM-ASW-IB-RC-Voice-RTP
set ip dscp ef
police 512000 16000 exceed-action drop
class CM-ASW-IB-RC-Video-RTP
set ip dscp af41
police 768000 8000 exceed-action policed-dscp-transmit
class CM-ASW-IB-RC-GeneralSIP
set ip dscp af31
police 32000 8000 exceed-action policed-dscp-transmit
class CM-ASW-IB-RC-Meetings-Control
set ip dscp af31
police 32000 8000 exceed-action policed-dscp-transmit
class CM-ASW-IB-RC-Other
set ip dscp af21
class CM-ASW-IB-Cust-AF13
set ip dscp af13
class CM-ASW-IB-Cust-AF12
set ip dscp af12
class CM-ASW-IB-Cust-AF11
set ip dscp af11
class class-default
set ip dscp default

Apply on the ports :

interface range Gi1/0/9-20
! no mls qos trust device cisco-phone
! no auto qos voip cisco-phone
! no mls qos trust cos
! mls qos trust dscp
! priority-queue out
! …

Should I worry about humidity in server room?
The server room is in the design stage. It may have 2 open racks and 3 cabinets which mount servers, UPS, etc.  
The temperature will be well controlled by A/C system, which does not offer humidity control. Is this a big deal? I usually don't pay much attention to humidity in the past.

CAT6A or CAT6?

The client is building a 100K square feet new manufacturing facility that potentially may have 500+ network cable runs - data, voice, WiFi APs, security cameras, etc. This new facility will be ready to occupy in less than a year.
The cost of deploying CAT6A can be 2.5x or 3x more expensive than CAT6, which is about $20K~30K more.
Does the cost justify the future proof of 10GB?
If you were me, will you propose CAT6A or CAT6? And importantly, the reasoning to convince the client?

Thanks!

PS - all the network devices (Servers, PCs, network switches, etc) that will be moved to the new facility will be 1GB

Hello experts,

I am at a site and they use cisco WLC 5500 wireless controller and they have defined all the SSIDs , one of the SSID is the guest and I am checking the interface defined and it is clearly showing that it is on VLAN 50 the IP of the interface is given, plus the gateway which is same as the primary DHCP 10.20.10.1.

I checked the core switch and there is VLAN 50 but just the vlan is defined but there is no SVI for vlan 50 and there are no DHCP services on the core, I checked the Microsoft servers and I do not see the scope for vlan 50. I am wondering how the clients are getting a dhcp IP when they access the guest SSID. I can not find this gateway or primary DHCP 10.20.10.1

This client also uses cisco ISE, I have access to the cisco ISE but it uses different IP and I do have access to it but I am not getting clarity on this network, Any suggestions on how to find this dhcp server or service will be great help.

hi guys

I was looking into cloud switching, such as the tools being offered by Cisco Meraki. They keep saying that you can have your switches in the cloud. But I'm trying to understand how that would work.

Would that mean that in my organisation which consists of two stacks of x 7 switches, totalling 14 switches, that I would suddenly no longer need that anymore if I implemented Meraki's?

We have around 300 people in our office. All of those people have to be connected/patched to a port on the wall and those need to be patched into a switch.  I can't exactly get rid of those physical switches can I? So I'm not really understanding the whole cloud switching situation with Meraki's?

Or have I totally misunderstood the cloud switching scenario?

thanks for helping
Yash

Hi

I have a network with a Layer2 link back to a datacentre which provides our internet connection, we have no firewall onsite at present but looking to install one.

We have ordered an internet connection on premise.

We want to keep our Layer 2 connection and make use of it somehow.

We want to use the new internet connection on-premise and a firewall to route the internet. What's the best way to do this?

Hi Experts,

I am able to access the call manager in our organization, I have a phone device and I can see it under Device --> Phone but I want to know how an anolog phone with DID phone number  will connect to call manager using internal extension usually using the last 4 digits as internal ext,

If the product Type Tye says : Analog Phone , does that mean it is a analog phone.

Dear Experts,

I am at a client location today and they have a local server that will be accessing different sites with various ports. The client has ASA firewall and Cisco Firepower my question is do I add the access rules in Firepower or directly in ASA?

I am always not sure and the client has no preference.

Please let me know from your experience how to tackle this .

Thanks,

Hello gents,

I am at a customer site and they have a server in the internal zone, the network has Cisco ASA firewall.

They have a developer and on the server he wants to open ports 7000-7200, Do I use the Cisco ASA to open these ports ? or is this done on the server only.

I am not sure how to address this I need clarity on such type of requests from clients,

Thanks,