Routing and Switching

Cisco Switch Upgrade Procedures for 9500, 9300, 9200, and 3xxx Series

Routing and Switching

In this blog post, we will delve into the quick switch upgrade procedures for some of Cisco’s prominent switch series: the Catalyst 9500, 9300/9200, and 3xxx series Preparation Assume the below preparations a. Backup Configuration: Prior to any upgrade, make a complete backup of your switch configuration. This precautionary step ensures that you can restore …

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How to Configure Trunk Port between Meraki and Cisco Catalyst Switch

Routing and Switching

This post is about cofiguring Trunk port between Meraki and Cisco Catalyst switch. Similar “cross-vendor” trunk port configuation from another post: Standard Trunk Port Configuration Meraki side Cisco Side LACP Etherchannel Configuration Meraki Side Cisco Side Useful link https://documentation.meraki.com/MS/Port_and_VLAN_Configuration/Switch_Ports

How to Use Regex in Network Policy Server – for Radius Client

Other, Routing and Switching

This post lists a simple example of using regex to match the Radius client IPs in Windows Network Policy Server (NPS) Scenario Multiple NPS Radius clients You only want NPS to execute that particular network policy for specific subnets/IP addresses. Regex in “Client IPv4 Address” Condition First, you need to create a new network policy …

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How to Configure VRRP between Fortinet and Cisco

Next Gen Firewall, Routing and Switching

This post is about configuring VRRP between Fortinet Fortigate and Cisco Environment Fortigate firewall and Cisco router’s interfaces are configured using sub-interface, the physical interface will also work here. 100 is the VRRP Group ID FortiGate Firewall has a higher priority 255, so it will be the master Cisco Configuration Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Configuration As …

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How to Configure LACP between FS and Cisco

Routing and Switching

This post is about configuring LACP between FS and Cisco Switches. Environment * FS Switch end * Cisco Switch end * 4x 10G connection in between FS switch configuration ====Change the port speed to 10G as our Cisco 9300 can only support 10G ====Configure the LACP Cisco Switch configuration LACP status Useful links https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/12_2sb/feature/guide/gigeth.html https://resource.fs.com/mall/file/user_manual/s5860-20sq-and-s5860-24xb-u-switches-configuration-guide.pdf

How to Connect Juniper QFX EVPN-VXLAN and VMware ESXi using LACP

Routing and Switching

This post is about configuring LACP between Juniper QFX (EVPN-VXLAN design) and VMware ESXi hosts. Environment *2x Juniper QFX 5120 Switches configured with EVPN-VXLAN, the design is a Collapsed Spine Fabric as described below: https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/release-independent/solutions/topics/task/configuration/collapsed-spine-fabric-cloud-dc-configuring.html *If you connect your ESXi hosts directly to the QFX switches, you have to use LACP in between as this …

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