FAQS

• July 24, 2023 Is it a normal behavior for a 4506 / 6509-E to disclose the MD5 hash configured for HSRP standby authentication? When the show standby command is issued, the MD5 hashes are shown decrypted, even though the configuration has a hash.
• July 24, 2023 What happens when I configure more than 16 HSRP Standby Groups in Sup2/PFC2?
• July 24, 2023 I was able to configure more than 16 unique HSRP groups on Supervisor Engine 2 prior to Cisco IOS Software Release 12.1(8a)E5 (running on the MSFC2), and now I cannot. What has changed?
• July 24, 2023 What is the implication of using the same HSRP group ID on multiple interfaces?
• July 24, 2023 Can I only configure a total of 16 HSRP VLAN interfaces or 16 HSRP processes in the Supervisor Engine 2-based system?
• July 24, 2023 Do the HSRP group IDs configured on Supervisor Engine 2/MSFC2 have to be contiguous? Are there any other requirements?
• July 24, 2023 Does the limit apply to both Catalyst OS (CatOS) Software-based and Cisco IOS® Software-based Catalyst 6500/6000s?
• July 17, 2023 What is the maximum number of HSRP group IDs supported on various Supervisor Engines?
• July 17, 2023 How do I verify packet drops on a Nexus 7000 Switch?
• July 17, 2023 What does the %OC_USD-SLOT18-2-RF_CRC: OC2 received packets with CRC error from MOD 6 through XBAR slot 5/inst 1 error message mean?
• July 17, 2023 During Nexus 7010 upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.2.3 code, the X-bar module in slot 4 keeps powering off. The %MODULE-2-XBAR_DIAG_FAIL: Xbar 4 reported failure due to Module asic(s) reported sync loss (DevErr is LinkNum). Trying to Resync in device 88 (device error 0x0) error message is received.
• July 7, 2023 Is there a best practice for port-channel load balancing between Nexus 1000V Series and Nexus 7000 Series Switches?
• July 7, 2023 How do I implement VTP in a Nexus 7000 Series Switch where VLANs are manually configured?
• July 7, 2023 How do I verify if XL mode is enabled on a Nexus 7000 device?
• July 7, 2023 Can a Nexus 7000 be a DHCP server and can it relay DHCP requests to different DHCP servers per VLAN?
• July 7, 2023 How do I capture the output of the show tech-support details?
• July 7, 2023 How do I check the Network Time Protocol (NTP) status on a Nexus 7000 Series Switch?
• July 7, 2023 On a Nexus 7000 running NX-OS 5.1(3), can the DecNet be bridged on a VLAN?
• July 7, 2023 How do I enable/disable logging link status per port basis on a Nexus 7000 Series Switch?
• July 7, 2023 When I issue the “show interface counters errors” command, I see that one of the interfaces is consistently posting errors. What are the FCS-Err and Rcv-Err in the output of the “show interface counters errors” command?