Cisco Load Balancing Scenario

Objective  Maipu 1800 CPE router need to perform load balancing in between two outgoing interfaces F0 and F1  If one WAN link is down, then another wan link will be primary, vice versa. As the faulty link is restored, Both WAN link should do load balancing for LAN traffic. Topology  Description  Load...

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How to Time-based, Inbound Rate Limiting

Slaptijack reader Raj is looking for a way to limit inbound traffic on his switch ports based on the time of day. Specifically, he wants to restrict speed to 256 Kbps between 9 AM and 9 PM, and allow up to 1 Mbps the rest of the day. I've done something similar to this in the past, but with only one restriction, not two. Hopefully, this configuration will work! Note: This post is based on the work of a previous post on Cisco...

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How to Inbound Rate Limiting on Cisco Catalyst Switches

If you need to limit the inbound bandwidth of a switch port on a Cisco Catalyst, the key is in the QoS configuration. This particular configuration was done on a Cisco Catalyst 2960. As I mentioned, the key is QoS. The first thing you need to do is globally enable QoS with the mls qos configuration command. Once this command is enabled, QoS is enabled on all ports with default settings. Next, we'll need an access-list to match...

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How to enable routing on a 2960 series?

Your 2960 need to run IOS Version 12.2.55 or higher to enable lanbase-routing To enable routing we need two things. Firstly activate the functionality sdm prefer lanbase-routing and subsequently enable ip routing. You need to reload for the change to take place. After the system reload, you can use the show sdm prefer...

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