Eric Stewart: Running Off At The Mouth

Archive for January, 2015

Nexus 7700 Part V: TCAM Woes and Solutions

by on Jan.21, 2015, under Networking, Technology

I get an error message while pasting in some VLAN interfaces:

ERROR: Module 1, 2, 10 returned status: Tcam will be over used, please enable bank chaining and/or turn off atomic update.If bank-chaining is enabled on other modules and this is a new linecard insertion,please enable bank-chaining prior to reloading this module.

Well, this (I think) is what it means, and how I resolved the situation.

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Nexus 7700 Part IV: vPC – Basic Configurations and Annoyances

by on Jan.08, 2015, under Networking, Technology

Having been silent about my Cisco Nexus 7700 work for a while, I come across something that irked me a little bit while trying to configure our 7700 pair to replace the 6500s, involving Virtual Port Channels. So here’s what Virtual Port Channels are and how they basically work, as well as one or two things that you might want to be aware of. So, this may end up getting quite long …

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