Brocade Configuration pieces

Brocade v5.1 - Configuration pieces

# Allow ports with non default VLAN as native VLAN, to not be a default VLAN member
no dual-mode-default-vlan


# Configure VLAN for Management VRF
** rd = route distinguisher (unique identifier) In MPLS networks, these are very  important, as they RD is used across the networks. If no MPLS is used, the numbers are only locally significant.

vrf MVRF
  rd 1:1
  address-family ipv4
  ip route 0.0.0.0/0 10.255.0.1
  exit-address-family
exit-vrf

vlan 2 name MVRF
  untagged ethe 1/1
router-interface ve 2

management-vrf MVRF

 interface ethernet 1/1
  port-name MVRF-Port
  enable
  no route-only

interface ve 2
  port-name MVRF
  vrf forwarding MVRF
  ip address 10.255.0.10/24

ip tftp source-interface ve 2
ip syslog source-interface ve 2

  

Brocade VRF Resources:

http://www.brocade.com/downloads/documents/html_product_manuals/NI_05500c_ROUTING/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm#context=L3RoutingGuideR05.5.00c&file=Management%20VRF.11.4.html


For dual homed BGP setup, access-list to avoid becoming a transport network:

ip as-path access-list 100 sec 5 permit ^$
ip as-path access-list 101 sec 10 permit .*



Prefix list for default route
ip prefix-list default-only seq 10 permit 0.0.0.0/0

Route Map to pre-pend AS# to control route
ip prefix-list aggregate_prefix seq 10 permit
ip prefix-list aggregate_prefix seq 20 permit

route-map prepend_out permit 10
 match ip address prefix-list aggregate_prefix
 set as-path prepend
 set community ASn:n ASn:n ASn:n additive

route-map aggregate_out permit 10
 match ip address prefix-list aggregate_prefix

*** ASn:n example 3356:50 , this info you will get or request from the upstream bgp peering partner

ip router-id

router bgp
  local-as 1234
  log-dampening-debug
  neighbor 10.10.10.10 remote-as 4.3.2.1
  neighbor 10.10.10.10 update-source
  neighbor 10.10.10.10 soft-reconfiguration inbound
  neighbor 10.10.10.10 password 2

address-family ipv4 unicast
 aggregate-address
 network
 neighbor 10.10.10.10 route-map in
 neighbor 10.10.10.10 route-map out aggregate_out
 neighbor 10.10.10.10 filter-list 102 out
 neighbor 10.10.10.10 route-map out prepend_out
 neighbor 10.10.10.10 send-community
exit-address-family

GDGT - oh wow, mega time sink

http://www.gdgt.com - awesome, and it will take hours from your life. It was 6:15 PM when I logged in, and now just after logging out, it's 8:45 PM. Saw many cool gadgets, found some tips and tricks for calibrating (modifying some settings) on the LCD TV. Looks a bit better. Followed Jason Calicanis, Veronica Belmon and Leo Laporte, they have a stash of gadgets, but nothing like Veronica's list... it's like her own private Best Buy.

Maximize the use of Microsoft SkyDrive

Read this post: http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=2650

With Gladinet's Cloud Desktop app, you can map your Microsoft Skydrive
to a local drive letter.
This is really awesome, once you're skydrive is 25 GB or how ever big.
One drawback is the filesize,
which is limited to 50 MB per file. But rather than uploading a max of 5
files at a time, you can just drag
and drop them onto your SkyDrive. Depending on your network connection,
speed may vary, but I was
getting around 133 KB/S on a 512 KB/S COX connection. Now combined with
Cobian, you can setup
Cobian to backup to your Skydrive via Gladinet Cloud Desktop. Just
remember to set your Cobian job
to split the backup files into 50 MB files.

Thanks to Zack Whittaker for the original post on ZDNet.

-P

Awesome backup application

The other day I spoke with a friend of mine, who told me about Cobian Backup.
It's free, and very powerful. http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm
It can be installed as a application or a service. With the service feature, you get a remote control app to you can connect to the server with. So in case you want to have backup jobs running on a server, those jobs can easily be managed from any workstation with the remote management app.
It uses 7 zip to compress the backup files, and several encryption functions including cert base RSA-AES 1024 bit. Today I installed it as a service on my Windows 7 box, and scheduled a backup of my profile. The job setup is pretty easy to use, and the job run a full backup followed by 6 differentials. It keeps 10 full copies before it starts automatically cleaning out the old archives.
Excellent logging features, lightweight and easy to use. Thanks Luis Cobian for an awesome app.

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