Cisco IOS – How To Find VLAN IPs (SVI’s)
KB ID 0001258 Problem If you have a complicated network, you can spend more time finding out how it’s configured, than actually doing any work on it! Today I had a client that needed some changes made on their LAN, I knew their name, and their network address, and common sense told me which of the core switches they were connected to. Solution A quick search on the client name told me what VRF they were in, and what VLAN they...
VPN Error – ‘CRYPTO-4-RECVD_PKT_NOT_IPSEC’
KB ID 0000936 Problem While setting up a simple site to site to site VPN, I was unable to get ISAKMP phase 1 to establish. When I had a look on the device at the far end. I saw this error logged in the console, every time I tried to bring up the tunnel. *Mar 1 00:21:42.811: %CRYPTO-4-RECVD_PKT_NOT_IPSEC: Rec’d packet not an IPSEC packet. (ip) vrf/dest_addr= /192.168.2.3, src_addr= 192.168.1.2, prot= 1 Solution After about 40...
Cisco IOS – Find The ‘Default Route’ For A VRF
KB ID 0001086 Problem Routing is one of my weaker subjects, and today I was trying to chase some routes though a network to locate all the firewalls. The core of the network has a bunch of 6500 Switches in various data centers. I tracked the network I was working on to an SVI on one of the core switches, that was in a VRF. But how could I find the ‘next hop’, the routing table on these switches is very large. Solution...