topic Re: Enabling Advance routing on NI-CER series in Data Center (MLX & CER/CES)

Enabling Advance routing on NI-CER series

snoop42 — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 23:45:59 GMT

Good day -

We have a NI-CER-2048CX-RT-AC with IP_ROUTE_SCALE and NI-CER-2048-ADV licenses on it. We are trying to enable the ADV license so we can increase the max IP-Routes. Any commands that need to be run specifically? Thanks --

Re: Enabling Advance routing on NI-CER series

joergkost — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:31:18 GMT

Does the license show up like this? Then you are ready to go.

show license
Index Package Name Lid Slot License Type Status License Period
1 IP_ROUTE_SCALE $x M normal active unlimited

Else you need to copy it via TFTP

copy tftp license $TFTPSERVER $FILE

System-max:

system-max ip-cache 1200000
system-max ip-route 1200000
system-max ipv6-cache 120000
system-max ipv6-route 120000

Re: Enabling Advance routing on NI-CER series

snoop42 — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:48:50 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply -

here is how it shows up:

NetIron CER 2048CX#show license
Index Package Name Lid Slot License Type Status License Period
1 NI-CER-2048-ADV ### M normal active unlimited
2 IP_ROUTE_SCALE ### M normal active unlimited

Does that help?

Re: Enabling Advance routing on NI-CER series

joergkost — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 01:06:03 GMT

The NI-CER-2048CX-RT-AC comes factory installed with the IP_ROUTE_SCALE, so it looks fine. From my point of view, you only need to raise the system-max(es) and should be good.

Re: Enabling Advance routing on NI-CER series

snoop42 — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 01:14:04 GMT

Thanks a lot Joerg. The guy who used to handle our Brocade configs is no longer here - is there a command/prompt needed to raise the system max? Appreciate the help!

Re: Enabling Advance routing on NI-CER series

joergkost — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 01:29:10 GMT

enable
conf t
system-max ip-cache 1200000
system-max ip-route 1200000
system-max ipv6-cache 120000
system-max ipv6-route 120000
wr mem

and then if you are ready, reload the router with reload

Re: Enabling Advance routing on NI-CER series

snoop42 — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 03:18:50 GMT

Hoping the techs are missing something as they just sent this:

system-max ip-cache 1200000
Error - Parameter ip-cache should be between 4096 and 524288

system-max ip-route 1200000
Error - Parameter ip-route should be between 4096 and 524288

Re: Enabling Advance routing on NI-CER series

joergkost — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 03:42:42 GMT

Can you check the commands from this article?

https://extremeportal.force.com/ExtrArticleDetail?an=000077295&q=CER-2048CX-RT-AC

Re: Enabling Advance routing on NI-CER series

snoop42 — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 01:06:24 GMT

Here is what is showing up - hope this helps?

Result:
hw pid show

=== Manufacturing Information ====
Board Class : 0x25 (Metro 1Gx48 Copper + 2X10G)
Factory Assembly Part Number : 40-1000369-01
Chassis Type: METRO-HEAVY (0x40) [FF]
Factory Serial Number : J7SA40E00B
Chassis Serial Number : K3SA40E00B
Power Type: Unknown (ff)
Date of Manufacture : 10-22-2009
Bench Test Status : PASSED
Burn-in Test Status : PASSED
Manufacturing Deviation : ��
RMA Number : ��
OEM Vendor: None
OEM Vendor Serial Number: ��
OEM Vendor Part Number: ��
PCB Revision : ��
MFG Test : 042620
SW License Id: mIucJFgFFd

Re: Enabling Advance routing on NI-CER series

joergkost — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 17:57:45 GMT

Do you have support on that box? Because it seems you need to change the chassis type, that is stored inside the EEPROM to solve this issue and make the license being fully accepted.

Re: Enabling Advance routing on NI-CER series

snoop42 — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 22:10:21 GMT

Unfortunately there is no support on the unit.. Sounds like we may be out of luck on this? Thanks for all of your help Joerg - it is greatly appreciated...