Tag: cisco

  • Legacy SSH key exchange workaround

    Cisco switches sometimes last longer than their cryptographic algorithms. You can fix this by purchasing a new switch (dah) or by enabling the old, and most likely weak, key exchange algorithm for the affected hosts in ~/.ssh/config. If that didn’t help and you get something like this: Then, the simplest workaround is to globally enable…

  • Cisco Catalyst slow SCP fix

    Cisco released the following command in IOS-XE 17.2.6. This essentially increases the window-size for SCP which allows for more throughput – and it is very noticeable: an IOS-XE image is around 1.2 GB, and this new command makes SCP go from hours to minutes. Here is an Ansible example showing how to utilize this new…