Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Standard SVI Config

I've been going through our SVIs in our network that I inherited and am trying to make things more consistent, but it's hard to tell what stuff is done on purpose or not. These are the commands that appear throughout:

  • description
  • mac-address
  • ip address
  • secondary ip addresses as needed
  • no ip proxy-arp
  • no ip redirects
  • no ip unreachables
  • ip access-group <in/out>
  • ip helper-address
  • ip pim sparse-dense-mode
  • ip route-cache same-interface
  • ip irdp
  • ip mask-reply

The problem is that not all of the SVIs have each of these commands. ip irdp will be on for half, but missing from the other half. ip mask-reply will be on for all but a handful. It's hard to tell if this was simply user error when creating them or if they weren't added for a specific purpose (which of course isn't documented). I hate to simply apply all the commands across all SVIs.

What do you all tend to do with your SVI configs? I can't seem to find a good "Here's the recommended config" for this sort of thing, so I figured I'd ask the rest of you for your best practices and why you do it that way.



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