At 03:07 PM 2/15/01, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
> >
> >The best book for describing what you should "really care about" when
> >learning OSPF is Howard Berkowitz's "Designing Routing and Switching
> >Architectures." I think he does a better job than Doyle in making sure the
> >reader focuses on what really matters. And, as we know, he dispels urban
> >myths with style and aplomb.
> >
> >Priscilla
>
>I can't help but giggle a bit here. I was the reviewer for Jeff's
>OSPF chapter, and he reviewed some of my CertZone BGP papers. We
>hold each other in high respect,
I hold Jeff Doyle in high regard also. His Routing TCP/IP book is
excellent, especially as a reference and configuration manual. Your books
include more real-world wisdom, though, and much aplomb, though I admit I
don't really know what aplomb means. &;-)
> I believe, but we have different
>writing styles. Jeff, for example, feels that it's valuable to quote
>a lot of RFC-ish material at the start of a chapter, to establish
>precision for the discussion in the latter part of the chapter. It's
>probably fair to say that his mental model is more
>bottom-up/synthetic
Synthetic? Syntactical maybe?
> than mine, which is more top-down/analytic.
No wonder I can get on the same wavelength as you. I like top-down
analyses. &;-) I have to see the big picture to understand something. I
guess it's because I'm so right-brained. Networking attracts both
right-brained and left-brained people I have found. OK, I better stop now,
since I'm adding to the sheep in the pasture.
Priscilla
>As far as urban myth dispelling, I can't help but wonder if aplombing
>is one of the characteristics of a roto-router. Apologies to those
>outside North America for the regional reference.
>
>When I wrote the Designing Routing and Switching Book, I was
>concentrating neither on configuration and troubleshooting (more
>Jeff's focus) nor why various alternative choices were made in the
>protocol itself (see John Moy's and Radia Perlman's books). I may be
>submitting some proposed extensions to OSPF to the IETF, but then I
>will be wearing my protocol architect hat, which is different from my
>network architect hat.
>
> >
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Robert Nickson
> >>Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 10:10 AM
> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Subject: ccnp routing frames
> >>
> >>
> >>On the CCNP routing exam is there any questions on (i.e do i have to
> >>memorise)
> >>frame for frame the format of hello packets,DD packets,LSA packet
> >>frames...etc
> >>like ..version,type,packet length,route ID,Area ID,Checksum,Au
> >>type,Authentication etc etc
> >>or is there certain fields i should learn
> >>
> >>Any help would be useful
> >
> >
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