Re: Fast Ethernet MTU Size

2000-12-04 Thread Darren Ward

Ethernet can indeed run at a higher MTU as our discussion showed, in fact we are 
trying to get hold of some 2FE cards to do just that, we already run MTU4470 on our 
gig to gig links but remember these do not go through any switches but are router to 
router only so fixed MTU ports are avoided.

Now a giant is only detected if the packet was over 4470 not 1500 (Have tested that 
already).

However back to your point, you can't raise a normal ethernet or single port fast 
ethernet card to more than 1500 bytes and most switches don't like a higher MTU either.

Still it is possible, does work and changes the sizes of giants automatically as the 
MTU is modified.

Darren

Tony van Ree wrote:

 Hi all,

 I was under the impression that an ethernet frame had a maximum size of 1500 bytes.  
This did not include the addresses or the FCS.  To increase the MTU beyond that size 
would indeed create a giant on ethernet.  As it is you will find some devices give an 
error message when including an ISL header.  (A gig port on a 2984 is a good example) 
 In the case of the 2984 the data still goes through ok but when you get a packet 
over 1484 bytes an whack it through the port the error rate rises.   Anything small 
is ok.

 It does seem to me that the basic ethernet standards define the max MTU pretty well.

 I could however have mis understood all these years.

 Thanks,

 Teunis,
 Hobart, Tasmania
 Australia.

 On Saturday, December 02, 2000 at 12:25:13 AM, Kevin Wigle wrote:

  there is a "mtu" command.
 
  In a somewhat similar situation - I had built a circuit using lan emulation
  that terminated on a bvi on a 7505.
 
  The bvi had an ip address and placed into an OSPF area.
 
  I'm not aware of the defaults with a router that has both ATM and ethernet
  but I didn't take notice of the mtu that the bvi had - I assumed that it was
  just like an ethernet interface
 
  On the distant end of the lan emulation was an ordinary router with an
  ethernet interface and it was also configured into the OSPF area.
 
  However, OSPF didn't work.  debugging showed that an adjacency wasn't being
  formed.
 
  Turning up yet more debugging - finally an error about "mtu size not equal"
  was noticed.
 
  sure enough, the bvi had the ATM mtu of 4470..
 
  using the mtu command on the bvi interface "mtu 1500", the adjacency formed
  immediately and all was well.
 
  so, my guess would be that a fast ethernet probably has the same "mtu"
  command, try it out.
 
  Kevin Wigle
 
  - Original Message -
  From: "Darren Ward" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Friday, 01 December, 2000 22:02
  Subject: Fast Ethernet MTU Size
 
 
   Hi All,
  
   Is it at all possible to raise the MTU size on Fast Ethernet?
  
   I'll give you all a scenario
  
   ATM on one side with an MTU of 4470, fast ethernet connecting the two
   routers, Gigabit Ethernet the other side with an MTU of 4470.
  
   How can I raise the MTU of a Full Duplex Fast Ethernet Connection above
   1500?
  
   I assume it's not possible when going through switched as they will show
   every packet as a giant but in a router to router cross-over connection
   I was hoping there was some way to keep the MTU static across the path
   rather than force the routers to fragment and re-assemble (of course the
   destination re-assembles).
  
   Darren Ward
   CCNP, CCDP, CCIE Wannabee
  
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Re: Fast Ethernet MTU Size

2000-12-04 Thread Darren Ward



Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote:

 Some sort of maximum is necessary, of course, in order to assure fairness.
 The myths about the maximum having something to do with making CSMA/CD work
 correctly are inaccurate, (not that anyone said that in this thread). The
 myths are a mistake by analogy. The minimum size frame is necessary for
 CSMA/CD to work correctly.

Totally agree, you simply can't get around (nor should you want to get around) the
minimum packet size because of the whole collision detection (magic 32 bit
time/distance) issue.

But as I've seen the MTU can indeed be set much higher, but relatively few cards/ports
support it.

Gigabit ports and 2FE cards are the only exception I've found so far but the 
performance
boost this gives some router to router traffic such as BGP is quite significant.

We have iBGP between GSR's in one area and the convergence and transfer times are
phenomenal.

Darren

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Re: Fast Ethernet MTU Size

2000-12-03 Thread Tony van Ree

Hi all,

I was under the impression that an ethernet frame had a maximum size of 1500 bytes.  
This did not include the addresses or the FCS.  To increase the MTU beyond that size 
would indeed create a giant on ethernet.  As it is you will find some devices give an 
error message when including an ISL header.  (A gig port on a 2984 is a good example)  
In the case of the 2984 the data still goes through ok but when you get a packet over 
1484 bytes an whack it through the port the error rate rises.   Anything small is ok.

It does seem to me that the basic ethernet standards define the max MTU pretty well.

I could however have mis understood all these years.

Thanks,

Teunis,
Hobart, Tasmania
Australia.

On Saturday, December 02, 2000 at 12:25:13 AM, Kevin Wigle wrote:

 there is a "mtu" command.
 
 In a somewhat similar situation - I had built a circuit using lan emulation
 that terminated on a bvi on a 7505.
 
 The bvi had an ip address and placed into an OSPF area.
 
 I'm not aware of the defaults with a router that has both ATM and ethernet
 but I didn't take notice of the mtu that the bvi had - I assumed that it was
 just like an ethernet interface
 
 On the distant end of the lan emulation was an ordinary router with an
 ethernet interface and it was also configured into the OSPF area.
 
 However, OSPF didn't work.  debugging showed that an adjacency wasn't being
 formed.
 
 Turning up yet more debugging - finally an error about "mtu size not equal"
 was noticed.
 
 sure enough, the bvi had the ATM mtu of 4470..
 
 using the mtu command on the bvi interface "mtu 1500", the adjacency formed
 immediately and all was well.
 
 so, my guess would be that a fast ethernet probably has the same "mtu"
 command, try it out.
 
 Kevin Wigle
 
 - Original Message -
 From: "Darren Ward" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Friday, 01 December, 2000 22:02
 Subject: Fast Ethernet MTU Size
 
 
  Hi All,
 
  Is it at all possible to raise the MTU size on Fast Ethernet?
 
  I'll give you all a scenario
 
  ATM on one side with an MTU of 4470, fast ethernet connecting the two
  routers, Gigabit Ethernet the other side with an MTU of 4470.
 
  How can I raise the MTU of a Full Duplex Fast Ethernet Connection above
  1500?
 
  I assume it's not possible when going through switched as they will show
  every packet as a giant but in a router to router cross-over connection
  I was hoping there was some way to keep the MTU static across the path
  rather than force the routers to fragment and re-assemble (of course the
  destination re-assembles).
 
  Darren Ward
  CCNP, CCDP, CCIE Wannabee
 
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Re: Fast Ethernet MTU Size

2000-12-03 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer

The Ethernet standards (Blue Book and IEEE 802.3) say that the maximum 
Ethernet frame size is 1518 bytes, counting the dest and src addresses, 
type/length field, and FCS. But, theoretically, there's no reason it 
couldn't be bigger, and some interfaces accept bigger frames. They have to 
for ISL, as you mentioned.

I asked Bob Metcalfe where 1518 bytes comes from. Seriously, I met him at a 
party many years ago and hit him with this question. His answer, "Hmm, well 
I really don't know!"

Some sort of maximum is necessary, of course, in order to assure fairness. 
The myths about the maximum having something to do with making CSMA/CD work 
correctly are inaccurate, (not that anyone said that in this thread). The 
myths are a mistake by analogy. The minimum size frame is necessary for 
CSMA/CD to work correctly.

Priscilla

At 09:22 AM 12/4/00, Tony van Ree wrote:
Hi all,

I was under the impression that an ethernet frame had a maximum size of 
1500 bytes.  This did not include the addresses or the FCS.  To increase 
the MTU beyond that size would indeed create a giant on ethernet.  As it 
is you will find some devices give an error message when including an ISL 
header.  (A gig port on a 2984 is a good example)  In the case of the 2984 
the data still goes through ok but when you get a packet over 1484 bytes 
an whack it through the port the error rate rises.   Anything small is ok.

It does seem to me that the basic ethernet standards define the max MTU 
pretty well.

I could however have mis understood all these years.

Thanks,

Teunis,
Hobart, Tasmania
Australia.

On Saturday, December 02, 2000 at 12:25:13 AM, Kevin Wigle wrote:

  there is a "mtu" command.
 
  In a somewhat similar situation - I had built a circuit using lan emulation
  that terminated on a bvi on a 7505.
 
  The bvi had an ip address and placed into an OSPF area.
 
  I'm not aware of the defaults with a router that has both ATM and ethernet
  but I didn't take notice of the mtu that the bvi had - I assumed that 
 it was
  just like an ethernet interface
 
  On the distant end of the lan emulation was an ordinary router with an
  ethernet interface and it was also configured into the OSPF area.
 
  However, OSPF didn't work.  debugging showed that an adjacency wasn't being
  formed.
 
  Turning up yet more debugging - finally an error about "mtu size not equal"
  was noticed.
 
  sure enough, the bvi had the ATM mtu of 4470..
 
  using the mtu command on the bvi interface "mtu 1500", the adjacency formed
  immediately and all was well.
 
  so, my guess would be that a fast ethernet probably has the same "mtu"
  command, try it out.
 
  Kevin Wigle
 
  - Original Message -
  From: "Darren Ward" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Friday, 01 December, 2000 22:02
  Subject: Fast Ethernet MTU Size
 
 
   Hi All,
  
   Is it at all possible to raise the MTU size on Fast Ethernet?
  
   I'll give you all a scenario
  
   ATM on one side with an MTU of 4470, fast ethernet connecting the two
   routers, Gigabit Ethernet the other side with an MTU of 4470.
  
   How can I raise the MTU of a Full Duplex Fast Ethernet Connection above
   1500?
  
   I assume it's not possible when going through switched as they will show
   every packet as a giant but in a router to router cross-over connection
   I was hoping there was some way to keep the MTU static across the path
   rather than force the routers to fragment and re-assemble (of course the
   destination re-assembles).
  
   Darren Ward
   CCNP, CCDP, CCIE Wannabee




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Re: Fast Ethernet MTU Size

2000-12-03 Thread Tony van Ree

I made an half asleep typo.  Anything small was not quite what I meant.

Teunis.

On Sunday, December 03, 2000 at 05:31:49 PM, Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote:

 The Ethernet standards (Blue Book and IEEE 802.3) say that the maximum 
 Ethernet frame size is 1518 bytes, counting the dest and src addresses, 
 type/length field, and FCS. But, theoretically, there's no reason it 
 couldn't be bigger, and some interfaces accept bigger frames. They have to 
 for ISL, as you mentioned.
 
 I asked Bob Metcalfe where 1518 bytes comes from. Seriously, I met him at a 
 party many years ago and hit him with this question. His answer, "Hmm, well 
 I really don't know!"
 
 Some sort of maximum is necessary, of course, in order to assure fairness. 
 The myths about the maximum having something to do with making CSMA/CD work 
 correctly are inaccurate, (not that anyone said that in this thread). The 
 myths are a mistake by analogy. The minimum size frame is necessary for 
 CSMA/CD to work correctly.
 
 Priscilla
 
 At 09:22 AM 12/4/00, Tony van Ree wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I was under the impression that an ethernet frame had a maximum size of 
 1500 bytes.  This did not include the addresses or the FCS.  To increase 
 the MTU beyond that size would indeed create a giant on ethernet.  As it 
 is you will find some devices give an error message when including an ISL 
 header.  (A gig port on a 2984 is a good example)  In the case of the 2984 
 the data still goes through ok but when you get a packet over 1484 bytes 
 an whack it through the port the error rate rises.   Anything small is ok.
 
 It does seem to me that the basic ethernet standards define the max MTU 
 pretty well.
 
 I could however have mis understood all these years.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Teunis,
 Hobart, Tasmania
 Australia.
 
 On Saturday, December 02, 2000 at 12:25:13 AM, Kevin Wigle wrote:
 
   there is a "mtu" command.
  
   In a somewhat similar situation - I had built a circuit using lan emulation
   that terminated on a bvi on a 7505.
  
   The bvi had an ip address and placed into an OSPF area.
  
   I'm not aware of the defaults with a router that has both ATM and ethernet
   but I didn't take notice of the mtu that the bvi had - I assumed that 
  it was
   just like an ethernet interface
  
   On the distant end of the lan emulation was an ordinary router with an
   ethernet interface and it was also configured into the OSPF area.
  
   However, OSPF didn't work.  debugging showed that an adjacency wasn't being
   formed.
  
   Turning up yet more debugging - finally an error about "mtu size not equal"
   was noticed.
  
   sure enough, the bvi had the ATM mtu of 4470..
  
   using the mtu command on the bvi interface "mtu 1500", the adjacency formed
   immediately and all was well.
  
   so, my guess would be that a fast ethernet probably has the same "mtu"
   command, try it out.
  
   Kevin Wigle
  
   - Original Message -
   From: "Darren Ward" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Sent: Friday, 01 December, 2000 22:02
   Subject: Fast Ethernet MTU Size
  
  
Hi All,
   
Is it at all possible to raise the MTU size on Fast Ethernet?
   
I'll give you all a scenario
   
ATM on one side with an MTU of 4470, fast ethernet connecting the two
routers, Gigabit Ethernet the other side with an MTU of 4470.
   
How can I raise the MTU of a Full Duplex Fast Ethernet Connection above
1500?
   
I assume it's not possible when going through switched as they will show
every packet as a giant but in a router to router cross-over connection
I was hoping there was some way to keep the MTU static across the path
rather than force the routers to fragment and re-assemble (of course the
destination re-assembles).
   
Darren Ward
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Re: Fast Ethernet MTU Size

2000-12-02 Thread Darren Ward

I have noticed that on the 12008 I can set the MTU higher but not the 7206VXR?

Since I'm talking about going straight from a 7206VXR to a 12008GSR I assume then all I
should need to do is get a 2FE card for the 7200.

The switch issue doesn't come into this one as mentioned but is a point well taken of
course.

I think I'll try and find the card documentation on CCO and thanks for the reference.

Darren

Hugo _ wrote:

 You need the 2FE port to change the MTU size, but also in the Catalyst you
 need to have the version wich support the feature "jumbo packet" wich permit
 to pass packet greater than 1500.

 Hugo

 From: Darren Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reply-To: Darren Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Fast Ethernet MTU Size
 Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 14:02:06 +1100
 
 Hi All,
 
 Is it at all possible to raise the MTU size on Fast Ethernet?
 
 I'll give you all a scenario
 
 ATM on one side with an MTU of 4470, fast ethernet connecting the two
 routers, Gigabit Ethernet the other side with an MTU of 4470.
 
 How can I raise the MTU of a Full Duplex Fast Ethernet Connection above
 1500?
 
 I assume it's not possible when going through switched as they will show
 every packet as a giant but in a router to router cross-over connection
 I was hoping there was some way to keep the MTU static across the path
 rather than force the routers to fragment and re-assemble (of course the
 destination re-assembles).
 
 Darren Ward
 CCNP, CCDP, CCIE Wannabee
 
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RE: Fast Ethernet MTU Size

2000-12-02 Thread Shaw, Winston Mr.

Try it. Ethernet is based on physical and data layer characteristics with a
strong dose of CSMA/CD. If all sides agree what the bit times will be above
64 then it might work. The mtu command could probably be placed on all
interfaces involved.
On another note, I remember having two identical servers-one fast ethernet,
the other with a 100Mbs ATM card hooked directly to an ATM switch and the
server with the ATM card always seemed "faster" than the one with the FE
card. This was a production environment so I never really got a chance to do
any real testing. I have always felt that the predictabilty of the ATM cell
sizes would account for the seemingly faster throughput. We have moved away
from ATM on the LAN to Gig except for some WAN connections so I might never
know.

Let us know if it worked.
Winston.


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Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 4:02 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fast Ethernet MTU Size


Hi All,

Is it at all possible to raise the MTU size on Fast Ethernet?

I'll give you all a scenario

ATM on one side with an MTU of 4470, fast ethernet connecting the two
routers, Gigabit Ethernet the other side with an MTU of 4470.

How can I raise the MTU of a Full Duplex Fast Ethernet Connection above
1500?

I assume it's not possible when going through switched as they will show
every packet as a giant but in a router to router cross-over connection
I was hoping there was some way to keep the MTU static across the path
rather than force the routers to fragment and re-assemble (of course the
destination re-assembles).

Darren Ward
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Fast Ethernet MTU Size

2000-12-01 Thread Darren Ward

Hi All,

Is it at all possible to raise the MTU size on Fast Ethernet?

I'll give you all a scenario

ATM on one side with an MTU of 4470, fast ethernet connecting the two
routers, Gigabit Ethernet the other side with an MTU of 4470.

How can I raise the MTU of a Full Duplex Fast Ethernet Connection above
1500?

I assume it's not possible when going through switched as they will show
every packet as a giant but in a router to router cross-over connection
I was hoping there was some way to keep the MTU static across the path
rather than force the routers to fragment and re-assemble (of course the
destination re-assembles).

Darren Ward
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Re: Fast Ethernet MTU Size

2000-12-01 Thread Darren Ward

Hi Chuck,

I'm not a 100% sure myself but I believe the delineation is that layer 3
fragmentation is seperate from ATM SAR.

SAR simply takes the layer 3 packet and chops it into 48 byte payloads and
reassembles it at the other end of the ATM link, the actual content of the
payload, the packet itself is irrelevant to that level.

At any rate we have seen sinificant improvements in BGP using an MTU of 4470 on
Gig and OC3 ATM so I want to try and increase the MTU on the link between
another couple of routers.

Darren

Chuck Larrieu wrote:

 Not knowing the ethernet side of things, but I am curious - and MTU of 4470
 on ATM? 53 byte cell size?

 I did a cursory search of the IEEE web site but didn't find much.

 Chuck

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 Darren Ward
 Sent:   Friday, December 01, 2000 7:02 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject:Fast Ethernet MTU Size

 Hi All,

 Is it at all possible to raise the MTU size on Fast Ethernet?

 I'll give you all a scenario

 ATM on one side with an MTU of 4470, fast ethernet connecting the two
 routers, Gigabit Ethernet the other side with an MTU of 4470.

 How can I raise the MTU of a Full Duplex Fast Ethernet Connection above
 1500?

 I assume it's not possible when going through switched as they will show
 every packet as a giant but in a router to router cross-over connection
 I was hoping there was some way to keep the MTU static across the path
 rather than force the routers to fragment and re-assemble (of course the
 destination re-assembles).

 Darren Ward
 CCNP, CCDP, CCIE Wannabee

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RE: Fast Ethernet MTU Size

2000-12-01 Thread Chuck Larrieu

Hhhhm. I thought my reply was private.

Oh well,,,

What I know about ATM will fill a thimble with room left over for a skein of
yarn :-

Same for gig E

I know there are mathematical calculations for MTU in ethernet, based on
network diameter, and the physics of signal propagation through the wire. So
it may well be that if the only two stations on the wire are directly
connected and just a few feet apart, running full dup, then you can make
adjustments.

I see on my router ( 2501 ) that there is an MTU command under the ethernet
port, with values from 64 through 18000. I get an error when I try to
adjust, with a report that I don't have a 2FE port adapter.

Hmmm.. a quick look around CCO kinda indicates that the FE adapter for
the higher end routers might support a larger MTU.

And yes, while looking through the command reference, I did see MTU sizes
for various media, including ATM at 4470

Learn something every day.

Chuck


-Original Message-
From:   Darren Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Friday, December 01, 2000 8:29 PM
To: Chuck Larrieu; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: Fast Ethernet MTU Size

Hi Chuck,

I'm not a 100% sure myself but I believe the delineation is that layer 3
fragmentation is seperate from ATM SAR.

SAR simply takes the layer 3 packet and chops it into 48 byte payloads and
reassembles it at the other end of the ATM link, the actual content of the
payload, the packet itself is irrelevant to that level.

At any rate we have seen sinificant improvements in BGP using an MTU of 4470
on
Gig and OC3 ATM so I want to try and increase the MTU on the link between
another couple of routers.

Darren

Chuck Larrieu wrote:

 Not knowing the ethernet side of things, but I am curious - and MTU of
4470
 on ATM? 53 byte cell size?

 I did a cursory search of the IEEE web site but didn't find much.

 Chuck

 -Original Message-
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 Darren Ward
 Sent:   Friday, December 01, 2000 7:02 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject:Fast Ethernet MTU Size

 Hi All,

 Is it at all possible to raise the MTU size on Fast Ethernet?

 I'll give you all a scenario

 ATM on one side with an MTU of 4470, fast ethernet connecting the two
 routers, Gigabit Ethernet the other side with an MTU of 4470.

 How can I raise the MTU of a Full Duplex Fast Ethernet Connection above
 1500?

 I assume it's not possible when going through switched as they will show
 every packet as a giant but in a router to router cross-over connection
 I was hoping there was some way to keep the MTU static across the path
 rather than force the routers to fragment and re-assemble (of course the
 destination re-assembles).

 Darren Ward
 CCNP, CCDP, CCIE Wannabee

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Re: Fast Ethernet MTU Size

2000-12-01 Thread Kevin Wigle

there is a "mtu" command.

In a somewhat similar situation - I had built a circuit using lan emulation
that terminated on a bvi on a 7505.

The bvi had an ip address and placed into an OSPF area.

I'm not aware of the defaults with a router that has both ATM and ethernet
but I didn't take notice of the mtu that the bvi had - I assumed that it was
just like an ethernet interface

On the distant end of the lan emulation was an ordinary router with an
ethernet interface and it was also configured into the OSPF area.

However, OSPF didn't work.  debugging showed that an adjacency wasn't being
formed.

Turning up yet more debugging - finally an error about "mtu size not equal"
was noticed.

sure enough, the bvi had the ATM mtu of 4470..

using the mtu command on the bvi interface "mtu 1500", the adjacency formed
immediately and all was well.

so, my guess would be that a fast ethernet probably has the same "mtu"
command, try it out.

Kevin Wigle

- Original Message -
From: "Darren Ward" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 01 December, 2000 22:02
Subject: Fast Ethernet MTU Size


 Hi All,

 Is it at all possible to raise the MTU size on Fast Ethernet?

 I'll give you all a scenario

 ATM on one side with an MTU of 4470, fast ethernet connecting the two
 routers, Gigabit Ethernet the other side with an MTU of 4470.

 How can I raise the MTU of a Full Duplex Fast Ethernet Connection above
 1500?

 I assume it's not possible when going through switched as they will show
 every packet as a giant but in a router to router cross-over connection
 I was hoping there was some way to keep the MTU static across the path
 rather than force the routers to fragment and re-assemble (of course the
 destination re-assembles).

 Darren Ward
 CCNP, CCDP, CCIE Wannabee

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