MPLS MTU on 29XX/35XX-XL? [7:34464]

2002-02-05 Thread Andy Harding
hi all, anyone know whether MPLS-size MTUs are supported on the 29XX/35XX-XL switches? and if so, from what IOS revision? thnx -andy Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=34464&t=34464 -- FAQ, list archives, and sub

anyone going to RIPE-40? [7:19139]

2001-09-08 Thread Andy Harding
seems like a good time to meet up, for those who would like, will be there, etc. maybe see whether we can snag a meeting roomn for an hour or so .. ? - maybe we can grab HCB and/or other players... any comments, ideas, etc. welcome be nice, and maybe I can organize... ;-) let me know -a M

OT: UK DSL [7:19138]

2001-09-08 Thread Andy Harding
hey, anyone found a decent UK BT DSL solution? what I am looking for is some kind of hardware firewall solution for the (aaauugh!!) USB connection you get (unless you have less sense than money - ie business enet presentation) I have looked at the linix solution, which doesn't really do if for

OTish: pVLANs across non-cisco switches?? [7:14992]

2001-08-05 Thread Andy Harding
hi all, right, bit of an odd one maybe... i am in a situation whereby i have a a datacentre architecture with mixed-vendor (cisco/foundry) kit. i have multiple cisco 6509s as distribution-layer, and a pair of foundry BigIrons as core (dual trunk uplinks, etc.). can i run pVLANs on the dist-lay

Re: Off Topic - forbidden words [7:13271]

2001-07-22 Thread Andy Harding
Boy6872 wrote on July 22, 2001 at 10:47 PM: > Way to go, Chuck. > Keep the wankers in check and maintain the CCIE merit and validity! > Rob H. CCNP, CCDP, CCIE WR > WR - wassat then? WAN Routing? if it is "Written", as I suspect since I don't see a #, then the irony is obviously lost on you A

Re: LSA type-5 suppression across OSPF area boundaries?? [7:12929]

2001-07-19 Thread Andy Harding
why don't people take Juniper questions to the Juniper > Groupstudy > news group? I know for a fact that a number of folks within Juniper lurk on > that newsgroup but not on the Cisco one. > > > -Julian > > > ""Andy Harding"" wrote in messa

Re: LSA type-5 suppression across OSPF area boundaries?? [7:12905]

2001-07-18 Thread Andy Harding
** excuse the change of email and name - just changed provider on a Juniper: [edit protocols ospf] root@router# show export type-5-suppress; area 0.0.0.10 { area-range 172.16.0.0/16; } [edit policy-options] root@router# show policy-statement type-5-suppress { term area-0-suppress {

Re: LSA type-5 suppression across OSPF area boundaries?? [7:12890]

2001-07-18 Thread Andy Harding
** excuse the change of address/name - have migrated between providers. DSL now :-) Nnanna, thanks for the reply - I'm pretty certain that this is a solution to a different problem. If you look closely at the text, what is being achieved is avoiding additional hops within an area by having non

what ASes are we? [7:7252]

2001-06-05 Thread Andy Harding
something that would facinate me would be a show of hands relating to who is with which AS, and maybe where else they had been in their illustrious past? personally I have been 8372/8220, and am now 2914 Andy ps - info for identification, not representation Message Posted at: http://www.gro

NT vs UNIX [7:6844]

2001-06-01 Thread Andy Harding
PLEASE Enough!! set up your own mail-list if need be, but please quit with this nonsense on this *CISCO* *NETWORKING* mail-list Paul - any chance you can filter this thread out? thanks Andy Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=6844&t=6844 --

IS-IS queries [7:6638]

2001-05-31 Thread Andy Harding
as we seem to be getting more IS-IS stuff on the list, maybe someone could help me out here. I am having real trouble seeing how IS-IS areas and levels fit together. As far as I can make out the numbering of areas is arbitary, and all L2 routers should be in the same area, with the L1/L2 and the

Re: Terminal Server [7:3939]

2001-05-11 Thread Andy Harding
ginal Message - From: "LandCai" To: "Andy Harding" Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 3:51 AM Subject: Re: Terminal Server [7:3939] > Hi, Dear Andy, > > Could you let me know if this CAB-SS-232-MT is terminated into RJ45 connector? Because serveral my router and swit

Re: Terminal Server [7:3939]

2001-05-10 Thread Andy Harding
if you really only have a switch and a router then you could get away with the WIC-2TA/S with two CAB-SS-232-MT cables and a pair of standard console cables. If you just want to console from the router to the switch the use the AUX port with a standard console cable. mid-range would be the 4-por

Re: Route metrics on broadcast networks [7:3308]

2001-05-07 Thread Andy Harding
made sense this time ;-) regards Andy - Original Message - From: "EA Louie" To: "Andy Harding" ; Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 7:01 PM Subject: Re: Route metrics on broadcast networks [7:3308] > see these pages: > > http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/

Route metrics on broadcast networks [7:3308]

2001-05-05 Thread Andy Harding
bit of a teaser I have been thinking about for a while, and haven't really been able to get clear in my mind: how do routing protocols calculate metrics on broadcast networks where the metric may be different between different neighbors? As an example, say you have a core router with a GE downli

Re: Transit traffic

2000-08-18 Thread Andy Harding
transit means where traffic from a direct BGP peer is not destined for your AS - ie it transits your AS to go somewhere else. this is common between service providers, but ISP customers will typically take their upstream as transit, but the ISP not use the customer as transit hth Andy - Or

Re: 3640 rommom> xmodem -r (download IOS...

2000-07-11 Thread Andy Harding
Peter,   you need the confreg to be 0x2102 - see:   http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/474/pswdrec_1600.html   also on the 36X0s you can do a tftpdnld and drap an image off a tftp server from the rommon mode (damn sight quicker than xmodem'ing it) - need to set up the ip details first tho   HTH

Re: E1 question

2000-07-11 Thread Andy Harding
bit shaky on this, but here goes... there is a standard - G.703/704 - it's not just a cisco thing T/S 0 is used for signalling, the remaining 31 channels (1-31) are used for data - hence the 1,984kb/s bandwidth rather than the 2,048 you might expect. Under a cisco E1 you would configure a virtua

Re: MSFC Routing

2000-06-30 Thread Andy Harding
Daryn, you don't say which switch you can't ping from the server do you have a vlan interface (as opposed to a vlan) defined in the 2924 switch? by default the IOS will only create an interface for vlan 1, and will only let you have one interface live at one time - a bit like having the sc0

Re: NAT

2000-06-26 Thread Andy Harding
'fraid not - what I normally do for this sort of stuff is copy and paste to a text editor, and stick a "no" in front of each entry, then copy-paste back in - especially good for large access-lists (although remember to put a "no access-list xxx" in front of the paste back.   Andy   Mark <[EM

Re: Off Topic Is Star Trek Transport UDP or TCP? WASRE: Making a switch behave like a hub

2000-06-19 Thread Andy Harding
Along the same daft lines what are the chances of getting a groupstudy search engine based on bgp regexps? maybe something like: sh groupstudy msg regexp _Howard C Berkowitz_ sh groupstudy msg regexp ^Radia Perlman$ just have to avoid discussions on private peering must get out a lit

Static OSPF neighbors?

2000-06-08 Thread Andy Harding
Is there any way of specifying OSPF neighbors statically?  I know of the method whereby you specify neighbors on NBMA-multipoint-type networks, but I want to specify a list of neighbors to form adjacencies with and barr all others.  I have had a look and the only way I can find of doing this

Re: Unable to load IOS to flash

2000-06-08 Thread Andy Harding
don't know for certin, but a way back I had a knackered flash and I think on this level of router you can get around this type of thing by formatting the flash (maybe...) or try partitioning it, then de-partitioning it. If all else fails then replace it - not a huge amount of money HTH Andy ---

L3 keepalives without routing protocol?

2000-06-08 Thread Andy Harding
Hi all,   strange problem for y'all...   I have a problem whereby a down circuit does not necessarily "down" an interface (via ATM switch - am using OAM but not foolproof).  Is there some way that I can enable a L3 keepalive without running a global IGP (bear in mind that this is between my c

Re: tftp program...

2000-06-08 Thread Andy Harding
much nicer: ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/utilbin/win32/3cd209.zip include tftp client and server, ftp server and SYSLOG (so useful you would not believe it till you try it). sorry to stray off the Cisco line but this is so cool... Andy - Original Message - From: Deepak Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: WS-C1912-A Question.......

2000-06-08 Thread Andy Harding
Yup - just tftp upload the sucker no problems - the Enterprise s/w is better than that of the original 2900XL-series switches - ie supports trunking - nice little switch to partner with your cat5-alike, play around with vlan STP priorities on the dual 100-base uplinks, permit different vlans on t

Re: Free Poster:Security, From Lucent

2000-06-08 Thread Andy Harding
Good stuff, always concerned about the security of my posters... Andy - Original Message - From: Makarand Yerawadekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 8:38 AM Subject: Free Poster:Security, From Lucent > > Check the URL > > http://www.lucent-net

Re: VLAN Trunk traffic question

2000-06-08 Thread Andy Harding
switch=bridge (multiport in ASIC) = transparent, MAC address learning-type thing, hence broadcast > all switches (with that VLAN) unicast > switch with attached MAC address proviso: first packet of unicast stream to unknown MAC > broadcast (to determine attached switch) maybe a little after th

Re: BGP Routers Available

2000-06-08 Thread Andy Harding
Try any of the Looking Glasses, suggest: http://nitrous.digex.net/ this is basically a remote shell (rsh) into an IXP/NAP Cisco router which lets you do a little more than it seems - try doing "reg ^$" from the BGP radio button and you'll see any routes originated from your AS, etc, etc. check

Re: new version of 802.1q?

2000-06-05 Thread Andy Harding
June 05, 2000 3:38 PM Subject: Re: new version of 802.1q? I believe 802.1s is the standards group working on Spanning Forest (per vlan stp) "Andy Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 01f801bfce8a$c41bace0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:01f801bfc

Re: Password recovery on Cat 2924 XL ?

2000-06-04 Thread Andy Harding
search on "password recovery 2924XL" or http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/474/10.html or Catalyst 2900XL and 3500XL Password Recovery Unplug the power cord from the back of the switch. While holding down the "Mode" button, reconnect the power cord to the switch. You can release the "Mode" butt

Fw: Newbie Access-List question

2000-06-04 Thread Andy Harding
> access-list <100-199> permit tcp > host range 20 21 > access-list <100-199> permit tcp any host eq 80 > > you can use any extended access-list # (100-199) - extended for > source/destination/traffic-type - permit 20 and 21 (ftp and ftp-data) for > your address space, and permit www/http (

Fw: issues with HSRP

2000-06-04 Thread Andy Harding
> Don, > > what Cisco are telling you is rubbish - if you have the exact same configs > on both MSFCs then nothing will work - you can't have the same IP addresses > on the physical cards, same priorities, both with/without preempt, etc... > > I run 6509s with MSFCs with 100+ HSRP sessions per

Fw: OSPF vs ISIS

2000-06-04 Thread Andy Harding
> try hiring staff with IS-IS experience...;-) > > - Original Message - > From: Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2000 6:08 PM > Subject: OSPF vs ISIS > > > > It looks to me that everybody prefers OSPF in our > > company, just wondering any rea

Fw: whats a nibble?

2000-06-04 Thread Andy Harding
> thought that it was 2 hex characters- hence the hex reverse of each nibble > in Ethernet to Token Ring bridging conversion > > failing that a sub-byte portion of a multi-byte string for manipulation of > some kind? > > someone put me straight please... > > Andy > - Original Message - > F

Re: How to make redundancy using BGP?

2000-06-04 Thread Andy Harding
I work for a european ISP as a network engineer and get this kind of cr*p all the time If you are SERIOUS about redundancy the go get an AS# and some PI (Provider Independant) space from ARIN, etc - multi-home with two ISPs, take a full routing table, advertise your own routes, AS#, etc. ie take

new version of 802.1q?

2000-06-04 Thread Andy Harding
have been having (semi) argument at work about dot1q versus ISL   my understanding is that dot 1q runs one instance of spanning tree per trunk, rather than per vlan as ISL does - hence if one VLAN is blocking then dot1q disables the entire trunk   A collegue of mine reckons that dot 1q now do

Re: Bridging ?

2000-06-04 Thread Andy Harding
not a real useful reply Gerwin... certain schenarios call for this technology - mainly for legacy IBM-type networking (in my experience) - SNA and the like. I don't have a whole lot of experience doing this in a LAN environment but have done a bunch of DLSw+ stuff. Also here is DECNet, LAT, Net

Cat 2901 for sale - UK only

2000-06-04 Thread Andy Harding
Anyone interested in a Catalyst 2901 for lab study?   "Classic" Catalyst command line as per Cat 5000/5500, 600/6500.  Supervisor I with 2 X 100-base-T/MII, line card with 12 X 10/100-base-T.  Supports VLANs, ISL, trunking, FEC, etc.   Great lab switch - sad to sell but have 6509s with MSFC