Re: First Impressions - CCIE Practical Studies [7:32237]

2002-01-17 Thread Dr Rita Puzmanova
I must join the discussion and add some of my most recent experience here with Addison Wesley ;-) They used their external reviewer and I must say they chose him very well. I am sure I would not be able to do such a thorough review he did. Of course, I had quite a few peer (voluntary) reviewers

Re: IP Packet options [7:31364]

2002-01-09 Thread Dr Rita Puzmanova
The best source is the IPv4 standard RFC 791: The Options provide for control functions needed or useful in some situations but unnecessary for the most common communications. The options include provisions for timestamps, security, and special routingThe options may appear or not in

Re: About Frame Relay [7:29383]

2001-12-17 Thread Dr Rita Puzmanova
See also Frame Relay Forum for basic guide, tutorials, primers and specs (Implementation Agreements). http://www.frforum.com Very briefly: Frame Relay architecture encompasses only the lowest two layers hence the _frame relay_ - at link layer. The bottom two layers are just enough (even more

Re: which layer do the ospf bgp rip work on [7:20953]

2001-09-25 Thread Dr Rita Puzmanova
Keeping myself - hopefully - unbiased in this spelling discussion (not being native English speaker) I would like to point out - FYI - that FIBRE CHANNEL is the ANSI standard?! Rita MADMAN wrote: Ah yes I should have known it was a British spelling, like centre, fibre, behaviour etc...

Deepest sympathy from Europe [7:19463]

2001-09-11 Thread Dr Rita Puzmanova
...hope you are all OK there... Damn the terrorists :-((( Rita Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=19463t=19463 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report

Re: Question regarding RFC bis [7:11685]

2001-07-10 Thread Dr Rita Puzmanova
Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: Has anyone ever noticed that certain RFCs have a bis version ? ie RFC 2547bis. Anyone know what that means ? bis is Latin, IIRC, for second, and ter is third. Bis and ter are actually used in ITU/CCITT documents for revisions. My understanding is that bis,

Re: ARP and TCP/IP layering [7:8335]

2001-06-15 Thread Dr Rita Puzmanova
Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: The topic that will never die... :-) Right because I am getting more and more confused by the thread I (inadvertently) started ;-( The more I wanted to get away from OSI reference model, the closer we got. I thought we could do without (anyway TCP/IP is older than

Re: LLC Type 2 [7:8262]

2001-06-15 Thread Dr Rita Puzmanova
Final results of some search: For information (using my father's notes) the CCITT books-of-recommendations' colors were the following: - green in 1972, - yellow in 1980, - red in 1984 - blue in 1988 (last 4-year-book). mutters because I distinctly remember an Orange Book. 1976? I have

Re: ARP and TCP/IP layering [7:8335]

2001-06-14 Thread Dr Rita Puzmanova
about its own layering system - at the beginning they for sure managed to fit the pieces in the puzzle (I mean protocols) according to their original, simple 4-layer-architecture. Sorry for being s persistent ;-) Rita Dr Rita Puzmanova wrote: Hi all, Trivial yet fundamental question. I

Re: LLC Type 2 [7:8262]

2001-06-13 Thread Dr Rita Puzmanova
This is quite interesting discussion going back into the roots of the current networking (which is in many ways quite a useful exercise, yet not performed often enough). I wish my father who was quite active in these network-forming days could add his knowledgeable views here - unfortunately, it

Payload length in IPv6 datagram [7:8336]

2001-06-13 Thread Dr Rita Puzmanova
Hi all, I would appreciate your insight in the following question I have received from my student. My answer follows but I am not sure I have not missed some important piece here. Q: Why was the meaning of the packet length parameter changed from total length to payload length when moving from

ARP and TCP/IP layering [7:8335]

2001-06-13 Thread Dr Rita Puzmanova
Hi all, Trivial yet fundamental question. I have seen ARP described as part of the network (internet) layer so many times that I have started to believe it belongs there (although I know well that it operates as if the Layer 2 protocol - as per OSI RM). Now I have eventually come across Doug

Re: What is the difference between flooded broadcast and direct [7:479]

2001-04-13 Thread Dr Rita Puzmanova
Some additional notes: A directed broadcast to all hosts on a particular distant subnet/network is in current IOS version implicitly not allowed (no ip directed-broadcast) although generally this type of broadcast in processed by router without any problem (correctly as per its routing table).

Off-topic: On-line course in TCP/IP [7:480]

2001-04-13 Thread Dr Rita Puzmanova
Hi all, The discussion on this group concerning learning resources is mostly about self-study (books and other vast - not only Cisco - resources, including the group postings), or instructor-led courses provided by Cisco Training/Learning partners. I wonder whether someone has ever taken an

Re: Off-topic: On-line course in TCP/IP [7:480]

2001-04-13 Thread Dr Rita Puzmanova
technology in general. Most of the real work of the IETF is done via mailing lists. Is this part of a degree program. Don - Original Message - From: "Dr Rita Puzmanova" To: Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 6:47 AM Subject: Off-topic: On-line course in TCP/IP [