RE: RSVP & WFQ

2000-08-17 Thread Irwin Lazar
Have a look at http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios111/cc111/dwfq.h tm for a discussion of various flavors of WFQ. RSVP is a different animal. RSVP is used to reserve specific resources across a path. See: http://www.isi.edu/div7/rsvp/rsvp.html for a discussion of RS

RE: Class A or C??

2000-08-17 Thread Irwin Lazar
This would simply be a subnet with a 24 bit mask. Classfull boundaries (A,B,C, etc.) are a thing of the past. Irwin > -Original Message- > From: Oscar Rau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 8:37 AM > To: Cisco GroupStudy > Subject: Class A or C?? > > > We are

RE: Simple Net Traffic Generator????

2000-08-22 Thread Irwin Lazar
Have a look at Mentor Technologies' TCP throughput testing tool: http://www.mentortech.com/learn/tools/tools.shtml Irwin > -Original Message- > From: Bob Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 9:53 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Simple Net Traffic Ge

RE: MPLS Transfer Protocol ???

2000-08-23 Thread Irwin Lazar
ssume that they were either speaking of MPLS in general, or one of the MPLS label distribution protocols such as CR-LDP or RSVP-TE.   For all you ever wanted to know on MPLS and more, see the MPLS Resource Center at http://www.mplsrc.com/ .  We've got a fairly complete MPLS F

RE: UNI & PNI (ATM)

2000-08-23 Thread Irwin Lazar
See http://www.itprc.com/datalink.htm for links to information on ATM. Irwin -Original Message- From: Tapas Das [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 8:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: UNI & PNI (ATM) Dear ALL, Can somebody send me details of UNI & NNI... T

RE: MPLS Transfer Protocol ???

2000-08-23 Thread Irwin Lazar
Actually that's not entirely accurate, yes MPLS is used in many ATM networks, but MPLS is Layer 2 agnostic, it can run over ATM, Frame Relay, Ethernet, or PPP. Irwin -Original Message- From: Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 10:02 AM To: Circusnuts Cc: [EM

RE: MPLS Transfer Protocol ???

2000-08-23 Thread Irwin Lazar
I'm not sure I understand. If you use MPLS in an ATM environment, you simply replace the VCI/VPI tag with an MPLS label. Most implementations of MPLS in today's world use ATM cells at the data link layer. BTW, we might want to take this off of this list as this topic isn't related to Cisco cert

RE: $13,300 for 5 months

2000-08-23 Thread Irwin Lazar
Agreed, IMHO the role of a network administrator in coming years is going to be primarily to manage application performance across the network. This will require a solid understanding of the servers and services that support those applications. irwin > -Original Message- > From: Marshal

RE: Logging Server on NT

2000-08-23 Thread Irwin Lazar
We use SL4NT, works great and took about five minutes to install. See: http://www.netal.com/ irwin > -Original Message- > From: Kent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 5:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Logging Server on NT > >

RE: Legacy???

2000-08-24 Thread Irwin Lazar
Legacy is generally used to describe older, obsolete equipment, services, and/or technologies. For example, SNA is generally considered a legacy protocol because most networks are migrating toward IP. A Cisco AGS+ is considered a legacy device because it is no longer supported. Heck, if you are

RE: Beginner

2000-08-24 Thread Irwin Lazar
Have a look at http://www.groupstudy.com/faq/ irwin > -Original Message- > From: Brian Coffey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 4:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Beginner > > > ? Beginner for > > CCNA > > What is Recomended Books Or a Class?? >

RE: ATM Dead?

2000-08-28 Thread Irwin Lazar
Tough question. Currently, ATM is the predominant control protocol in service provider networks, but that is starting to change. The complexity of managing IP-over-ATM overlay networks, as well as the loss of efficiency due to the ATM cell-tax (especially on high-speed links) is causing many ser

RE: good,nice and cheaper

2000-08-29 Thread Irwin Lazar
> Good Morning, Falks. > > I need your help for find a equipment that integrates Fast > Ethernet and > FDDI in the same box. > The equipment must be good, nice and cheaper. > > Thanks. FDDI, cheap? Is there some requirement that mandates that you have FDDI? If you are looking for good, nice

FW: NANOG 20

2000-08-29 Thread Irwin Lazar
Thought I would pass this along: For those of you in the Washington D.C. area, NANOG 20 will be held on October 22-24 in downtown D.C. at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel, near the Metro Center metro stop.  This event represents a tremendous training opportunity for those invol

RE: access-list and telnet

2000-08-30 Thread Irwin Lazar
sure, set an access list that only permits your internal subnet. such as: access-list 1 permit 10.10.10.0 0.0.0.255 then enter the following commands: config t line vty 0 4 access-class 1 in end make sure you have a password set on your vty ports. MAKE SURE YOU TEST THIS ON A ROUTER THAT YOU

RE: A little OT - Sniffer Training

2000-09-12 Thread Irwin Lazar
Howdy, Pine mountain group, global knowledge, Network Associates "Sniffer Univerisity." Also see http://www.packet-level.com/ for wonderful resources for packet capture analysis. Irwin > -Original Message- > From: Watson, Rick, , OUSDC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, Septemb

RE: IS-IS/OSPF Comparison

2000-09-12 Thread Irwin Lazar
You might want to try looking at "Large-Scale IP Network Solutions" by Kahlid Raza (Cisco Press). It covers some of these topics, but it doesn't really provide a head-to-head comparison. However, it might provide you with the information that you need to conduct your own study. I'd also recomme

RE: Routing or Bridging?

2000-05-16 Thread Irwin Lazar
I'm a believer in the KISS principle. Given your requirements, you should be able to use bridging without any problems. I'd go with bridging and monitor line utilization. If it starts to creep up, or you are seeing high peaks, then turn on routing and WINS. Irwin > -Original Message-

RE: spanning-tree

2000-05-18 Thread Irwin Lazar
Your best bet is to get a copy of "Interconnections" by Radia Perlman. Radia wrote the Spanning Tree protocol and nobody explains it better. You can also see my web site at http://www.itprc.com/ and check out the datalink page for links to Ethernet resources. And finally, a new version of spanni

RE: spanning-tree

2000-05-19 Thread Irwin Lazar
There was a new version under development. I've got a manuscript copy but I'm not sure if the latest version is ready yet. Check Amazon or Fatbrain. Irwin -Original Message- From: Kelly Scroggins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 1:09 AM To: Irwin Lazar

RE: Network Management Softwares

2000-05-23 Thread Irwin Lazar
Good question. OpenView, Unicenter and Tivoli are the most widely "sold" products, but as far as what's actually in "use", that's a far different question. I heard from one vendor that roughly 70% of the NMS packages sold today are never used, or are only minimally used. I think you'll see a

RE: SNMP host

2000-05-24 Thread Irwin Lazar
There is a freeware SNMP client available for NT and you can use MRTG as the server. See http://www.itprc.com/nms.htm for links. Irwin -Original Message- From: Jim Bond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 4:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SNMP host Hello, I

RE: PIM

2000-05-25 Thread Irwin Lazar
Cristina, see http://www.ipmulticast.com/ for all sorts of helpful references. Irwin -Original Message- From: Cristina Hoselins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 8:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PIM All, Would you please explain to me, the main reason why

RE: BGP

2000-05-26 Thread Irwin Lazar
Both, or neither. BGP is commonly referred to as a "Path Vector" protocol. See RFC1771 "A Border Gateway Protocol": http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1771.html See http://www.itprc.com/routing.htm for several links to BGP tutorials. Irwin -Original Message- From: cisco cabanaboy [mailto:[EM

RE: Good OSPF study material

2000-05-25 Thread Irwin Lazar
See http://www.itprc.com/routing.htm -Original Message- From: Kevin Welch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 7:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Good OSPF study material I was wondering if anyone could recommend some good study material for OSPF. I am currently

RE: Whitepaper BGP Part One ?

2000-06-01 Thread Irwin Lazar
which whitepaper are you referring to? I've got links on the ITPRC to a series of papers on BGP by Dr. Peter Welcher. See http://www.itprc.com/routing.htm Irwin -Original Message- From: Hans Schimek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 4:04 AM To: cisco Subject: Whit

RE: vpn

2000-06-01 Thread Irwin Lazar
try: http://www.itprc.com/vpn.htm irwin -Original Message- From: Jesus Suarez Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 12:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: vpn I need materia of study about VPN, where can i found this material. regards __

RE: Minor Cisco QoS Rant

2000-06-04 Thread Irwin Lazar
Cisco recently introduced a product called "Quality of Service Manager". I believe the latest version is 1.1 Anyway, the purpose of the product is to allow you to easily (hah) provision QoS across your network from a single console. It might be the answer to your needs. Irwin -Original Me

RE: ATM vs Gigabit Ethernet

2000-06-05 Thread Irwin Lazar
It depends on your application requirements. Do you have any applications that require guaranteed levels of QoS? Do you have applications with other requirements that only ATM can support, and/or that justify the additional cost and complexity of ATM? For the most part, we rarely recommend ATM

RE: To the experts who have been in the game a while - Question???

2000-06-06 Thread Irwin Lazar
I'd recommend the Dale Carnegie course.   As far as technical know-how, IMHO the first step is a solid understanding of TCP/IP.   Irwin -Original Message-From: Stephen.B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 3:38 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: To the expert

RE: Good BGP book?

2000-06-06 Thread Irwin Lazar
Internet Routing Architectures - Version 2, by Basam Halabi. Also, see http://www.itprc.com/routing.htm for links to BGP resources. And, CertificationZone - http://www.certificationzone.com/ has a BGP tutorial that folks have been raving over. Don't forget that this list is archived at http:/

RE: ATM

2000-06-07 Thread Irwin Lazar
Hi Oscar, ATM isn't really a LAN technology. It's actually a multi-purpose technology that was designed to effectively carry multiple types of traffic (such as voice, video and data) in a variety of environments. In fact, we no longer recommend ATM for LAN environments as Gigabit Ethernet is che

RE: ATM

2000-06-07 Thread Irwin Lazar
It depends on which backbone you are talking about. :-) AT&T is currently offering IP-Enabled Frame Relay Services that are based on Frame-Relay access into an ATM-cell based cloud using MPLS as the control plane. In this manner, data is transported in 53-byte ATM cells, but circuit provisioning

RE: Cisco drawing tool

2000-06-07 Thread Irwin Lazar
Pacestar Software offers a tool called LanFlow that is nice. See http://www.pacestar.com/lanflow/index.html. You can get a free 30 day trial. BTW, we use Powerpoint for most of our drawings. It actually works pretty well. Irwin -Original Message- From: LORENZO Juan Ignacio [mailto:[E

RE: NAT for ISPs

2000-06-07 Thread Irwin Lazar
Howard, I seem to remember @home trying to base their network on RFC 1918 addressing, and then petitioning for a Class "A" after they ran into problems with users that were trying to play games across the Internet. It seems that many games rely on a unique IP address to identify users. Does this

RE: MPLS Basic

2000-06-08 Thread Irwin Lazar
The router will segment the packet and assign a label to each segment. It is important to note that SAR is handled at layer 2 for Ethernet. MPLS is really simply a control plane, it doesn't handle functions such as SAR. See The MPLS Resource Center at http://www.mplsrc.com/ for a wealth of MPLS

RE: ATM

2000-06-09 Thread Irwin Lazar
The only problem with 10GB Ethernet is that the standard is about 2 years away from ratification. For the next few years, interoperability is going to be a large concern. Irwin -Original Message- From: Byron Bean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 10:22 PM To: [E

RE: ATM

2000-06-14 Thread Irwin Lazar
See http://www.itprc.com/datalink.htm for several resources. I'd also suggest you take a look at Cisco's web site and find the proper configuration guide for your IOS version. Irwin -Original Message- From: Vic Feferberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 4:58 AM

RE: ATM

2000-06-14 Thread Irwin Lazar
This topic has been discussed on several firewall and security-related mailing lists and isn't really related to cisco certifications. Try http://www.itprc.com/security.htm for links to several related lists or www.remarq.com Irwin -Original Message- From: krishnakanth S [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: CCIE Groupstudy - for all

2000-06-14 Thread Irwin Lazar
I've added a few more links to Cisco certification resources to the ITPRC - http://www.itprc.com/training.htm One of the links is a pretty good list of tips from someone who just got their certification. Let me know if there are any good links that I'm missing. Irwin __

RE: Good pix resources?

2000-06-15 Thread Irwin Lazar
There are a few books out there, but your best bet is the Cisco web site. Irwin -Original Message- From: Kevin Welch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 1:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Good pix resources? If anyone has any good links/books on PIX configuratio

RE: ??good Case study on LAN/WAN

2000-06-15 Thread Irwin Lazar
Cisco Press released a book last year called Desigining Large Scale Internetworks. It's well worth reading. Irwin -Original Message- From: Dinesh_Kakkar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 2:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ??good Case study on LAN/WAN hello f

RE: VoIP Fundamentals (Cisco Press)

2000-06-15 Thread Irwin Lazar
see: http://www.itprc.com/voice.htm -Original Message- From: Mari Misato [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: VoIP Fundamentals (Cisco Press) Hi Group Has anyone got any recommendations about VoIP other than the Cisco Press boo

RE: Layer 3 switching vs. Layer 4 switching?

2000-06-15 Thread Irwin Lazar
Layer 4 switching means that a router can forward packets based on L4 information such as TCP port #. This can be used to prioritize specific applications and is currently supported by most vendors. Products from vendors such as Allot, Top Layer and others can even make decisions based on higher

RE: General Theory

2000-06-16 Thread Irwin Lazar
e=mc^2 has been my favorite, but now I'm hearing that one researcher has exceeded the speed of light, so now I don't know what to believe anymore. Irwin -Original Message- From: tazar Ing [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 4:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Genera

RE: 802.1q

2000-06-16 Thread Irwin Lazar
Try the following: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/index.html - IEEE 802 standards comittee page Alteon's web site has a lot of good resources as well. Irwin -Original Message- From: Farooq Ali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 10:21 AM To: cisco GroupStudy

RE: Is this true?

2000-06-16 Thread Irwin Lazar
Yes. You do not need to take any prior exams before taking the CCIE (at least not yet anyway, :-) ) All that you need to do to obtain the CCIE is to pass a written exam, followed by a two-day lab exam at a Cisco facility. Sounds easy doesn't it? Irwin -Original Message- From: Victor I

RE: L3 switch that support Gigabit Ethernet

2000-06-20 Thread Irwin Lazar
The 6500 is a pretty competent box, though it's a bit more expensive in terms of price to performance compared with boxes from competitors such as Extreme & Foundry. Irwin -Original Message- From: BB [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 1:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su

RE: VISIEO??? HELP!! Need Icons

2000-06-20 Thread Irwin Lazar
You can get visio icons at www.netcerts.com, you can also get a free download of a pretty nice drawing package from pacestar software at www.pacestar.com irwin -Original Message- From: Brandon Carroll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 6:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: RTP, North Carolina

2000-06-24 Thread Irwin Lazar
Outside of Raliegh. See: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/687/rtp.html for maps/directions. -Original Message- From: Joe Dewberry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 12:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RTP, North Carolina Where is the RTP located in North Carol

RE: Review of Cisco Aironet

2000-06-27 Thread Irwin Lazar
We're using 802.11b in our office and we love it. We use the Apple AirPort base station, which is made by Lucent but sells for only $299. It supports up to 10 users but you need a Macintosh to configure it (or a freeware Java app). As far as NICs, we're using Lucent PCMCIA cards. We're getting

FW: Marconi Announces New Technical Education Certification Program

2000-06-28 Thread Irwin Lazar
FYI: Marconi's primary component is the former FORE systems. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 8:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Marconi Announces New Technical Education Certification Program Marconi Annou

Cisco warns of router vulnerability

2000-07-05 Thread Irwin Lazar
FYI: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/iostelnetopt-pub.shtml   Cisco Routers Vulnerable to Scanners   Monday, June 26, 2000 - Cisco Systems is reminding customers that its hardware may crash when certain vulnerability checks are   

RE: Book + Resources about WEB security

2000-07-05 Thread Irwin Lazar
Building Internet Firewalls by Chapman http://www.itprc.com/security.htm Irwin -Original Message- From: George Zhang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 10:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Book + Resources about WEB security I would like to know that best boo

RE: RESEND: WAN Books info reqd.

2000-07-06 Thread Irwin Lazar
T1 networking - by William Flanagan Also see my web site at http://www.itprc.com/ for tons of resources on WANs irwin -Original Message- From: Senthilvel Rangaswamy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 3:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RESEND: WAN Books info req

RE: Access Lists

2000-07-07 Thread Irwin Lazar
Hi Guys, Just as a side note to the current ACL discussions, I recently added a section to my web site that contains a collection of articles and resources that deal with Cisco ACL issues. See http://www.itprc.com/security.htm The articles are: Access Lists: Tricks of the Trade - CertificationZ

RE: Access-list

2000-07-07 Thread Irwin Lazar
Hi Sanjay, Could you post your list so we can take a look? Irwin -Original Message- From: Sanjay.Padmanabhan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 8:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Access-list Hi all, We have an access-list that has to allow ony DNS and SMTP

RE: Connecting 3 subnets with Cisco routers??

2000-07-07 Thread Irwin Lazar
Not necessarily, you can use ISL to carry all three VLANs across a single link. You can also use an RSM in Cat5xxx and do the routing directly on the switch via virtual router interfaces. To answer your other questions, your default gateway is whatever IP address in each subnet that you want it

RE: Any special ports for Outlook Web access?

2000-07-12 Thread Irwin Lazar
Howdy, Port 80 and if you are doing SSL, port 443. Note that if you want to give remote Outlook clients access to an Exchange Server, you can statically set the ports to use. There is a Microsoft Technote on their web site as to how to do this, it involves editing the registry a bit. Irwin ---

RE: access-list ?

2000-07-12 Thread Irwin Lazar
There are several books on the topics and I maintain a list of on-line resources at http://www.itprc.com/security.htm Irwin -Original Message- From: Ronnie Toolte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 1:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: access-list ? Does anyone

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