Re: ISL Trunking on Cat 5500

2000-09-13 Thread Karen . Young
Bill, A link that is trunking does not belong to any VLAN. However, if trunking goes down, then the ports at either end of the link revert to their "native" VLAN. If no VLAN has been assigned to those ports, then they default to VLAN 1. VLAN 1 is the VLAN that carries CDP, STP, VTP, and other c

Re: Bring equipments in and out of US

2000-09-18 Thread Karen . Young
Indeed. I believe the form you're looking for is CF4457 "Certificate of Registration for Personal Effects Taken Abroad". Instructions are at http://www.customs.gov/travel/4457.htm Karen E Young Network Engineer ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: copy config answer who is John Galt

2000-09-19 Thread Karen . Young
Gee. Last I checked, John Galt was a ficticious person in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged". Very popular with Libertarians. http://globalfreedom.com/jg_index.html Karen E Young ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: native vlan

2000-09-20 Thread Karen . Young
Benny, Try thinking of trunking as a "service" that runs on the access links, multiplexing traffic from multiple vlans. Those links have a native VLAN that they revert to if trunking breaks down. For example, if you reboot a switch and it's unable to negotiate the trunking due to a mismatch in t

Re: trunk problem

2000-09-26 Thread Karen . Young
Think about it for a second. Both sides have to speak the same language. That means speed, duplex, encapsulation, and trunking mode. While you may be able to fudge the trunking mode bit of things, the rest of it you can't. If the speed and duplex are set to auto there's a good chance that it'll p

Re: SECURITY PROTOCOLS

2000-10-02 Thread Karen . Young
RADIUS: RFC 2138, 2139 - (uses port 1812) TACACS+: RFC 1492 - (uses port 49) Karen E Young ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk: 206-770-4035 Pager: 206-994-4514

Re: Switching objectives..

2000-10-02 Thread Karen . Young
There are a few chapters on ATM (and LANE & MPOA) in LAN Switching by Kennedy Clark. ISBN 1578700949 Alternatively... http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/Support/PSP/psp_view.pl?p=Internetworking:ATM:LANE http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/Support/PSP/psp_view.pl?p=Internetworking:ATM:ATM_General http://w

Re: SECURITY PROTOCOLS

2000-10-02 Thread Karen . Young
Sorry, should have specified. Both RADIUS and TACACS+ use UDP. If you stop to think about it, the needs of authentication are better served by a connectionless protocol. The client sends a request and the server sends a response. Much like DNS, DHCP, and PAP or CHAP. In alot of cases, you can d

Re: Cisco ITO

2000-10-09 Thread Karen . Young
Brian, ITO looks like it has the same info as ITH. You can see this especially clearly by taking a look at these two URLs. http://www.cisco.com/cpress/cc/td/cpress/fund/ith2nd/it2403.htm http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/introwan.htm The first is from the sample chapters f

Re: [questions about vines]

2000-10-09 Thread Karen . Young
12.1? I don't think so. While 12.1 does support it, its hardly the "minimum". I've seen Vines configuration info for system software version 8.3 and Vines is certainly available in IOS 10.2 and later. The configuration guides are usually located in the "Network Protocols Configuration Guide, Par

RE: HSRP question --help

2000-10-11 Thread Karen . Young
Dean, Whether or not you use the VLAN id as the group ID is up to you. On my network I have one VLAN running over one HSRP group and three others running over another just to balance out the load on 2 T1s. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10

RE: How to get the running config of routers using SNMP

2000-07-13 Thread Karen . Young
copy run tftp may be faster, but there are times when you may want to use SNMP instead. For example, when you have a large number of devices and you want to track changes to the configs. Use SNMP to back up the config if it detects a change. You can then script things to compare the previous conf

Re: portfast and router

2000-07-14 Thread Karen . Young
Chen, You don't want to enable portfast on ANY port that hooks up to a multiport device. Switch, router, hub, even a multi-homed server. Only enable it on a device that has a SINGLE connection to the network. Even at that it would be a good idea to set up the portfast guard stuff unless you can

RE: Building Scalable Cisco Networks : Exam 640-503

2000-07-14 Thread Karen . Young
The link should be http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ics/icsbgp4.htm Karen E Young Network Engineer ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk: 425-369-5369 Fax: 425-391-1774 Pager: 206-994-4514

Re: Announcements

2000-07-17 Thread Karen . Young
it depends Catalyst OS - "set logging session disable" Cisco IOS - "no logging monitor" HTH Karen E Young ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk: 206-770-4035 Pager: 206-994-4514

Re: VPN and NAT

2000-07-18 Thread Karen . Young
There is a presentation from Networkers that covers this (as well as the problems with IPSec and HSRP), complete with sample configs. http://www.cisco.com/networkers/nw00/pres/2402.pdf (Advanced IPSec Deployment Scenarios) HTH Karen E Young ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk: 206-

Re: Ethernet switches and DHCP problem

2000-07-21 Thread Karen . Young
I've run into this one personally. Not only can't you get an IP address, but on a faster machine, you can start domain login before you actually have network connectivity too. If you add things like trunking and PAgP to the mix, the delay is even longer. Thats why I turn off EtherChannel and Tru

Re: subnet vs. Vlan

2000-07-21 Thread Karen . Young
I beg to differ on this one. I'm currently dealing with a network that has 4 VLANs. Two of those VLANs use multiple subnets. the only thing you need to do to make another subnet work on a VLAN is a secondary IP on the router interface for that VLAN. Remember - VLANs are layer 2 (MAC address), not

RE: VLAN Dumb question

2000-07-21 Thread Karen . Young
I have a situation where I have all traffic going through a firewall and one of the VLANs shouldn't talk to the other VLANs. I just put a router between the switches and the firewall and null routed traffic from the restricted VLAN to any of the other VLANs. Karen E Young Network Engineer ELF Te

Re: HSRP

2000-07-26 Thread Karen . Young
According the RFC 2281 its "Hot Standby Router Protocol". HTH Karen E Young Network Engineer ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] "A Brandon"

Re: 64 VLAN's on a Cat 1912 switch?

2000-07-27 Thread Karen . Young
The big reason that the switch needs to be able to _support_ 64 VLANs is VTP. If you have a number of 1912's acting as VTP clients to, say, a Cat 4006 with 35 VLANs configured then the client switches need to be able to support information for at least 35 VLANs. This is irrespective of whether t

Re: Connecting Switches, hubs..

2000-07-27 Thread Karen . Young
Since we seen to be doing the Spanning Tree simulations today... Imagine what happens when you have two instances of STP running, one per VLAN on VLAN 100 and VLAN 200, and then hook both VLAN 100 and VLAN 200 to the same hub. :-) Have fun! Karen E Young Network Engineer ELF Technologies, Inc

Re: Connecting Switches, hubs..

2000-07-27 Thread Karen . Young
Oh it was! :-) One of the R&D people wanted to be able to access his test server from his desktop machine. When we told him "No!" he decided to get creative. Our boy decided to do this while I was out of town at the Las Vegas Networkers. They had the network crashing 3-4 times/day the entire tim

RE: TEI & SAPI

2000-07-27 Thread Karen . Young
Actually, it shows up more than once. In the sample output from the "show isdn status" listed just above the table, sapi and tei are listed under layer 2. :-) TEI and SAPI are part of the address field of an LAPD frame - which is Layer 2. If you want further info about them, check out this: htt

Re: Taking ACRC Tomorrow

2000-07-28 Thread Karen . Young
It seems to me that unless he's already taken the CIT exam, he'll have to study it anyway. Besides, learning is a _good_ thing. It increases your worth to current/prospective employers. :-) Karen E Young NEtwork Engineer ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a ccna question-help

2000-07-28 Thread Karen . Young
They _are_ all protocols. ATM = Mostly Physical & Data Link but shows up in Network (encapsulation, signalling, transmission, etc) Token-Ring = LAN Physical & Data Link layer protocol (wiring, tokens) FDDI = Physical & Data LInk layer protocol (wiring, frame control & route information) Eth

Effects on convergence...

2000-07-28 Thread Karen . Young
Greetings! I was wondering if anyone knew the specifics on just how much of an effect that PAgP, VTP, and DTP would have on convergence times. I had this info once upon a time but someone lost the document and we can't determine when, who, or where it might have strayed to. I looked on CCO but th

RE: a ccna question-help

2000-07-31 Thread Karen . Young
Karen Young writes: >

RE: a ccna question-help

2000-07-31 Thread Karen . Young
EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mooney Drew-DMOONEY1 Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 3:18 PM To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: a ccna question-help Karen Young writes: >Of course, you could look at it this way... If it has an RFC then chances >are its a protocol. &g

RE: Effects on convergence...

2000-07-31 Thread Karen . Young
Okay... Since this isn't answering my question. Let me rephrase... How much time does PAgP take to do it's negotiation on a given port? DTP? Assume that the port is set to either desirable or auto in both cases. Karen E Young Network Engineer ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 3DES encryption

2000-07-31 Thread Karen . Young
This has a good explanation. http://www.ssh.fi/tech/crypto/algorithms.html Karen E Young Network Engineer ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fomes Ia

Re: spanning-tree

2000-08-01 Thread Karen . Young
Elmer, Spanning tree uses the _lowest_ value, not the highest. By raising the value, you're guaranteeing that traffic will go opposite of what you want. Also, you need to lower the bridge priority, not the port priority or port cost.. The default value is 32K (32768). Just change this to 16K or

RE: where do live

2000-08-01 Thread Karen . Young
It does NOT rain all the time. Its just propaganda to keep people from moving here from California. :-) Seriously, it does tend to be gray skyed more than is really necessary but you can count on only having a couple days of snow a year (slushy snow at that). When it does rain it tends to be fai

Re: sniffer training where?

2000-08-02 Thread Karen . Young
Try these spots... Pine Mountain Group http://www.pmg.com/ or http://www.networktraining.com/ or http://www.netanalyst.com/ CCTI Security Training http://www.ccti.com/courses/courses.asp?division=14&courses=0&cities=&month =-1 Radcom Academy http://www.radcom-inc.com/acad/seminar.htm Karen E

RE: Transfer utilisation

2000-08-02 Thread Karen . Young
You can run MRTG on Win NT too.. Here's a URL with some useful info for it. http://www.wtcs.org/snmp4tpc/mrtg.htm Karen E Young Network Engineer ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sniffer

2000-08-04 Thread Karen . Young
Check out WebBoy from NDG Software. http://www.ndgsoftware.com/ (From their web page) "WebBoy is a complete Internet/Intranet monitoring package. It provides statistics on standard Web tr

Re: MCNS (v2.0) questions

2000-08-07 Thread Karen . Young
Haven't taken the exam but there's an outline for the MCNS course on the Cisco site. http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/front.x/wwtraining/course_description.pl?Course=TRN-MCNS&Version=2.0&From=Network_Management watch the word wrap Karen E Young Network Engineer ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PR

Re: Network Design Question

2000-08-08 Thread Karen . Young
I wouldn't call it load-balancing so much as it's load-sharing. On routers where you have multiple interfaces for VLANs configured, you can make one router the primary for certain interfaces/VLANs and the second router the primary for the rest. Here's a sample config showing what I mean. Router

RE: IP classless/Default routes

2000-08-08 Thread Karen . Young
Or you could substitute "public" for "customer" in the URL and get to it anyway. http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/105/default.html Karen E Young Network Engineer ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Word wrap - was Re: MCNS (v2.0) questions

2000-08-08 Thread Karen . Young
Also, some mail programs will wrap the line by inserting an EOL. When you copy the URL to the browser you either lose the end of the line (anything after the EOL doesn't get copied to the clipboard for some reason) or you end up with a control character in the URL - thereby messing up your browse

RE: a bit OT.. maybe :^)

2000-08-09 Thread Karen . Young
Or perhaps a Sysco proprietary routing protocol such as plastic wrap. :-) Karen E Young Network Engineer ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Chuck

Re: MAC address

2000-08-10 Thread Karen . Young
Question 1, 2, & 4: Explanation of address resolution regarding MAC addresses. http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/introint.htm#xtocid193923 Question 3: Router packet handling http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/routing.htm#xtocid249344 Karen E Young Ne

RE: Preventing password recovery

2000-08-10 Thread Karen . Young
Michael, You can lock up just that one box. I did a very quick search and came up with this one. I'm sure that there are more out there. You can top it off with a nice label that says "Property of . Tampering will be considered cause for prosecution." http://www.hubbell-premise.com/SearchResult

Re: 802.1Q support on a PCI Ethernet Card?

2000-08-17 Thread Karen . Young
Ask and ye shall receive http://www.3com.com/products/nics/3c980cfb.html Karen E Young Network Engineer ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] ARTO.O

Re:

2000-08-17 Thread Karen . Young
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/474/ Karen E Young Network Engineer ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] "David

Re: Is this correct in cisco switch?

2000-08-22 Thread Karen . Young
Can't answer that one for sure, but here's my take on it... It's true only in that Cisco has designed the various switch lines to fulfill certain roles in the overall network infrastructure. The Catalyst 4000, 5000, and 6000 series (set based) are what Cisco suggests for the distribution layer (

Re: About CCNA WAN Switching

2000-08-28 Thread Karen . Young
The AXIS produxt was renamed to the MGX 8220. http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/74/121.html Karen E Young NEtwork Engineer ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: CCIE WRITTEN ---- Please provide your feedback.

2000-08-30 Thread Karen . Young
Nadeem, You complain that the Cisco blueprint "covers everything and that is too much". I have one question regarding this... Just why do you think that CCIEs are so highly regarded? This is not to say that you aren't intelligent or knowledgeable. It sounds more like you are frustrated more th

RE: Help on Frame-relay Traffic-shaping command

2000-08-30 Thread Karen . Young
Actually, The "frame-relay traffic-rate" command DOES exist. It is used as a simpler alternative to using the three commands for setting up traffic shaping on Frame Relay ("frame-relay cir out", "frame-relay be out", and "frame-relay bc out"). http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/softw

Re: VTP Domain Name

2000-08-31 Thread Karen . Young
The 2924XL uses the IOS based software. How you reset it depends on whether its a client or a VTP server. If its a server, you go into VLAN configuration mode ("vlan database" command), set the VTP domain ("vtp domain "), and then set it as the server ("vtp server"). If you've configured a doma

Re: Negating Commands on Catalyst Switches

2000-08-31 Thread Karen . Young
Brandon, With most of them you use the "clear" command. Ex. "set vtp pruneligible " to set the configuration for puning eligibility and "clear vtp pruneligible" to remove it. However, with some of the configuration you just use the regular "set" command to give it a null value. This retur

Re: NORTEL TIPS

2000-09-01 Thread Karen . Young
Nortel Documentation Library (has links to tech bulletins & manuals at the top) http://www12.nortelnetworks.com/cgi-bin/cnss/library/liLibrary.jsp Bay Networks Guidse to Networking Terms (online) http://www25.nortelnetworks.com/library/tpubs/terms/ Nortel Certification Framework http://www.nor

Re: CIPT anyone ?

2000-09-05 Thread Karen . Young
That URL should be http://www.cisco.com/networkers/nw00/pres/pdf2000.htm instead. You might also want to check these out. http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/779/smbiz/netsolutions/find/wan/iptele.html http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/voice/ip_tele/ http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/

Re: what is dark fiber?

2000-09-05 Thread Karen . Young
Think for a minute. How does fiber transmit data? Using light. So when the provider is selling "dark fiber" it means that it's fiber without the light source to transmit the data. You provide your own. Generally get it at a discount but in practice it ends up costing about the same since the cost

Re: catOS image differences...

2000-09-06 Thread Karen . Young
The CSX image is strictly for the Cat 6000 series from when it was newly released. It was just to identify the fact that it had seperate features that the regular CatOS didn't have yet. You can check the release notes for the assorted CatOS version to identify the particulars. The two versions sh

Re: HDLC, SDLC...

2000-09-06 Thread Karen . Young
These are all Layer 2 protocols. This site has some very good explanations of the differences. http://www.sangoma.com/tutorial.htm LLC2 = IEEE 802.2 Logical Link Control Type 2. Used by SNA and NetBIOS on a LAN. Frame Format: http://www.protocols.com/pbook/lan.htm#LLC LAPD = Access p

Re: Nobody able to help me ?

2000-09-06 Thread Karen . Young
ifTable = 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2 Contains a number of OIDs you want to look at) ifNumber = 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1 The number of interfaces/ports on the device - careful with this one, it includes the virtual interfaces as well as the physical ones Under ifTable (part of the standard RFC 1213 MIB - you probab

Re: Latest SW version for CAT5K

2000-09-06 Thread Karen . Young
The "recommended" version of the software should be whatever meets you needs best. You have to take into account memory requirements, what you want it to do, bugs, and security holes. Its not as easy as saying "this is what you need" without bothering to check what your needs are. The one size fi

Re: netbios, whats it good for?

2000-09-06 Thread Karen . Young
This has a good explanation of what NetBIOS is good for (and I use the term loosly): http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/idg4/nd2004.htm#xtocid263537 but here is the specific sentance that tells it all... "NetBIOS stations issue broadcasts for several reasons: to verify at startup

Re: CIT 4.0 objectives

2000-07-14 Thread Karen . Young
If nobody has the CIT 4.0 objectives, the CIT 3.0 ones are still available at http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/10/wwtraining/certprog/testing/pdf/cit3.0.pdf Karen E Young Network Engineer ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk: 425-369-5369 Fax: 425-391-1774 Pager: 206-994-4514

Re: Zero CIR

2000-09-07 Thread Karen . Young
However, with a zero CIR you also have to keep in mind that alot of carriers calculate the subscription load on their switch by the aggregate CIR of all of the customers on the switch. If they have alot of customers with a zero CIR on a given switch, then it is more likely to become over-subscrib

Re: Study Materials for CCNP 2.0 Track?

2000-09-07 Thread Karen . Young
Try layer 1. Hubs and repeateras are purely physical. They don't process data in any way, shape, or form. All they do is move bits from one port to another. They are focused on BITS, not packets, segments, or frames. Check your OSI layer functions. Bridges and switches are layer 2 Routers and ML

Re: On Demand Routing (ODR) - Anyone using this routing protocol?

2000-09-08 Thread Karen . Young
Technically, its not a routing protocol, its an enhancement to CDP. Here:s a whiute paper on designing networks using ODR that might help you out. http://www.ieng.com/warp/public/105/39.html Karen E Young Network Engineer ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ATM deaming/line encoding problem

2000-09-08 Thread Karen . Young
Hans, I haven't had the chance to work with ATM but according to the Link 0 Framer info you're getting LOF on the receive (loss of frame delineation). Combine that with the number of uncorrectable errors on your receive and I'd say that the problem isn't necessarily your router. You might want t

RE: 802.1Q or ISL

2000-09-08 Thread Karen . Young
Good question since the info I have shows the value to be 08-00 and is only 1 byte Maybe we should ask Howard to verify since he evidently has the IEEE Standards doc. Karen E Young Network Engineer ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: 802.1Q or ISL

2000-09-08 Thread Karen . Young
You're right. I wasn't paying attention. Took a closer look at the format on my source and saw it was mislabeled. Here goes with the corrected info: 2 octet TPID with a value of 08-00. 2 octet TCI (Tag Control Information) consiting of 3 bits = user priority 1 bit = CFI (Canonical For

Re: Management vlan and the IP address

2000-09-11 Thread Karen . Young
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/28201900/1928v8x/eecli8x/clipart1.htm#14309 the "ip mgmt-vlan " command Karen E Young Network Engineer ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vlan routing with 802.1q

2000-07-05 Thread Karen . Young
802.1q works just fine with FastEther. Just keep in mind that some software versions or supervisor engines (switches) can support EITHER ISL or dot1q but not both. The Catalyst 4003's are a good example (dot1q only). Karen E Young Network Engineer ELF Technologies, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk: 4

Re: IP addressing Subnetting [7:24712]

2001-10-31 Thread Karen Young
Currently you can't use /31 networks. However, there is an RFC that proposes changes that would allow their use on point-to-point links only. RFC 3021 Using 31-Bit Prefixes on IPv4 Point-to-Point Links. A. Retana, R. White, V. Fuller, D. McPherson. December 2000. (Format: TXT=19771 bytes) (Sta

IP Multicast Training materials [7:24814]

2001-10-31 Thread Karen Young
Just ran across this and figured that I would pass it on. Cisco IP Multicast Groups External Homepage ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/ipmulticast.html This is not the actual Cisco Technology page on IP Multicast, it seems to be a page meant for the development teams as an external gateway for IETF wor

Re: Cisco Mibs and HP OV ?? [7:24811]

2001-10-31 Thread Karen Young
This may help you out... http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/netmgmt/cmtk/mibs.shtml It gives you links to listings of which MIBs are supported on a device sorted by the IOS version that they are supported under. HTH, Karen >> Original Message Hi, > I want to integ

Re: Audio Learning [7:24810]

2001-10-31 Thread Karen Young
Mark, I don't know about audio materials for certification stuff, but there's a site that'll let you order the audio presentations from Networkers 1999, 2000, and 2001. http://recording.safeshopper.com/ HTH, Karen >> Original Message Last week someone gave a link to