Re: Windows 2000 sniffer

2001-02-12 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
NAI 4.5 works on Windows 2000 if you have a NIC they support. I can confirm that it works with Xircom RealPort cards (note: it did NOT work pre-service release) "Christopher Supino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@groupstudy.com on 02/12/2001 01:11:49 PM Please respond to "Christopher Supino" <[EMAIL P

Re: The Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist (CIS)JN0-301

2001-02-17 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
I can discern 2 indirect relationships: 1. For people who are bored after achieving CCIE status in 2 or more of the possible tracks AND are desparately seeking to differentiate themselves from all the other CCIEs out there (since it's presumably a little less exclusive each time a new # is doled

Re: dumb Linux terminal-router question

2001-03-02 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
I'd reccomend the free upgrade to the native hyperterminal client it addresses known bugs with the nt version (based on past experience, i now assume that problems plaguing NT also plague Windows 2000 unless otherwise notified) and i've found it to be generally more robust (please note that that

Re: Off Topic: Any interest in new Sniffer Certification?

2001-03-06 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
A more effective way to express displeasure (especially if you feel some form of non-passive censure is warranted) might be to reply with the following: "Yes I do have both a comment and interest. My comment is that your shameless promotion using what appears to be an NAI e-mail address spurs m

Re: IP routing tables

2000-11-26 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
it sounds like you'd be interested in all the candidate routes a given routing protocol would generate (whether periodically or as a reaction to external influences). i'm still new at this, but it seems like the closest you would come (without getting deeply lost within their branch of the share

Re: anyone has had any contacts with cisco R&D people?

2000-12-02 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
agnostic might be too strong a term to lavish upon a company that preaches "open standards" at prospective customers (such as isl, pim, cgmp, igrp, eigrp,their layer 2 hdlc & the rest-meaning, anything they developed in isolation and imposed, or are waiting to impose, upon the rest of the ip-vulne

Re: anyone has had any contacts with cisco R&D people?

2000-12-03 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
Disclosure: i work with equipment manufactured by both nortel & cisco (or companies they assimilated) and make every effort to be equally unfair to both. thanks for the clarification about PIM, i was unaware of those circumstances. in the original list i forgot hsrp, which-i'm told-falls under th

Re: anyone has had any contacts with cisco R&D people?

2000-12-03 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
i suppose that an underlying assumption of mine was that microsoft's market is non-competitive AND cisco has a chance of breaking into the carrier market BECAUSE both companies are leaders in terms of directional flexibility. do you see it differently? as for hsrp, even if it is functionally id

Re: RFC Reading List

2000-12-07 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
one possible suggestion is to leverage a search engine such as rfc-editor.org's. it allows you to search by topic and the results are typically returned along with the obsolence hierarchy information you might want to think about reading the original ospf (version 2: i believe the start number

Re: Or Nortel? Re: Easy ML? Re:MCSE OR CCNA

2000-12-26 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
to the extent that it counts, i'd have to vote that mastering implementations of similar technologies by different vendors and opportunities to explore interoperability rarely hurt one's opportunities to begin grasping the miracle by which bit patterns emanating from one digital computing device

Re: Or Nortel? Re: Easy ML? Re:MCSE OR CCNA

2000-12-26 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
thanks for the insight. unfortunately, i'm in an environment where all kinds of anguish, fear. uncertainty and doubt (not to mention resistance, fits and threats) were raised when Y2K bullies "forced" an upgrade to RS 11.03/9 last year, so i'm pretty far from offering a perspective on bcc. i'm

Re: Difference between Directed Boradcast and Mulitcast

2000-12-27 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
an aspect i did not notice to be covered in the response found below is the following: it appears to me that multicast technology incorporates control of traffic distribution into the addressing scheme: all multicast-rfc-compliant-devices will forward traffic to multiple hosts if the destination

Re: can SPAN port transmit?

2000-12-29 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
Cisco employees have confirmed for me that devices connected to span ports are unable to act as normal hosts by design. Priscilla Oppenheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@groupstudy.com on 12/29/2000 03:27:52 PM Please respond to Priscilla Oppenheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: can SPAN port transmit?

2000-12-29 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
My admittedly limited experience is as follows: on the first day after a cutover to a set of 6500s and 6000s, I needed to track down some server misconfigurations, so I asked that a server VLAN be spanned to the port my laptop was using. Upon execution of those commands, all normal functions of

Re: can SPAN port transmit?

2000-12-29 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
Thinking about it further, there was probably nothing preventing my machine from transmitting, but I probably was not connected to the network I was configured for once the port was spanned. -- Forwarded by Kevin Cullimore/FIRNY/NorthAmerica/MCKINSEY on 12/29/2000 09:42 PM

RE: Hyperterminal

2000-12-30 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
If you're trapped within a microsoft platform, the minimium enhancement you should consider is the free upgrade from http://www.hilgraeve.com, although i'm more than willing to allow that other alternatives might in fact be far superior. "Gary Joyce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@groupstudy.com on 12/3

RE: NetBios forwarding (Addendum)

2000-12-31 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
A company might intentionally go out of their way for such late 1980's state of the art engineering in order to acheive greater integration with operating systems build around products such as LAN manager (I'm told that much of the archaic stuff in NT is for the sake of backwards compability with

RE: Electrical and General knowledge

2001-01-04 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
Within the confines of my (admittedly limited) understanding of the original author's point, the username/password pairs referred to are the ones used in processes such as CHAP authentication, and therefore do not pertain to end-user access to either intermediate or end systems (thereby somewhat o

RE: fore

2001-01-05 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
I'm not sure that "new" effectively characterizes their enterprise; perhaps it's more applicable to their invasion of the for-profit data-communications turf. http://www.marconi.com/html/about/ourhistory.htm "Shaw, Winston Mr 5 SIG CMD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@groupstudy.com on 01/05/2001 04:13

RE: A question regarding private addressing

2001-01-06 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
It's been my experience that when a M$ ip stack assumes this address and mask, that it is NOT appearing on their network, and can't even talk to same-subnet hosts in most cases. As far as benefit is concerned, I believe that it might allow you to determine if a dhcp attempt occurred or not.

Re: Why dont I see SNMP discussion on this board ??

2001-01-07 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
A clearer statement about the level of involvement that SNMP might have within postings on a (clearly) hypothetical bay/nortel newsgroup is that it would be a recurring topic, with a fairly high percentage of specific implementation questions. This has to do with the ineffably sluggish nature of t

Re: Scores on Boson's and Colts - BCMSN

2001-01-07 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
Based on my experience (similar to yours, except that i took all of the boson BCMSN tests dozens of times) and the postings since august, the boson tests appear to have something to do with reality, and some semblance of correlation with test results whereas the colt tests appear to serve primaril

RE: Useful things to do with trolls

2001-01-13 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
If you refer to swallows instead, they'll probably be able to recognize the reference slightly faster. "Chuck Larrieu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@groupstudy.com on 01/13/2001 05:15:13 AM Please respond to "Chuck Larrieu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc

Re: Error Message

2001-01-17 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
In my vastly limited experience, it only works perfectly when a successfull outcome would introduce a routing or layer 2 Loop, or a source of hacking traffic, or allow a badly misconfigured box to interact with every mission-critical server in the environment. Usually, it merely causes performance

OT: Re: Beautiful Day, I passed CCIE written test today

2001-01-19 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
You wrote: I am now planning on a quick pit stop to get Nortell NNCSS certification in routing(Any advice out there?). If you take the accelar test, know the cli cold. The questions range from too simple to ambiguously worded (and therefore hard to answer "correctly"). The tests correlate very s

Re: Reccomended resources for BGP.

2001-01-21 Thread Kevin_Cullimore
Reviewing the list submissions for the past couple of months might give you the impression that this is a case where if you could only read one book on a topic, Halabi's would be it for BGP, regardless of the vendor sponsorship. I'm actually looking forward to the Doyle book, especially since he's