Re: OSPF [7:13105]

2001-07-20 Thread Lance Simon
OSPF - An anatomy of an Internet Routing Protocol by John Moy is the gospel of OSPF. Also, Tom Thomas has a design book by Cisco Press. - Original Message - From: mike rose To: Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:07 AM Subject: OSPF [7:13105] Hello all Is there a book out there

Re: Multiple OSPF areas on the same router [7:13108]

2001-07-20 Thread Lance Simon
Core routers do this all the time. They end up being ABRs and you need to make sure that the router has a lot of beef to it to be able to efficiently handle all of the LSDBs thrown at it from each area. - Original Message - From: Lupi, Guy To: Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:29 AM

Re: Alcatel OmniPCX [7:2695]

2001-04-30 Thread Lance Simon
Basically the OmniPCX is a high end telephony PBX that works over any type of network, i.e., GIG Eth, ATM, or over WAN connections, ISDN, VPN, ATM, Frame Relay etc..Good QoS, works great in conjuntion with the OmniCore layer 3 switch. We use them at work with the 5200 OmniCore. Apparently,

Re: Clever NICs - was: VLAN's and Routers [7:2534]

2001-04-30 Thread Lance Simon
I have an Intel PRO/100 S Dual Port Server Adapter which works good. I had to do some tweaking to get it to work with my non-cisco equipment because it is designed around the Cisco fast ether-channel technology instead of strict 802.1q standards, but we got that taken care of. -Original

Re: Very interesting RIP issue

2000-06-05 Thread Lance Simon
must be doing something very wierd. A UDP header consists of Source Port, Dest Port, Length and the checksum... TTL's are usually L3 and a max TTL 2 indicates somethings really screwed up. Nimesh. On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Lance Simon wrote: Actually, if the switch is routing, it will decrement

Re: Very interesting RIP issue

2000-06-05 Thread Lance Simon
.. Nimesh. On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Lance Simon wrote: Yes, I was wrong about it not being in the IP header. The ttl is in the ip header. RIP updates are transported over UDP port 520. Now, what do you think the ttl for a RIP update should be, Nimesh? And why? Nimesh Vakharia wrote