Re: router CPU utilization on access lists? [7:75002]

2003-09-09 Thread Marty Adkins
Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: Yes, that's true indeed that access lists don't cause process switching anymore, so wouldn't show up in IP Input. Two exceptions that I failed to mention are logging and the side effect of a deny. By default, a deny causes the generation of an ICMP admin.

Re: router CPU utilization on access lists? [7:75002]

2003-09-08 Thread Marty Adkins
Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: Maybe a dumb question, but I know you guys can help me. :-) How would I know if a router is using excessive CPU on IP access lists? What am I looking for when I do a show processes cpu? You can't determine the portion due to ACL processing from any single

Re: DTP and VTP Domain [7:64892]

2003-03-10 Thread Marty Adkins
Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: DTP uses protocol type 2004 too, just like DISL. I guess it's just an update to DISL for use with 802.1Q rather than ISL? Yes. Step 1: negotiate whether to trunk. Step 2: if the result is yes, then negotiate which flavor. If both are indifferent, favor ISL.

Re: EIGRP Adjacenies are Unidirectional. Why? [7:59186]

2002-12-13 Thread Marty Adkins
. Why was EIGRP designed this way? I don't know why, but I do know Cisco is revisiting that decision. At Networkers 2002 Alvaro described an enhancement on the drawing board called reliable three-way handshake. Backward compatible. See session RST-440. Marty Adkins Chesapeake NetCraftsmen, LLC

Re: Apparent packet loss... [7:57922]

2002-11-23 Thread Marty Adkins
Keith Woodworth wrote: |- Anyway to acutally tell for certain if the router is dropping packets? |- |-show buffers |-show queueing |-show queue interface etc. Showing misses/failures on all buffers but these have the most: Small buffers, 104 bytes (total 50, permanent 50, peak 201 @

Re: Apparent packet loss... [7:57922]

2002-11-23 Thread Marty Adkins
Keith Woodworth wrote: we use ip route-cache policy on each interface that is has policy routing enabled. I'm trying to find out how route-cache correlatets to CEF. Does ip route-cache policy need to be turned off when CEF is enabled? How is it it different than CEF? The two seem to be

Re: full duplex or half duplex, how can you tell [7:57431]

2002-11-18 Thread Marty Adkins
Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: sam sneed wrote: this is about the comment You'd get a link but lots of collisions, eh? The half-duplex side would receive while it was sending, because the full-duplex side would send whenever it wanted. In other words, the 2500 side would report

Re: odd IOS arp cache abnormality? [7:56884]

2002-11-08 Thread Marty Adkins
Cable Guy wrote: I am trying to clear arp-cache in IOS 12.1 and get unexpected results. Below you see debug arp turned on, the current arp cache, then the clear command. Immediately, the router sends out arp requests for the entries that were in the cache. Why does the router immediately

Re: NTP and Daylight Saving [7:57076]

2002-11-08 Thread Marty Adkins
Paulo Roque wrote: It4s exactly that kind of task I want to avoid ! Paulo Georgescu, Aurelian escreveu na mensagem news:200211072134.VAA21948;groupstudy.com... You have to set up daylight saving and time zone on each client, so they will know how to interpret the UTC. The NTP time

Re: odd IOS arp cache abnormality? [7:56884]

2002-11-08 Thread Marty Adkins
Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: The router is testing for a duplicate IP address. Hopes it doesn't get a reply. What it sends already is a reply, as the debug in the original message stated. Here's an example: Oops, I didn't read the debug carefully enough. Thanks for the correction!

Re: why loopback plug detected as loopback in first place? [7:57155]

2002-11-08 Thread Marty Adkins
Cable Guy wrote: When you put a hardware loopback plug on a serial to test it, why does the router see it as a loopback? With the show int serial command, you will see -serial up, line protocol up (loopback mode)- Of course it needs to see it as loopback otherwise the router wouldn't

Re: The Origin of Echos and Echo Replies [7:53148]

2002-09-11 Thread Marty Adkins
Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: s vermill wrote: Anyone smart on interworkings of Cisco routers care to clarify something for me? I was in a discussion with someone in another forum. It was being discussed how pings from a local ethernet interface to a local serial interface on the

Re: dhcp client cisco 2500 [7:52922]

2002-09-11 Thread Marty Adkins
Jason Yates wrote: How would I setup my ethernet interface, on my cisco 2500 running IOS 12.06, to grab it's ip info from a dhcp server, or is this impossible? You want: interface e0 ip address dhcp Works for me! - Marty Message Posted at:

Re: The Origin of Echos and Echo Replies [7:53148]

2002-09-11 Thread Marty Adkins
Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: Interesting test. I think I understand it. ;-) Where are the debugs being run, by the way? The local router that is pinging or the router at the other end? It looks like they are on the local router doing the pings? Try running them on the other router. Be

Re: Catalyst 2950 CRC Errors [7:51419]

2002-08-16 Thread Marty Adkins
John Neiberger wrote: We've had nothing but bad luck with the 3C905C NICs. We've purchased a *bunch* of low-end Dell PCs that have that NIC and they tend to get the blue screen of death and then reboot if they're connected to Cisco switches, especially when STP is turned on. Very odd

CCO: Token Ring Bridging and RIF Decoding [7:51295]

2002-08-13 Thread Marty Adkins
One more treatment of an old topic, but rather well done. FWIW, - Marty Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=51295t=51295 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report

Re: CCO: Token Ring Bridging and RIF Decoding [7:51295]

2002-08-13 Thread Marty Adkins
...padding...padding...padding...padding...padding...padding...padding... padding...padding...padding...padding...padding...padding...padding...padding... Marty Adkins wrote: One more treatment of an old topic, but rather well done. FWIW, - Marty http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/100

Re: show process cpu and the interrupt value [7:49954]

2002-07-29 Thread Marty Adkins
to add to the reading list on this topic: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/63/highcpu.html Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chesapeake NetCraftsmen, LLC o:410.757.3050, p:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1290 Bay Dale Drive, Suite 312 http://www.netcraftsmen.NET Arnold, MD

Re: blocking spam with cisco routers [7:48971]

2002-07-17 Thread Marty Adkins
outbound mail without having done a POP fetch in the last several minutes, an error message tells you that you must do that first. And BTW, none of these reduce spam, only the relaying of it! Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chesapeake NetCraftsmen, LLC o

Re: STP and 7 hops [7:44408]

2002-05-18 Thread Marty Adkins
Here's a pretty good explanation of the STP timers, diameter, etc. Understanding and Tuning Spanning-Tree Protocol Timers http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/473/122.html Much easier to follow than the IEEE standard. Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chesapeake

Re: NAT dilemma [7:42762]

2002-04-28 Thread Marty Adkins
Michael L. Williams wrote: Paul Lalonde wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... but routing out via an Ethernet interface will likely just *drop* the packet onto that broadcast domain (subnet) without pointing it to a specific next hop. This raises an

Re: ACL - Let's put some numbers on... [7:41738]

2002-04-23 Thread Marty Adkins
Anthony Pace wrote: I thought on some platforms there was a way to cache the ACLs and or policy route-maps so they could be fast/CEF/mls switched. Like the logic got copiled and pushed into silicon (or something like that). Is there any vlaidity to that? Anthony Pace Actually on ALL

Re: CCIE Written: Ethernet 802.3 Frames [7:21945]

2001-10-04 Thread Marty Adkins
Leigh Anne Chisholm wrote: 1. See Priscilla's response first. 2. Your query wondering about what protocols other than Novell that can use the 802.3 frame makes me wonder if you have misunderstood encapsulation. Novell's encapsulations were developed prior to the IEEE finalizing their

Re: delay and delay [7:20926]

2001-09-25 Thread Marty Adkins
ms and a WAN link is assumed to take 20 ms (your geography may vary :-) Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor Technologies Phone: 240-568-6526 133 National Business Pkwy WWW: http://www.mentortech.com Annapolis Junction, MD 20701Cisco CCIE

Re: Ports and Sockets [7:19701]

2001-09-12 Thread Marty Adkins
Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: Socket has another meaning in the Unix world which I have never quite understood. Perhaps someone else can explain that. Socket = logical connection = tuple of (remote IP, source port, dest port). The source IP is implicit. :-) - Marty Message Posted at:

Re: does vtp can span the router [7:18545]

2001-09-05 Thread Marty Adkins
Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: VTP advertisements are sent to a data-link-layer multicast 01-00-0C-CC-CC-CC. The SNAP type is 2003 which distinguishes the frame from other Cisco frames that use that multicast (CDP and DISL, for example). As I said before, the router would have to be sitting

Re: 2900XL Console Access [7:14689]

2001-08-08 Thread Marty Adkins
routers, the XL switch console port uses hardware flow control. If a lead is floating (not connected), the switch sees that as a don't transmit condition. This causes it to just buffer up all the output. What you type is acted upon, but you see no display. Marty Adkins Email

Re: port block unicast and multicast [7:12052]

2001-07-11 Thread Marty Adkins
Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: Has anyone seen this and is there a workaround? On a Catalyst 1900 switch enterprise edition, the software has decided that one of my ports should not flood unknown unicast or multicast. This wouldn't be a problem except that the port is also my monitor port

Re: ping replies [7:10910] longish! [7:10910]

2001-07-05 Thread Marty Adkins
a process to run. Thanks to both of you for digging and actually trying these on real gear -- it helps everyone learn much more thoroughly. Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor Technologies Phone: 240-568-6526 133 National Business Pkwy WWW

Re: debug !!! [7:10598]

2001-07-04 Thread Marty Adkins
Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: To look at ip traffic he should use debug ip packet detail. (Be careful on a busy production router. This displays a lot of info, and when you ask a router to use CPU cycles to display output on the console instead of using those cycles to route packets, you're

Re: Router Discovery Protocol [7:8470]

2001-06-14 Thread Marty Adkins
Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: When a workstation starts up, it can multicast an ICMP router solicitation packet to ask for immediate advertisements, rather than wait for the next periodic advertisement to arrive. Although most routers support RDP, few workstation IP implementations support

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

2001-06-14 Thread Marty Adkins
Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: OSI, in its _basic_ 7 layer form, is a useful tool for conceptualizing and educating. That's it. Certain concepts, like the generic relationship between layers, protocol encapsulation, etc., are generally useful. But I assure you, from personal experience in

Re: Route Updates and Fast Switching Cache [7:8110]

2001-06-12 Thread Marty Adkins
is not fast-switched, nor process-switched -- it's not switched at all! If a ping is sourced from the router with two equal paths, the pings will alternate paths on a per-packet basis. Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor Technologies Phone: 240-568-6526

Re: Rule 5-4-3 [7:7578]

2001-06-11 Thread Marty Adkins
be bridged) to time out and retransmit. If the max retry count was exceeded, the session was dropped. Someplace in my paper archives I believe I have the slides from a DECUS presentation that broke out the timing budget. Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor Technologies

Re: lab switch 2900XL or 5k? [7:7926]

2001-06-11 Thread Marty Adkins
Daniel Cotts wrote: The 3500's use the router like IOS. The 2900 series that use the CatOS or set commands are the 2901 and the following: http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/c29xx/c2926/01intro.htm Watch the wrap. The 2901 is no longer made. It is a two slot fixed

Re: Question on the meaning of tunneling [7:6136]

2001-05-28 Thread Marty Adkins
Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: In the most general sense, a tunnel is a means of taking a protocol data unit payload of OSI layer N of protocol family P1: (N,P1)-PDU, and transmitting it with a delivery header at layer M of protocol family P2. What is actually transmitted is, minimally, a

Re: OT Looking for tech presentation tips [7:5111]

2001-05-23 Thread Marty Adkins
environment. You will also learn how to handle questions. Besides Toastmasters, I can heartily recommend Friesen, Kay Associates' three-day Instructional Techniques workshop. I've sent a number of new instructors to it who found it very helpful. http://www.fka.com/ Marty Adkins

Re: GigE LX and SX interoperability [7:4545]

2001-05-15 Thread Marty Adkins
reference, here's another good explanation (watch wrap): http://www.corningcablesystems.com/web/privnet/privnet.nsf/%28vwAllKeys%29%7CvwAllKeys/D1574C2BD2F2388B8525698A004DD6C5?OpenDocument Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor Technologies Phone: 240-568

Re: Spanning Tree Protocol [7:2564]

2001-05-02 Thread Marty Adkins
at it, enable bpdu-guard so if someone does back-door and create a loop, the portfast-enabled port will be disabled. I'd love to see if that makes the Macs happy. Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor Technologies Phone: 240-568-6526 133 National

Re: traceroute !A * !A meaning [7:915]

2001-04-17 Thread Marty Adkins
(fast-switching, etc.) Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor Technologies Phone: 240-568-6526 133 National Business Pkwy WWW: http://www.mentortech.com Annapolis Junction, MD 20701Cisco CCIE #1289 Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy

Re: Catalyst traceroute problem [7:965]

2001-04-17 Thread Marty Adkins
at that port, it should reply with an ICMP port unreachable. It's possible that some device is filtering the UDP packets in the forward direction, or the ICMP unreachables in the reverse direction, while happily passing ICMP echo/echo-reply. Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Ethernet vs. Fast Ethernet [7:515]

2001-04-15 Thread Marty Adkins
index.html If you're into hardware chipsets, then follow the links at: http://www.scyld.com/expert/100mbps.html And as a great place to start on anything about Ethernet, Charles Spurgeon's site at U. Texas is still great: http://wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/ethernet/ Marty Adkins

Re: Check this one out ..... [7:537]

2001-04-13 Thread Marty Adkins
Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: It makes it easy to have Internet connectivity in the kitchen or bathroom. Gives a whole new meaning to PPP! ;-) My, you are in rare form tonight! Keep in comin' :- - Marty Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=558t=537

Re: AppleTalk on Support exam [7:269]

2001-04-11 Thread Marty Adkins
is still on the exam -- I think it's worthwhile for people to contrast the various methods of service location used over the years, vis a vis Novell and Microsoft. Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor Technologies Phone: 240-568-6526 133 National Business

Re: CCIE Lab Report - unsuccesful

2001-04-08 Thread Marty Adkins
er to http://www.tara.ca/ourlabs/ccie.html and peak at Halifax. They're redesigned their site -- they used to have a Quicktime 360 degree "movie" of the lab. Back when I was still teaching CCIE prep classes I used to show it to people. It helped take the edge off of the unkn

Re: Ethernet address question

2001-03-25 Thread Marty Adkins
Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: At 10:09 PM 3/23/01, you wrote: Are you sure that the LAA bit applies to Ethernet? I've never seen that defined as such in any doc. Only for Token Ring. - Marty It's in IEEE 802.3. I just checked. And I bet you have seen it used! How about in DECnet

Re: loopback the WIC card, how is it done?

2001-03-19 Thread Marty Adkins
erent from the default HDLC keepalive message that is exchanged between the two routers. Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor Technologies Phone: 240-568-6526 133 National Business Pkwy WWW: http://www.mentortech.com Annapolis Junction, MD 20701

Re: 2500 series e0 fullduplex?

2001-02-28 Thread Marty Adkins
dates fast Ethernet. AFAIK, there are no Cisco routers with 10Mb Ethernets that support full-duplex. Prior to the introduction of fast Ethernet in the industry, there were a few NIC vendors that added full-duplex capability to 10Mb cards. But it never really caught on; plus it was superceded by 10/100

Re: juniper and cisco

2001-02-28 Thread Marty Adkins
"Howard C. Berkowitz" wrote: The thing is, Juniper's technology is based upon a central bus architecture shared memory, not shared bus. There is a difference. I don't have the URL handy, but Cisco has a paper out by the Stanford University professor who architected the GSR. It

Re: DHCP- Advise / Suggestions Apprciated

2001-02-23 Thread Marty Adkins
and server code deals very gracefully with multiple responses (see the RFC). Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor Technologies Phone: 240-568-6526 133 National Business Pkwy WWW: http://www.mentortech.com Annapolis Junction, MD 20701Cisco

Re: HDLC

2001-02-21 Thread Marty Adkins
oing back the packet with the Cisco's magic number. But that was a while back. So thanks, Howard, for responding! - Marty At 10:16 PM 2/19/2001 -0500, Marty Adkins wrote: "Howard C. Berkowitz" wrote: HDLC really doesn't offer any advantages over PPP, so it really reflects someone

Re: HDLC

2001-02-19 Thread Marty Adkins
etary HDLC keepalive will report a loop condition on the layer 1. And it will also, by default, treat a looped interface as "line protocol up", which is great for testing, using just the router. Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor Technologies

Re: T1 Link

2001-02-10 Thread Marty Adkins
Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: Yup, SLARP is pretty cool. It's one good reason to use HDLC. It makes configuration so easy. Also, the students will love saying SLARP. I'm helping out with the academy at our local high school, as I've mentioned before. Those students will love saying SLARP,

Re: A question

2001-01-05 Thread Marty Adkins
Also see RFC 2563. Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor Technologies Phone: 410-280-8840 x3006 275 West Street, Plaza 70WWW: http://www.mentortech.com Annapolis, MD 21401 Cisco CCIE #1289 _ FAQ, list archives

Re: Router ID in OSPF

2000-12-22 Thread Marty Adkins
g this one by its present router ID. The same principle applies to the DR election -- there is no coup option. Now if you were to shut down the interface with the existing router ID... Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor Technologies Phone: 410-280-8840 x3006

Re: Switching method help!!

2000-12-18 Thread Marty Adkins
in more detail (no CCO account required): How to Choose the Best Router Switching Path for Your Network http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/105/20.html Performance Tuning Basics: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/63/tuning.html Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor

RE: Nagle's algorithm

2000-12-18 Thread Marty Adkins
Here's an old one I saved in my archives but you could probably search for it on nexial as well. The main situation it addresses is the use of a router as a commserver, with a dumb terminal attached or dialed up. Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor Technologies

Re: CID book

2000-12-18 Thread Marty Adkins
"Howard C. Berkowitz" wrote: Amen. One of the realities of publishing is that even if it were possible to have enough reviews to catch every error, the book would be far more expensive and would come out too late to be useful. Even if the book were "precise," how does the author deal with

Re: simulating delay on Cisco routers in test bench

2000-12-06 Thread Marty Adkins
You might experiment with traffic shaping. If you set it low enough you will decrease the routers effective use of the available bandwidth. Note this will NOT lower the delay. But it might approximate what you're looking for. Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor

Re: Frame Relay test tool (must be SW)

2000-11-25 Thread Marty Adkins
orite workstation. Read about it here: http://www.mentortech.com/product/network_mon/tnm31/ttcp.htm http://www.mentortech.com/product/network_mon/tnm32/ttcp.htm and download from: http://www.mentortech.com/learn/tools/tools.shtml Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor Techno

Re: Perplexing: DHCP fails from Ethernet segment to Token Ring segment

2000-11-25 Thread Marty Adkins
://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios121/121cgcr/ibm_r/brprt1/br1dtb.htm#xtocid274036 Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor Technologies Phone: 410-280-8840 x3006 275 West Street, Plaza 70WWW: http://www.mentortech.com Annapolis, MD

Re: Master Clock Source

2000-11-25 Thread Marty Adkins
, only 7000 routers have that $2 Dallas watch chip included. Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor Technologies Phone: 410-280-8840 x3006 275 West Street, Plaza 70WWW: http://www.mentortech.com Annapolis, MD 21401 Cisco CCIE #1289 ""Ross

Re: Redistribution

2000-11-22 Thread Marty Adkins
I agree with Chuck. However, the default coefficient (K) values cause the effects of load to be ignored. So it worked and noone noticed the minor error until you scrutinized the config. Cendant? I just taught a CIT class in NYC to two folks from there... Marty Adkins Email

Re: !H

2000-11-20 Thread Marty Adkins
06:47:58: ICMP: dst (10.0.0.1) host unreachable sent to 192.1.63.198 06:47:59: ICMP: dst (10.0.0.1) host unreachable sent to 192.1.63.198 06:48:00: ICMP: dst (10.0.0.1) host unreachable sent to 192.1.63.198 06:48:01: ICMP: dst (10.0.0.1) host unreachable sent to 192.1.63.198 Marty Adkins

Re: IS-IS use?? [gets O-T]

2000-11-16 Thread Marty Adkins
phone... :-) Folks, if you've never typed in one of these obscenely long addresses, you'll not appreciate it. Exit nostalgic mode, Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor Technologies Phone: 410-280-8840 x3006 275 West Street, Plaza 70WWW: http://www.mentortech.c

Re: WFQ FR

2000-10-16 Thread Marty Adkins
can police differently, but for a starting point, shape the hub site output to equal the remote site's port rate. HTH, Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor Technologies Phone: 410-280-8840 x3006 275 West Street, Plaza 70WWW: http://www.mentortech.com Annapolis,

Re: Ethernet Trivia

2000-10-08 Thread Marty Adkins
have for months in Oregon and realized that folks may be missing the basic arithmetic involved, though they understand the more complicated aspects. That's weird! Ahh, in a few months, we'll all be jealous of the great snow conditions. Then we can calculate the length of a bit on the ca