Re: LAN-to-WAN performance of cisco router?

2001-01-12 Thread Michael Fountain
Here is the numbers I've seen 261x = Fast - 12Kpps Processing - 1.5Kpps 262x = Fast - 23Kpps Process - 2Kpps 265x = Fast - 36Kpps Process - ??? probably around 3Kpps 3620 = Fast - 30Kpps Process -

Re: Coil pinnaccle header

2001-01-10 Thread Michael Fountain
I haven't seen that error yet, but I can telly you this. The COIL chip is sits on the 6500 Fast Ethernet Blades. Each Coil chip is responsible for up to 12 FE ports. They are mostly responsible for TX RX buffering, CRC checks, and queing The PINNACLE chip is found on the Gig E and Fast E

Re: Cat 6509

2000-12-06 Thread Michael Fountain
log into the switching os do - 'session 15' I have a Cat 6509 with the MSFC card in it. How do you get to the router mode of the switch? Thanks Wm. Spencer Plantier LAN Engineer (919) 474-1300 ext 0873 Office (919) 474-1056 Fax (919)696-8848 Cell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Catalyst Sup IOS to Catalyst OS

2000-12-05 Thread Michael Fountain
use - "session x" where x is the slot that your sup module is in. Slot 1 or 2 is the catalyst engine and slot 15 is the logical slot for the IOS software. Any body knows, how to change the Mode operation from Catalyst Supervisor IOS mode to Catalyst Softaware on Catalyst 6509?

Source Routing

2000-11-27 Thread Michael Fountain
Kind of a bizarre situation, but... We have a large, productional network that can't be messed with too much. Basic network could be looked at like this old inet router - core(5500rsm) - distro(4700) - access(1720s) / new inet router ---/ What we need to be able to to do

Re: console speed

2000-11-15 Thread Michael Fountain
They probably changed the config register. It is usually 0x2102. Here is a basic breakdown of the values - Bit No. Hex Meaning 00-03 - 000F Boot Field Stay at bootstrap prompt 0001Boot system image on EPROM 0002 - 000F

Re: ACL Deny Statement Wildcard

2000-11-15 Thread Michael Fountain
use this - access-list 103 deny ip 100.16.0.0 0.1.255.255 An easy way to look at it is that if your address ranges are consecutive then the .16 above is the starting address and .1 is the number of networks. So it blocks 16-17. Or look at bits - .16 = 0001 .17 = 00010001 in the mask 0

Re: Config register

2000-11-15 Thread Michael Fountain
For 0xf921 = 1001 0011 Bit 0 = boot from eprom Bit 5 = Used to set the speed to to 115200 Bit 8 = If a break is sent during boot, go into rommon mode Bit 11 = Used to set the speed to 115200 Bit 12 = Used to set the speed to 115200 Bit 13 = Boot default ROM if netboot fails Bit 14 = Used

Re: IP route cache

2000-11-10 Thread Michael Fountain
explaination can u tell me why? for what "ip mroute-cache" is used on serial interfaces - Original Message ----- From: Michael Fountain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 9:31 PM Subject: Re: IP route cache It determines how

Re: IP route cache

2000-11-08 Thread Michael Fountain
It determines how the router switches packets. If you use 'ip route-cache' then the router will be fast-switching the packets. The router keeps a cached memory full of recently used (which should often equal heavily used) routes destinations. When a packet comes in it can use that cache to

BGP - maximum-list

2000-11-07 Thread Michael Fountain
Has anyone used the maximum-prefix command on a cisco running BGP? It is supposed to keep a neighbor from going crazy and swamping your router with too many routes by limiting the number of routes that can be learned by the router. What would be a good number to set that at to allow a full

Re: Two DLCI numbers?

2000-11-03 Thread Michael Fountain
The DLCIs aren't always given by the provider. Depending on the provider and how much busniness you do with them, you can request specific DLCIs. The way we are doing it is multi-point frame connections from our central offic to our remote office. All PVCs connecting to a given T1 at our

Re: Average Load

2000-10-24 Thread Michael Fountain
You can change the sampling time using the 'load-interval [interval]' command. That will give you anything from 30 seconds to 10 minutes in 30 second increments. Is there a way to get the average utilization on an interface (serial) for more than the default 5 minute period shown by show

Re: Inverse Mask

2000-10-24 Thread Michael Fountain
Remember that with ACL masks, 1s = don't care. so, for a mask of 0.7.255.255 you have - .0111.. so, when used with 10.0.0.0 - You have to have 10 in the first octet (no ones) It doesn't care what is in the 3rd and 4th octet (all ones) The

BGP prefix-list help needed

2000-10-19 Thread Michael Fountain
Hi all. I need some help with a BGP prefix list. A consulting group has recommended the following prefix list in order to deny learning networks that should not be learnt from the internet. I don't entirely trust these guys to know what they are doing, so I would like to see what you all

Re: Back to Back CSU's in a Frame Relay experiment

2000-10-13 Thread Michael Fountain
In global config you need to turn on 'frame-relay switching' In interface config you need to set the lmi for DCE I think you also need to set the clock rate get it to work with HDLC before trying frame relay, to eliminate frame config probs. Joseph Ezerski [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/12 4:52 PM

Re: NTP support

2000-10-11 Thread Michael Fountain
I haven't seen anything that lists it for all feature sets for all IOS levels. You may want to consider SNTP if the IOS you have doesn't do NTP. Not as precise, but should be good to within a second or so. Hey, Is there any easy way to know which IOS feature sets support NTP

Re: HSRP

2000-10-07 Thread Michael Fountain
What version of IOS are you running? I think everything 12.0 and up supports it. I'm running it on a pair of 2621s with 12.0.7T See if you can enter 'standby' commands in the interface config. If so, it should do HSRP. Mike Hello, Is HSRP supported on 2600 series routers? In

Re: Traffic shapping,

2000-10-04 Thread Michael Fountain
How about this - interface s0 custom-queue-list 1 queue-list 1 queue 1 byte-count 1500 queue-list 1 queue 2 byte-count 6000 queue-list 1 protocol ip 1 tcp 80 queue-list 1 protocol ip 1 tcp 20 queue-list 1 protocol ip 1 tcp 21 queue-list 1 default 2 This should set up the serial interface

Re: Traffic Shaping

2000-10-04 Thread Michael Fountain
There is a 'load-interval' command that you can use to specify how often the router averages the load on an interface, in 30second intervals. Normally when you do a 'show interface' you get a five minute averate. With the load-interval command you can change that. It that it, or are you

Re: OT: Ethernet Trivia

2000-10-04 Thread Michael Fountain
Good question! I would guess that they would both arrive at the destination at the same time. The difference would be that the 100Mbps packet would finish transmitting first. The difference in speed can't be propagation delay since it goes over the same media. So the difference in speeds

Re: cisco internal CSU/DSU

2000-09-25 Thread Michael Fountain
You can do a "show service-module" i have a quick question .. how can i test these devices besides looking at the light on the module. Reason i some time can not be in front of the routers to check the lights . if the interface goes down. i can only assume its a csu/dsu. Are their commands

Re: Catalyst 4000 series

2000-09-22 Thread Michael Fountain
Go to Cisco's main page. Under Products Technology go to switches Under 4000 switches click on product literature On this page click on product literature also (silly, I know) Under data sheets click on 'Catalyst 4000 family' I could give you the direct link, but if you're going to be working

Re: output queue drops

2000-09-21 Thread Michael Fountain
Look at your load - 224/255 And that is a five-minute average. It looks like this link is pretty much maxed out. You are getting queue drops because you don't have enough wire speed for all of the traffic you are trying to push out. You can increase your queue depth to have it hold more

Re: Clocking Question

2000-09-19 Thread Michael Fountain
My understanding is that the CSU/DSU usually acts as both a DCE device and a DTE device. Although depending on how you configure it, it can be any combination. Usually you configure it to provide clocking to your equipment (router) so it is DCE to the router. And, you usually configure it

Re: Custom queue

2000-09-13 Thread Michael Fountain
The router will send the entire packet to finish off the byte count. If it has serviced 4400 bytes from queue 1 it can still transmit 100 bytes before moving to queue 2. If a 1500 bytes packet is next up in queue 1 it will transmit the entire packet before going to queue 2. This means that

Re: How does cisco router load-balancing?

2000-09-09 Thread Michael Fountain
Hmmm, I think it is more likely to depend on the switching method of the inbound interface then the outbound. Hi, group, I have question quite confused about. I learnt that per-packet load-balancing is used when process-switching is enabled and per-destination load-balancing is used when

Re: access list is not working! why?

2000-09-05 Thread Michael Fountain
You have to be carefull trying to block web sites by IP address. Some of them have more then one. www.radiowave.com resolves to 64.37.194.196 64.37.194.252 when I try to ping it by name. Doing a whois gave the folling DNS servers for them - 64.37.194.219 208.216.144.18

Re: Help on Frame-relay Traffic-shaping command

2000-08-30 Thread Michael Fountain
For frame-relay traffic-rate 32000 64000 16000 32000 is your average speed, it is what the router will transmit at if there is no congestion. The router assumes 1/2 average speed for CIR, so it will back off to 16000 if there is congestion. 64000 is what it can burst up to I am not

Re: load balancing multiple T1's

2000-08-28 Thread Michael Fountain
If they are equal cost, most any routing protocol can do this - RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, etc. One note on this though - If you are no process-switching, the load balancing is done on a per-destination basis. Meaning all traffic for one host is sent on first T1, all traffic for second host goes on

Re: no enable password set on 2504

2000-08-28 Thread Michael Fountain
You will get this message if you try to get into enable mode and you are not coming in on the console port (ie - you are on the aux port or telneted into it) To fix it, plug into the console port and set the enable or enable secret password. I want to configure a 2504 for my home

Re: load balancing on Rip

2000-08-28 Thread Michael Fountain
The router is probably fast-switching. Which means it is load balancing on a per-destination basis. All of your traceroutes are for the same destination, so they are going the same route. On the serial interface, if it is T1 or slower, do a "no ip route-cache" That will turn off

Re: Where does the default gateway belong?

2000-08-25 Thread Michael Fountain
It can be done :) We have a pair of Cat5K's with RSM blades in our core that do a large part of our routing. Greetings, We're having a discussion at work on the merits of moving the default gateway from our router to our switch. In a nutshell, we have multiple IP subnets and 2 routers

Re: How to separate Internet traffic?

2000-08-25 Thread Michael Fountain
At each site, make 2 HSRP groups, with routers A B involved in each group. Call group I your intranet group and group II your internet group Make router A the primary for group I and router B the secondary with the WAN link being monitored on both Make router B the primary for group II and

Re: Cisco 1005

2000-08-21 Thread Michael Fountain
I've got a 1005, and thought it was a good router for studying. But, I used it mostly for the dial-up test since it could have an asynch port. But, if you have a 2511 you might not have much use for the 1005. Hello ppl I need help in making a quick decision i am setting up a new lab

Re: about the queuing

2000-08-17 Thread Michael Fountain
It sets the number of packets the router will hold in queue before discarding new packets. Called congestive-discard. Default is 64 packets. Here is a like that explains it better, watch the wrap.

Re: RSVP WFQ

2000-08-17 Thread Michael Fountain
I'm not familiar with RSVP, can I can help with WFQ. WFQ is enabled by default on nearly all serial interfaces with speeds less then 2Mbps. (Exceptions are if you are using SDLC, X.25, LAPB, compressed PPP, and maybe a couple others). WFQ is able to sense the various 'conversations' between

RE: Preventing password recovery

2000-08-10 Thread Michael Fountain
I've had a couple of suggestions to fix this, but nothing that works so far. The best choice would be to lock it up somewhere, but it is on customer-owned premise, so other then telling them they shouldn't be messing with it, we don't have a fool proof way of keeping them out of it. A couple

Preventing password recovery

2000-08-09 Thread Michael Fountain
We have a cisco router (1720) at a customers location. The customer's techs have used the password recovery procedure to get into the router and look at the configs and change the passwords in them. Does anyone know how can we prevent the router from responding to a break during boot?

RE: Preventing password recovery

2000-08-09 Thread Michael Fountain
Well, I put the question to Cisco's open forum QA board, and got about the same answer there - it can't be done. So, I guess it is time to threaten to have the legal guys shake a stick at them and then lock the router up in a big metal box with a little tiny hole for the cable. Mike

Re: about the interval

2000-08-08 Thread Michael Fountain
The router displays the input/output rate and load for a five minute average. If you want to change it, you can do it on a per-interface basis with this command - load-interval xxx where xxx is time in seconds and can be any multiple of 30 from 30 to 600. hi guys: how to change the

Re: Stuck in ROMMON mode

2000-08-02 Thread Michael Fountain
If you are going to have someone console in locally, do this - In rommon mode, type confreg, it will ask you if you want to change the register, tell it yes. It will give you a bunch of options. Tell it yes for change the console port speed. Set it for 115200. That will disconnect you

Re: CSU/DSU lab

2000-08-01 Thread Michael Fountain
You have to make a T1 crossover cable (Pins 1 and 3 I think, but you should probably double check) and you will have to configure one of the CSU/DSUs to provide clocking, usually by setting its clock for internal instead of line. Dear group, Does any know how to connect up two CSU/DSU

Re: Help what is going on

2000-07-29 Thread Michael Fountain
From Cisco: * Error Message %RSP-2-BADCACHE: Overrun detected. End of MEMD buffer : 0x[hex] End of datagram : 0x[hex] bufhdr [hex]: [hex] [hex] [hex] [hex] Flushing Processor Cache Explanation A packet was processed that was greater in size than the

Re: Accesslist/ syslog question?

2000-07-29 Thread Michael Fountain
This is a multicast address used for a routing protocol, but I can't remember if it is EIGRP or RIP v2 If you need more info, I can let you know on monday. I have my Syslog Deamon running and I have been noticing this 224.0.0.10 address coming up every once in a while? I know it's not a

Re: About ping on router

2000-07-28 Thread Michael Fountain
It looks like your router may not be getting a response from your DNS server. Can you ping that server by its IP? Have you tried tracerouting from the router to the address that the PC was able to get to? I could ping IP address in windows 98 dos window successfully,but when i telnet on my

Re: T3 circuit connectivity

2000-07-28 Thread Michael Fountain
You may also want to consider plugging it directly into a switch with a layer 3 route/switch module. If you already have a switch in your network it might make more sense to upgrade the switch then to purchase a seperate device. I know the Catalyst4000 on up can handle ATM T3s. And I think

Re: CCDA question-512 bit times

2000-07-27 Thread Michael Fountain
Fibre doesn't actually break the 512 bit-time rule. You still need to keep your network under 512 bit-times from worst-case station to station. Fibre can have the longer lengths because it doesn't sucumb to attenuation as fast as copper. The differences in propegation time between copper and

Re: 1720 problem

2000-07-27 Thread Michael Fountain
I bet you're running 12.0.3T or 12.0.5T Upgrade to 12.0.7T and that should fix it. Jul 27 17:11:37 jelonki-r1-e0.man.polbox.pl 50: 00:14:18: %IPFAST-2-PAKSTICK: Corrupted pak header for Serial0, flags 0x80 Jul 27 17:11:37 jelonki-r1-e0.man.polbox.pl 51: -Traceback= 80050734 800272C0 8002CC60

Re: console password?

2000-07-27 Thread Michael Fountain
You almost got it. Once you define the password, you have to tell the router to request it. Try this - line con 0 password pwd login that should do it. Hi all, Can anyone help me in setting up the console password. The router should ask for the password whenever I connect the

Re: time and date on router

2000-07-26 Thread Michael Fountain
No, that is one thing I dislike about Cisc routers - they can't keep clock time. If you want to time to be correct in your routers you either have to set it every time you reboot, or use NTP or SNTP. Dear all, I set the time and date on he router and saved the same. Then after rebooting

Re: FAst Packet Switching

2000-07-26 Thread Michael Fountain
For IP traffic, on the interface you want to disable fast switching use the following commands - 'no ip route cache' - this turns off fast switching for unicast 'no ip mroute cache' - this turns off fast switching for multicast note - not all routers and ios versions accept the

Re: TFTP question

2000-07-25 Thread Michael Fountain
Expect and Perl seem to be the two most common scripting/programming languages for doing stuff like that. Hi All, Currently, we back up all the configuration files of our routers and switches to a tftp server manually. (need to telnet to every single router and do "copy start tftp" ) Is

Re: IOS Upgrade on CCO

2000-07-24 Thread Michael Fountain
From their main page, click on software center, and then click on the link for the upgrade planner. The more familiar you are with Cisco's web pages, the better off you'll be. A while back someone posted an URL that went to a page of IOS upgrades one could download if they had CCO access.

Re: Master Degree?

2000-07-23 Thread Michael Fountain
I've got a BS in Telecommunications from DeVry. I don't know if I would recommend that to anyone though. The classes were pretty basic and cost about 3 times what they should. I think my next step it to work towards an Electrical Engineering degree. GA Tech has a masters in Electrical

Re: CIT next week

2000-07-18 Thread Michael Fountain
I just finished it yesterday. Out of all the tests I think CLSC was the most poorly written, but CIT comes in a close second. The questions are very vague, and you often have to guess what they are looking for. They aren't extremely hard though, and if you are familiar with the topics you

Frame Relay Traffic Shaping Web Page

2000-07-18 Thread Michael Fountain
Here is a good link to a page that explains Ciscos frame relay traffic shaping - http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/125/21.shtml Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Frame-relay traffic shaping question

2000-07-18 Thread Michael Fountain
as I understand, it is not quite effective to controll QoS in FR, I am not sure whether someones have seen some detailed perfermence comparation betwee two kinds of traffic shaping. Thanks Kent --- Michael Fountain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The easiest way to do this is to only configure

Re: CIT: last minutte advices

2000-07-17 Thread Michael Fountain
No advice, but good luck! I've got mine in about 5 hours :) hello in 3 hours i will go for the CIT exam. anybody has last minutte advices ? 10x --- Gabriel Neagoe, GN379-RIPE Networking solutions consultant Cisco product manager, CCNA, CCDA ST

Re: NAT with secondary addresses

2000-07-17 Thread Michael Fountain
I've done it once or twice. Can you post a clip of your configuration? Folks, Has anybody tried NAT on interfaces with secondary addresses. I have a situation where I need to run NAT on interfaces with secondary addresses. I tried configuring the above, but it didn't work. As soon as you

Re: Frame-relay traffic shaping question

2000-07-17 Thread Michael Fountain
The easiest way to do this is to only configure the CIR and Line speeds and let the rest default. Example commands - int s0 frame-relay traffic shapping Enable FRTS on the interface frame-relay class ExampleClass Shape as defined in map class frame-relay map-class ExampleClass

Re: Load Balancing between two routers

2000-07-14 Thread Michael Fountain
Do you use any routing protocol between A, B, C?? Most of the routing protocols can be set up to load balance across multiple different routs to the same network if the metrics are the same. E/IGRP can load balance even if the metrics are not the same. Note - A is probably set for

Re: setting up a Menu on a 2511

2000-07-13 Thread Michael Fountain
Here is a basic list of the commands and their usage - http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios121/121cgcr/fun_r/frprt1/frd1004.htm#xtocid2860710 Here is a "create a menu" task list

Re: SAP filters

2000-07-11 Thread Michael Fountain
When you have a SAP input filter the router only learns about services that are permited by the list. When you have an outbound list the router only advertises services permitted by the list. Does that make better sense? I ran across the same thing when studying, the books explenation was

Re: DHCP Broadcast thru WAN

2000-07-08 Thread Michael Fountain
On the router that is connected to the segment the hosts are on use the following command: ip helper-address x.x.x.x where x.x.x.x is the ip address of your DHCP server. The router will turn the dhcp request broadcast into a multicast and then forward it across the wan. Hi all,

Re: DHCP Broadcast thru WAN

2000-07-08 Thread Michael Fountain
oops, sorry, yeah, I typoed that one. thats what i get for answering email before i'm fully awake. Michael the router will turn it into a unicast and not a multicast. Regards Atif -Original Message- From: Michael Fountain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Internal T1 WIC

2000-07-05 Thread Michael Fountain
I don't know if this will help or not. I've used the internal T1 cards on 1720, and had trouble with them when using IOS levels 12.0.3T and 12.0.5T Once we upgraded to 12.0.7T there were no more problems. I have a situation where a 1601 R 12.0 (3) is on ptp frame at frac T with 1 channel

Re: Serial0 is up, line protocol is down!

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Fountain
It depends on what your serial port is connected to. Is it frame relay, CSU/DSU, etc. Hello to All, If Serial0 is up, line protocol is down, then what should I check? Give me as many answers as you can. BTW what is the line protocol? is it a network protocol like ip, ipx? or is it the

Re: suppressing null update

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Fountain
Usually you will see this when you have a distribute list in place and the distribute list is blocking all of the updates. It could also happen if the router has only one connection active - all of the routes it knows about would come from that interface so it would supress all of those

Re: No debug over telnet

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Fountain
use the following command - term mon that will turn on terminal monitoring. that will let you see debug and log messages Hello, I have noticed that although I can turn debugging on over a telnet connection, I cannot watch the debug information over a telnet connection to the router. I

Re: Console get disconnected

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Fountain
Off the top of my head I think it is the - session-timeout - command that you can set on the line configuration. I seem to remember an exec-timeout also, but can't remember which does what. You should be able to look up those commands on Cisco's web page though. Hello to all, When I

Re: Analog Dial Backup

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Fountain
I haven't this yet, but plan to shortly - Cisco has something called "easy IP". You should be able to find some references to it on their web page. It is also in the IOS Dial solutions book. Basically it looks like you set up the router for NAT, and then also to recieve an IP from a DHCP

Re: Can you block CDP with an access list???

2000-06-27 Thread Michael Fountain
I found this on Ciscos pages - CDP sends packets on LANs using the multicast address 0100.0CCC.. So maybe that will help if you can set up an ACL by MAC address. But, I am pretty sure that if you turn off CDP on a router it will not respond to CDP requests from neighbor routers. I

Re: Redistribute Static

2000-06-26 Thread Michael Fountain
The only static route that is redistributed into the routing protocols by default is the default route. And, I know that is true for RIP, you'd have to look and see if it were true for other routing protocols also. If you want other static routes to be advertised you have to use the

Re: Route-Maps!

2000-06-25 Thread Michael Fountain
I haven't worked with route maps much, so this is just a first guess, but I noticed your second permit doesn't have a match statement. Do you have a match set up for the next statement you are wanting to do? Hi All, I am using Route Maps to assign different metrics to routes learned from

Re: Multiple PVC and subinterfaces

2000-06-24 Thread Michael Fountain
Hello, suppose that interface s0 my router is configured to use a frame relay PVC to connect to a remote site. Now I have two more remote sites that need to be connected to my router with FR PVC, one PVC for each remote site. My router has only one serial interface My quesions are: Can I

Re: How do I switch async to sync on a C1005?

2000-06-24 Thread Michael Fountain
I had the same problem with mine when I bought it. I had to get a new version of the IOS in order to make it change. Right now I have c1005-ny-mz.110-22 in it, and that runs s0 as a synch interface What shipped with it was c1005-qy-mz.111-8.2 and that had s0 as an asynch interface.

IOS naming convention

2000-06-20 Thread Michael Fountain
Hey, I just sent a note out about synch/asych ports on a 1005 being based on the IOS. Then I came up with this after I deleted the note. Thougth it might be ineteresting to pass on. IOS Naming convention - http://www.cisco.com/warp/customer/620/4.html#version The value of the IOS features

Re: cpu utilization ipx routing

2000-06-20 Thread Michael Fountain
when you do a - show proc cpu - what is using up the greatest precentage? i have a weird problem. it is a 2500 router. running ipx, apple , and ip. supporting apple machines with appletalk and ip. ipx is not needed at all. i take the ipx routing out then the cpu utilization goes up 25%. i

Re: utp gigabit ethernet ..

2000-06-14 Thread Michael Fountain
If I remember correctly, Gigabit requires Cat5e cable standards, which is slightly better then plain Cat5. Should be able to find the standards on the internet hi, Can anyone tell me about the required parameters for testing UTP gigbit ethernet cable or the speciifcations of UTP gigabit

Re: ATM

2000-06-07 Thread Michael Fountain
Actually, I would consider ATM more of a WAN technology that can run in a LAN using LANE. In the WAN it mostly runs on fiber, because of the high speeds that carriers run it at, although you can get it on a coax cable if you get an ATM T3 connection. My understanding (limited) is that ATT

Re: full meshed ip unnumbered network

2000-06-04 Thread Michael Fountain
I don't think the second solution would work to well if you tried to put all of the interfaces in the same network space, but 1 and 3 should be ok. I'm not too sure where the worry about load balancing comes in since each router only has one direct hop to the other. There should only be one

Re: Hello packets

2000-05-28 Thread Michael Fountain
I Think is it 10seconds for OSPF, I know it is 5seconds for EIGRP At 01:40 PM 5/28/00 +0800, Jacques Lee wrote: Dear all, I'm a little bit confused with the update time interval for hello packets sent in OSPF and EIGRP. by default, is it 10s or 5s ? Thanks

Re: packets

2000-05-25 Thread Michael Fountain
Since you didn't specify the protocol, I am going to assume you mean for a TCP connection. When one side wants to set up a connection with the other side, it does a "three-way handshake" by doing the following: A - Sends SYN=1, ACK=0, SEQ=1000, ACK#=0 B - Replys ACK=1, SYN=1, SEQ=5000,

Re: OT: Throughput Meter

2000-05-23 Thread Michael Fountain
-- http://www.ccci.com/tools/ttcp/index.html useful for IP based networks though. From Ganymede -- http://www.qcheck.net/ Michael Fountain wrote: This is slightly off topic, but does anyone know of a good, and preferably free :), utility that can measure the throughput of a network? I

OT: Throughput Meter

2000-05-20 Thread Michael Fountain
This is slightly off topic, but does anyone know of a good, and preferably free :), utility that can measure the throughput of a network? I have a couple Frame Relay connections that seem to be moving much slower then they should be, and I'd like something that could simulate some traffic and

Re: Configuration Register

2000-05-18 Thread Michael Fountain
It tells the router what to do at boot-up time. The meanings of the config register - Bit No. Hex Meaning 00-03 - 000F Boot Field Stay at bootstrap prompt 0001Boot system image on EPROM 0002 - 000F Specify default

Networking Acronyms

2000-05-09 Thread Michael Fountain
I thought this was a pretty cool link http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ita/ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ___ UPDATED Posting