Re: Mostly an OSPF issue

2001-01-24 Thread Phil Barker
Just to add to the book list. OSPF Network Design Solutions by Thomas M. Thomas II is very good. Although, I picked this up last year and it was all "Double Dutch" to me. It has now become more readable after reading some of the other texts mentioned. Also see RFC 1586 : Guidlines for running OSP

OSPF cost and scalability to Gigabit ?

2001-01-27 Thread Phil Barker
Hi Group, Just been studying OSPF this week and have come accross the 'Cost' metric as being 10^8/bandwidth bps post 11.3 (bandwidth configured on the interface). My question is : Using the above equation 10 Meg Ethernet The Cost is 10 i.e 10^8/10^7. It then follows that 100 Mbit Eth The Cos

Re: OSPF cost and scalability to Gigabit ?

2001-01-27 Thread Phil Barker
Found it ... http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios120/12cgcr/np1_c/1cprt1/1cospf.htm#6793 Phil. --- Phil Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Group, > Just been studying OSPF this week and have come > accross the 'Cost' metric as being 10

Re: OSPF cost and scalability to Gigabit ?

2001-01-27 Thread Phil Barker
Found it ... http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios120/12cgcr/np1_c/1cprt1/1cospf.htm#6793 Phil. --- Phil Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Group, > Just been studying OSPF this week and have come > accross the 'Cost' metric as being 10

Re: Mr. Monclova is out of the office

2001-01-27 Thread Phil Barker
Sounds like he should look for a job at 'Fawlty Towers' Que !!! Phil. --- Brian Lodwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a quick reminder Manuel Monclova is out of the > office. > I wished we could e-mail bomb Mr. Monclova and shut > his e-mail system down, > but just think if it back fired. >

Re: how useful is certificationzone ?

2001-01-30 Thread Phil Barker
How can you forget your CCNP study ? Do you have a 'Brain Leak' ? I've been with CertificationZone for about a year now. The white papers do not contain all the material you will need to pass, which they happily admit to, but they are very well written and tend to keep to a certain formula presen

Re: OSPF command

2001-02-01 Thread Phil Barker
Duncan, The area field is 32 bits. Converting 0.0.0.1 to Binary gives '0001'. So I believe it would therefore correspond to decimal area 1. However, in the interests of consistency throughout your network you should use one technique OR the other. Regards, Phil.

Re: Blocking LSA Type 4 and 5's

2001-02-04 Thread Phil Barker
>>> SNIP Here's a slightly different question though for anyone. Could an ABR that is connected to a stub area (not an NSSA area) be an ASBR? In other words, does the fact that the router is a backbone router and possibly connected to other areas as well make it exempt from the rule that y

Re: Clarify the differences between Ethernet & IEEE 802.3

2001-02-04 Thread Phil Barker
IEEE 802.3 does indeed define the operation of CSMA/CD, which I believe is media - independent. I seem to recall that CSMA/CD was first tried out with a project called 'Alloah' in the 1970's between several islands, one being Hawaii, so radio was the medium here. http://www.smarthomeforum.com/e

Re: EIGRP Hello Packets

2001-02-04 Thread Phil Barker
James, I wouldn't have expected that, the likelihood of the loopback process crashing without the router crashing as well is miniscule. It looks more likely that Cisco have put it in for completeness. I would guess that the extra CPU overhead is also very small as well. Regards, Phil. ---

Re: RIF and dlsw

2001-02-13 Thread Phil Barker
.0021.00a1 .01D5.0080 Thats if we are all in Decimal. Phil. --- Jeff McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2 rifs for this... > .0021.00a0 > .0485.0080 > > > ""Garry Baker"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Guys, > > > > I

Passed CCNP failed CCIE written

2001-02-19 Thread Phil Barker
Hi groupies, Well I finally got the CCNP out of the way by completing Support 2.0. I found this paper very easy and thought it was way to biased toward ISDN. Thanks to everyone who participates in the list for your support and encouragement and some of your mighty fine answers. Missed out on CCI

Re: Masters vs CCIE.

2001-02-25 Thread Phil Barker
Rahul, Cannot help you with Stanford, I'm UK. I took my Masters in "Computer Networking" 8 years ago, it got me into networking (S/W Engineering) straight away. The course wasn't that helpful to what I do now (Network Engineering). This is an area that can lend itself heavily to Statistical A

Re: Lou Rossi's Token Ring paper

2001-02-25 Thread Phil Barker
I favour a physical star (Hub/Spoke) and a logical ring. Phil. --- "Bradley J. Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sitting here reading Lou Rossi's Token Ring > paper, and right off the bat > I have a question: > > He says that token ring is "a physical ring and a > logical bus" - but isn'

RIP I &IGRP load balancing, in the lab ?

2001-03-11 Thread Phil Barker
Hi Group, I have a problem regarding load balancing distance vector protocols namely RIP I and IGRP. I have 2x2500 routers connected via their serial interfaces respectively, s0->s0 & S1->S1. I have another router hanging off one of these Ethernet ports just to add some dimension to the net

Re: CCIE Written Question

2001-03-11 Thread Phil Barker
Yes --- "Paul M. Immo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quick quesion for those who have taken the CCIE > Written > > Can you go back after answering a question? > > = > Paul M. Immo CCDP CCNP MCSE > Imagination is more important than knowledge > Albert Einstein > > __

Resolved : RIP I &IGRP load balancing, in the lab ?

2001-03-11 Thread Phil Barker
hw !!! These things are set to try us. Regards, Phil. --- Phil Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Group, > I have a problem regarding load balancing > distance vector protocols namely RIP I and IGRP. > > I have 2x2500 routers connected via their serial &g

Re: SAP question??

2001-03-12 Thread Phil Barker
A, but if a route cannot be found it would be dropped. Phil. --- "Jimmy Wong (ERA)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A service SAP received without a route to that > service is > > A. Put on hold until the route is learned > B. Ignored > C. Installed in the SAP table > D. Forward to the Designate Ro

Re: CCxx Market: Going Off Topic!

2001-03-14 Thread Phil Barker
So it must be time to get them cisco shares then ? They look like a snip at $20 !!! Phil. > I predict a turnaround by this time next year. The > computer industry > has > always been cyclical. We'll come around again. --- Priscilla Oppenheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 08:13 PM 3/14/0

Load Balancing RIP I ?

2001-03-19 Thread Phil Barker
Hi Group, This has been nagging at me for about a week now. I have 2 x 2500 routers connected via serial cables. S0 -> S0 and S1 -> S1. I have a PC connected to one router and my Laptop to the other. The fast-switching cache is enabled on the four serial interfaces and hence per/destination

Re: Load Balancing RIP I ?

2001-03-20 Thread Phil Barker
Yes, and IOS 11.2(14) on both routers. Regards, Phil. --- info <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Each of your 4 serial interfaces has > ip route-cache applied to them? > > Do both routers have the same IOS version? > > Phil Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >

Re: Question about eigrp

2000-11-21 Thread Phil Barker
The passive-interface command behaves differently for different routing protocols. EIGRP with passive-interface does not send hello packets and therefore does not form adjacencies with neighbors. Very useful when testing new WAN Links in live environments. regards, Phil. --- "Raul F. Fernandez"

Re: x.25 question help

2000-11-21 Thread Phil Barker
B --- Zhang Jin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear group, > > I have a question about x.25 transmit rate as > following: > What is the maximum transmission rate for X.25? > > A. 56 Kbps > B. 64 Kbps > C. 128 Kbps > D. 1.544 Mbps > > Thanks > > dean > > > _ > FA

Overrun Errors ?

2000-11-22 Thread Phil Barker
Hi, Quick definition for Overrun Errors : "The Input Rate has exceeded the buffers ability to handle the data. The buffer in question is the receive buffer" Extract from CIT course notes. Q : Is this buffer referring to the buffer on the network interface card or the system buffer ? I´m presum

Line Down , Protocol Up ?

2000-11-22 Thread Phil Barker
Hi Gang, Just been looking at the binary possibilities of these options i.e 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 And feel thet that Line Down, Protocol Up is impossible. Can anyone confirm this or has anyone seen anything quirky of this nature. Regards, Phil

Re: some problems about the WFQ

2000-11-22 Thread Phil Barker
I doubt there is any magic here, but I´m guessing. i.e the number of dynamic queues can be held in 8 bits. In answer to 1 (16,32,64,128) there probably isn´t any networking reasoning. It looks more like a coding issue i.e in binary just one of the bits is set to binary 1. It presents easy coding

FDDI address field size ?

2000-11-23 Thread Phil Barker
Greetings, Reading through CIT course notes Appendix A. It states that the Frame Control field indicates the size of the address fields i.e variable, this is followed by the size of the address fields is 6 bytes. Does anyone know the history behind this ? I´m guessing that it was being pos

WAN Protocols, Connection Oriented V Connectionless ?

2000-11-23 Thread Phil Barker
Hi, Does anyone have a link for a definitive comparison between cnnection oriented versus connectionless WAN Protocols ? e.g SDLC, HDLC, HDLC (Cisco), LAPB, PPP. I realise that SDLC, HDLC, LAPB, PPP are all in effect the same frame format and I´m thinking they should all be connectionless allo

No Subject

2000-12-01 Thread Phil Barker
Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie _ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.

WAS : IP RIP V.1 in the LAB ? Remember this one ?

2000-12-01 Thread Phil Barker
Hi Gang, Do you recall the RIP 1 problem I posted about a month ago ? Went along the lines of TOP, MIDDLE, BOTTOM Routers. Serial link between MIDDLE & TOP. Serial link between MIDDLE & BOTTOM. Ethernet between TOP & BOTTOM. RIP 1 configuration. I did post this, but got no replies. Anywa

Remote discovery of a Servers Network Mask ?

2000-12-01 Thread Phil Barker
Hi Gang, I had Fluke in this week showing me one of their gadgets for basic problem determination i.e 10/100 Meg duplexity. Which pairs are being used etc. It discovered one of our Unix Servers, and gave it a classfull A mask i.e /8 which I new was incorrect from experience it has 8 bits of su

Re: Frame Relay SVC

2000-12-06 Thread Phil Barker
www.cisco.com SEARCH "frame relay svc" http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios121/121cgcr/wan_c/wcdfrely.htm --- Ken Yeo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any one knows how to configure Frame Relay SVC > switch on Cisco routers? > > The Cisco configuration guide has examples

CCIE certificationzone.com Mock Exam 754/1000

2000-12-06 Thread Phil Barker
Any Zone Fans out there ? Hit a 754/1000 tonight, I'm well pleased, but do you think I'm ready or just knocking on the door ? Past results, 629 636 670 608 (Bad Day) 706 706 706 (Getting Cheesed off) 754 (Happier) Any comments appreciated. Best Regards, Phil. __

Off Topic: Ryan says Merry Xmas

2000-12-10 Thread Phil Barker
Merry Christmas Everybody. Ryan (AGE 5) Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie _ FAQ, list archives, and subs

Re: Eigrp Problem!!!!

2000-12-12 Thread Phil Barker
Have you proved that the WAN Link is good. i.e BERT tested it end to end ? Phil. --- Aliko Lebby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please help me on this eigrp problem! > I have configured Eigrp on some routers in our WAN > (i.e the one that i want > to have eigrp working), but some of the routes a

Re: CCIE Prep Lab in the UK

2001-01-05 Thread Phil Barker
Craig, Martin Shortland has been recommended to me by a CCIE. The NetGun Accademy was given a thumbs down by the same CCIE. regs, Phil. This is based down near Southampton, and I have heard it is supposed to be the business. It is an intensive 2 weeks, where you are given 70-80 exercises

OSPF DR/BDR election (bcast media) ?

2001-01-09 Thread Phil Barker
Hi group, Got OSPF set up on two routers, sharing the same network, and I'm looking at the Overall elaection process from start-up with a Sniffer. According to the CCIE Lab Study Guide (Hutnik/Saterlee) P.381 the third hello packet shows Router B as elected DR ? My investigation agree

Re: OSPF--ccnp question

2001-01-09 Thread Phil Barker
Charles, To view the neighbors use "show ip ospf neighbors" To view the Link State database use "show ip ospf database". Also, "debug ip ospf adjancencies" is very useful in a lab cenario. Regards, Phil. --- charles paver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. Accd. to the BSCN text, OSPF main

RE: ip route question

2001-01-09 Thread Phil Barker
H, Not so sure if it is a good idea though !!! I tried this one time at work where I inserted a static route to a network more than one hop away, although I had "re-distribute static" on the EIGRP configured router it created a wonderful little routing loop and I went home late again. Re

Re: Can IPX traffic be forwarded thru PIX?

2001-01-10 Thread Phil Barker
Firewalls in general do not support the passing of IPX at layer 3. In the past I have set up GRE Tunnelling to hop the ipx packet over IP which worked fine. Downside is higher header overhead due to the encapsulation of IPX over IP. I also remeber having a problem whereby I had to switch of fast

Re: New router LSA created after full adjacency?

2001-01-10 Thread Phil Barker
Scott, I'm currently working on OSPF myself and believe your question has already been answered in an earlier post. I have found using a Sniffer very helpful, used in combination with the debug commands you mention. If you add 'debug ip ospf packet' you can start to match the sniffer tra

RE: Need your opinion

2001-01-10 Thread Phil Barker
Have to agree with both posts here. The method that you outline to achieve CCIE status i.e taking all the courses etc, I think you would achieve CCIE status, however, you would still be missing real world experience. This could be termed a 'paper' CCIE although you would obviously be very valuable

Re: New router LSA created after full adjacency?

2001-01-10 Thread Phil Barker
4 OSPF packet and is multicast to 224.0.0.5 i.e all OSPF routers to let them know that an adjacency has been successfully formed. HTH, Phil. --- Phil Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott, > I'm currently working on OSPF myself and > believe > your question has a

Re: OSPFadjacencies

2001-01-12 Thread Phil Barker
It will depend on the number of interfaces that are configured on the routers for OSPF operation. The main point to remember is that not all Routers will become adjacent. For a broadcast network such as Ethernet you may have N Routers. 2 of these Routers will be elected DR and BDR and will form a

CertificationZone White Paper EIGRP ?

2001-01-15 Thread Phil Barker
I'm having trouble with the equation referenced on page 5 (A4) concerning the metric calculation. Ref Don Dettmore. If this equation is correct as it stands and K2=K4=K5=0 Then the Right Side of the equation will be 0, which when multiplied by whatever on the left side will equal 0. i.e metric =

RE: CertificationZone White Paper EIGRP ?

2001-01-15 Thread Phil Barker
t; > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Phil Barker > Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 11:59 AM > To: cisco GroupStudy > Subject: CertificationZone White Paper EIGRP ? > > > > I'm having trouble with the equat

Anyone Recommend ATM Books ?

2001-01-16 Thread Phil Barker
Hi Group, I am currently faced with the unsavoury prospect of expanding an ATM LAN to a WAN environment, in 2 weeks. Plenty of time for an ATM novice such as myself. This is naturally for all the wrong reasons i.e the IBM Mainframe is currently hanging off this smallish ATM LAN and they are

Re: Anyone Recommend ATM Books ?

2001-01-17 Thread Phil Barker
27;s paper from CertificationZone.com and am considering her book as one of my sources so far. Any other links will be very welcome. Get well soon, Regards, Phil. --- Lauren Child <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Phil Barker wrote: > > Can anyone recommend some ATM material ? I'

Re: RIP--Network command

2001-01-17 Thread Phil Barker
Stu, It may be worthwhile to consider that you are the router. A friend or neighbor has told you that you can reach another network if you go via a certain destination point i.e interface address. So this route you now understand that to get to this network go that way. Your job now is to tell

Appletalk AURP/RTMP ??

2001-01-18 Thread Phil Barker
Greetings Group, I have very little info- on Appletalk, I used to own "Inside Appletalk" but that was many moons ago. Can anyone tell me : Is AURP a distance Vector Routing Protocol ? I know that RTMP is but am wondering if AURP was a similar solution to Novel IPX/RIP with NLSP, however, I do

New Token Ring speed of 10 Meg/s (Teaser) !!!

2001-01-18 Thread Phil Barker
Hi Group, I'be just invented a new Token Ring to bridge the gap between 4 and 16 Megabit/second Ring Speeds. The ring speed is 10 Meg/s. If I adopt the hold timer set out by IEEE 802.5, What will the maximum frame size be for my ring ? ... For a bottle of bubbly !!! Now that I have a new fram

RE: ISDN PRI -> ISDN PRI ?

2000-09-14 Thread Phil Barker
egley > > Austrapay Ltd > > Ph: +61 2 93298916 > > Fx: +61 2 9209 8880 > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -Original Message- > From: Phil Barker > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 14 September 2000 2:06 > To: cisco GroupStudy >

Re: Re[2]: max no of connections for vty

2000-09-15 Thread Phil Barker
Hi, Noticed recently that 3524 switches IOS 12.x support 16 vty lines. Phil. --- John Kaberna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I tried my only options were to start with 0-4 > and end with 1-4.Not > sure why it would be different. > > - Original Message - > From: Thomas Peroutka

Re: EIGRP Summarization

2000-09-19 Thread Phil Barker
Yes, Cannot see any problems with that. Regs, Phil. --- Todd Weedon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone confirm for me. The highlighted line > below will force EIGRP to > advertise 10.18.0.0 instead of 10.18.11.0. Is this > correct ? Is there > anything else I need to worry about ? Th

Re: CCIE Questions... Answer to Q3 ???

2000-09-19 Thread Phil Barker
I havn't read this thread so apologies if this has been done already. Computer 1 sends to Computer 2. Router B relays a valid frame to computer 2. Assume no other devices on Segment B for clarity, computer 2 must be transmitting a frame on this segment in order for the collision to occur. There

Re: CCIE Questions... Answer to Q3 ???

2000-09-20 Thread Phil Barker
ld not be re-transmitted. If however, the "original" frame is the first frame from router B then the answer is more obvious and I agree. Regards, Phil. --- Priscilla Oppenheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 07:08 PM 9/19/00, Phil Barker wrote: > >I havn't

Re: Question about SRT and SR/TLB

2000-09-20 Thread Phil Barker
SRT bridges do not add or remove RIFs to frames. Regards, Phil. --- Yongzhi George Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know that with SR/TLB, the bridge add and remove > RIF according the > direction of the frame. My question is, with SRT, > does the bridge add > and remove RIF? Thanks. > I

Re: CCIE Questions... Answer to Q3 ???

2000-09-20 Thread Phil Barker
be an actual exam question, > but there will be a > number of questions on the exam that are very > similar. Be prepared to know > who will do the retransmit under any giver > circumstance and what the layer 2 > and layer 3 addresses will be. Good Luck! > > Dale >

RE: Migrating from EIGRP to OSPF - Bad News!

2000-09-27 Thread Phil Barker
I recently had 32 bit networks inserting into our EIGRP network caused by ppp on the WAN links and remote users dialing in via ppp. This was purely a ppp issue and was solved by summarization. Regards, Phil. --- Chuck Larrieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I couldn't resist. I had the ro

Re: CCIE written vs CCNP 2.0

2000-09-27 Thread Phil Barker
I haven't, but I have sat about 6 mock CCIE tests with certificationzone.com. I think you need to buff up on dial-up for the CMTD or equivalent and the CLSC that I sat was mainly a memory test of how many ports and what type are available with which cards. (Pretty useless info required unless ww

Re: Explanation for VLSM

2000-09-28 Thread Phil Barker
Shane, Try http://noc.gate.net/doclib/faqs/help/net.html Read and Weep !!! Regards, Phil. --- Shane Stockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any good links for VLSM or could someone > give me a good > explanation.The archives are unavailable. > > Thanks >

Re: EIGRP Port number

2000-10-02 Thread Phil Barker
However, It does use RTP (Reliable)to guarantee some of the message exchanges. Regards, Phil. --- Reinhold Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It uses neither udp nor tcp. It uses its own ip > protocol (protocol number 88). > TCP has ip protocol nr. 6, UDP has ip protocol nr. > 17. > >

RE: ccie written

2000-10-02 Thread Phil Barker
Its cheaper to sit the mock exams at www.certification.com . Regs, Phil. --- Jim Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It could be a good idea to spend the $200 if you > feel good about the exam > just to identify your weak areas. That $200 could be > the best study > evaluation tool you use. >

EIGRP and Hub and Spoke ?

2000-10-03 Thread Phil Barker
Greetings Groupies, I have a question concerning EIGRP configured in a Hub and Spoke Topology. I have a number of remote networks that are not worthy of a backup link. i.e they won't pay for it and I don't like them anyway. If this link goes down the hub router which feeds into the rest of

Re: Exam Help CCIE

2000-10-03 Thread Phil Barker
www.certificationzone.com www.groupstudy.com Regs, Phil. --- Pieter Jordaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am planning on doing My CCIE soon Can anyone > recommend good books for the > CCIE Exam and supply sample questions. > > Thanks > > > Pieter Jordaan > The Internet Solution Hosting > >

Re: BOOKS FOR CCIE WRITTEN

2000-10-03 Thread Phil Barker
Try, www.groupstudy.com click on books link. Read and Weep Regs, Phil. --- "Steven B. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are some good books to prepare for the written > exam? > > Thanks! > > Steven > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > **NOTE: New CCNA/CCDA List has been formed. For

Re: EIGRP and Hub and Spoke ?

2000-10-03 Thread Phil Barker
uld > just dump the packets at the router, and not trigger > DUAL. > > Anybody see a fault with this? > > Background: > HUB area 5 2500/2600 series routers, and a AS5300 > Remote sites mostly 2500 or 2600's. > > Original Message Follows > From: Phil Bar

Re: HSRP

2000-10-06 Thread Phil Barker
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ics/cs009.htm IOS 10.0 and later supports HSRP. See link. Regs, Phil. --- Andre Fecteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Is HSRP supported on 2600 series routers? In > particular, I'm wondering > about the 2611. I don't see anything in

Re: CCIE written

2000-10-11 Thread Phil Barker
Derek, Apart from the booklist at www.groupstudy.com I'm using www.certificationzone.com for white papers and Mock CCIE tests. I've just purchased CIM from Cisco for CCIE Lab, ISDN and DCN, as I felt my progress has been to slow of late. regards, Phil. --- "Winchester, Derek S." <[EMAIL PR

Re: Erlang B

2000-10-12 Thread Phil Barker
Agner Krarup Erlang (ref. An Introduction to Queueing Theory, by Kashyap and Chaudhry, 1988, p. 1) published his first paper on the subject in 1909 (according to Cooper, Introduction to Queueing Theory (Second Edition), 1981). Erlang was an Danish engineer who worked for the Copenhagen Telephone E

No Subject

2000-10-13 Thread Phil Barker
Hi groupies, Can anyone enlighten me on the process by which per-packet load-balancing re-assembles the packets at the remote router. Which sequence number is used e.g is it the TCP sequence number. Regards, Phil. Do You Yahoo!?

per-packet load balancing ?

2000-10-13 Thread Phil Barker
Hi groupies, Can anyone enlighten me on the process by which per-packet load-balancing re-assembles the packets at the remote router. Which sequence number is used e.g is it the TCP sequence number. Regards, Phil. Do You Yahoo!

Thanks Mr Doyle.

2000-10-13 Thread Phil Barker
Boy oh Boy. What a week. Had a 2 Meg WAN link swamped. Everyone complaining. Noticed that the preferred route (hopwise) wasn't being taken. It was preferring taking about 4 hops over another 2 Meg link then HSSI at 6Meg followed by two Fast Eth Segs. Protocol is EIGRP. After banging my head for

Re: packets out of order due to load-balancing

2000-10-14 Thread Phil Barker
ion, then an upper layer at > the end node would have > to do it. > > Priscilla > > At 04:13 PM 10/13/00, Phil Barker wrote: > >Hi groupies, > > Can anyone enlighten me on the process by > which > >per-packet load-balancing re-assembles the packets >

Link status up-down on 3524 switches ?

2000-10-16 Thread Phil Barker
Currently this message is flooding our network management console. Does anyone know how to disable it ? is "no logging event subif-link-status" the candidate for each port on the switch ? Regards, Phil. Do You Yahoo!? Get your free

Re: IP Subnetting Question

2000-10-17 Thread Phil Barker
Robert, You need to read up on the difference between classfull and classless networks. Take the address 100.1.0.0 The classfull mask for this network is class A which is 255.0.0.0 or /8 . There is no subnetting yet. Lets say you want to provide 8 bits of subnetting. then you have 100.1.0.0

Jeff Doyle Routing TCP/IP Question

2000-10-20 Thread Phil Barker
Hi gang, Can anyone confirm p.241 of TCP/IP Routing, the table in question has HSSI (45Meg) pipe with a 2 usec delay. When I do a "show int" I get a 200 usec delay on my HSSI links. Has anyone got another source of this info ? or an errata for the book ? Regards, Phil. _

Re: Jeff Doyle Routing TCP/IP Question :

2000-10-20 Thread Phil Barker
D]> wrote: > The errata is here: > > http://www2.ciscopress.com/uploads/errata80.pdf > > Tim > > > > ----- Original Message - > From: "Phil Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "cisco GroupStudy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

RE: CRC error

2000-10-24 Thread Phil Barker
Cable Lengths may be out of spec. Try a Bert Tester if you can. Regards, Phil. --- "McCallum, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > phone the carrier and get them to test their line. > If they say that it is > fine then check your g703 cables. > > -Original Message- > From: Ramesh c [m

Re: Not receiving ICMP messages

2000-10-25 Thread Phil Barker
Steve, Without CLI access your going to struggle. Q : How far does the traceroute get, from the send node ? try rfc 792 ICMP http://www.landfield.com/rfcs/rfc792.html >> SNIP from RFC 792 If a host reassembling a fragmented datagram cannot complete the reassembly due to missin

3524 switches and GBIC technology ?

2000-10-25 Thread Phil Barker
Hi, When using three 3524 switches GBIC'D together an Ethernet Bus is formed. Cisco recommends patching Port 2/Switch 1 to port 1/Switch 2 and port 2 Switch 2 to port 1/Switch 3. Does anyone know why ? Why not port 1/Switch 1 to port 2/Switch 2 and port 1/Switch 2 to port 2 /Switch 3 ? T

Re: Not receiving ICMP messages

2000-10-25 Thread Phil Barker
ocking it > down from 1500. Is it a > possibility to increase the MTU size on the link? > > Gaz > > "Phil Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Steve, > > Without CLI acce

TACACS loopback problem ?

2000-10-27 Thread Phil Barker
Greetings, I've come across an issue with TACACS whereby when you require authentication for a router, the router uses the nearest interface to the TACACS Server and thus uses this interfaces IP address for its Source Address. Now if this link goes down. The routing protocol decides on using

TACACS loopback problem ?

2000-10-27 Thread Phil Barker
Greetings, I've come across an issue with TACACS whereby when you require authentication for a router, the router uses the nearest interface to the TACACS Server and thus uses this interfaces IP address for its Source Address. Now if this link goes down. The routing protocol decides on using

Redistribution of static routes ? : Late for my tea, AGAIN !!!

2000-10-27 Thread Phil Barker
Hi Gang, I have 2 routers separated by a 2Meg WAN Link. Router A & Router B. Router B is my last configurable router before some other poor gits responsibility. Router B is running EIGRP with redistribute static Router B contains a static route : ip route 99.75.0.0 255.255.0.0 (Router B's Et

ATM white-paper certificationzone.com

2000-10-30 Thread Phil Barker
Hi, Just working my way through this quite excellent paper at the moment by Galina Pildush. Page 11, first paragraph (A4 - that is) "the throughput of an OC-3 link (155Mbps)is approximately 2.5 million cells per second." 155 * 10^6 = 15500 bits per second. 15500/8 = 19375000 bytes pe

Re: Unknown Protocol / Broadcast Traffic

2000-10-31 Thread Phil Barker
RFC 1700 Assigned Numbers, does not have an allocation for this. Regards, Phil. --- Minh Vu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi group, > > I ran Etherpeek 4.0.1 demo version and Sniffer Pro > 3.5. I saw Ether-88-6F > protocol broadcast from my Win2k Advance server. > > In Etherpeek it said Eth

CCIE prep trainining UK

2000-11-01 Thread Phil Barker
Hi, I'm hearing positive vibes about a training course run by Martin Shortland in the U.K for CCIE Lab prep. A 12 day course running at around £3900 + VAT. Has anyone got any comments or got a link for this course ? PS : Also heard negative comments about NETGUN. Regards, Phil. ___

Re: EIGRP Neighbour - keeps flapping

2000-11-01 Thread Phil Barker
Andrew, What IOS version are you running on ? Do you have any other Routers on any other Token Ring segments ? I believe that major surgery was implemented in IOS 11.3 for EIGRP not sure how that would effect Token Ring though. Have you analysed the Token Ring Segment for errors e.g beacon

Ping HSRP 224.0.0.2 Strange reply ?

2000-11-01 Thread Phil Barker
Hi, I have 2 Routers connected via 3 Fa/Eth segments. The segs are configured in an HSRP arrangement. I pinged 224.0.0.2 from one Router and got 3 replies that I expected from the other router PLUS one that I dont understand. This phantom device that replied cannot be telneted nor tracert' but

Re: Ping HSRP 224.0.0.2 Strange reply ?

2000-11-01 Thread Phil Barker
entry is there, trace down > device... > 3 sniff. > > -jm > > "Phil Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Hi, > > > > I have 2 Routers connected via 3 Fa/Eth segments. &g

7500 VIP Question.

2000-11-03 Thread Phil Barker
Hi group, I've got a 7507 Router with a dodgy VIP card. I've noticed that the running config has changed since the fault on the card developed. This would suggest that this part of the config actually sits on the VIP card and not in Normal RAM. The NVRAM config still reflects what the true co

Re: IP RIP V.1 in the LAB ?

2000-11-07 Thread Phil Barker
Thanx for the input, Unfortunately the configs are 120 miles away. I only really get a chance to play at the weekends when I'm back home. But there is really nothing fancy in the configs. When I cut the link TOP->RIGHT I waited for the route to get flushed out the table i.e 280 secs (I think) B

Re: IP RIP V.1 in the LAB ?

2000-11-08 Thread Phil Barker
sful issue. RIP from "Right" would send a > null update, if there was > nothing to send, ie. the other router, "Left", knows > how to reach all of the > "classful" networks. Left sent its update first, > so, Right just sends null > updates.

RIP V.1 configs & route tables as requested

2000-11-10 Thread Phil Barker
Here they are, I'm on leave for 2 weeks, so I have to shut down my account temporarily. If we get a definitive answer could someone kindly email it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have fun, Now the fun starts, Lager, Lager, Lager Phil. middle#sh run Building configuration... Current configuration

Re: RIP V.1 configs & route tables as requested

2000-11-21 Thread Phil Barker
Hi all, Still in Spain, was their any progress on this ? Regards, Phil. --- Phil Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here they are, > > I'm on leave for 2 weeks, so I have to shut > down > my account temporarily. If we get a definitive > answer >

RIP II Route update ?

2001-04-02 Thread Phil Barker
Hi groupies !!! I just happened upon this' whilst trying to rest my brain from BGP. A RIP II update sends a network mask out onto the wire for every network the router is advertising. Why didn't the designers just code the network mask as a 6 bit field which could represent any mas

RIP II Route update ?

2001-04-03 Thread Phil Barker
Sorry Howard, I appear to have deleted the original thread. Howard, You mentioned that computing the network mask from a 6 bit field would be detremental causing unnecessary CPU overhead, however, this CPU overhead would only be in nano-seconds compared to the serialisation delay i.e getting

Re: probably simple question about decnet

2001-04-05 Thread Phil Barker
David, I don't know enough about Decnet to help you but be wary when sniffing that the MAC address that the sniffer picks up is different than what you would expect. Decnet uses an algorithm to convert the "real" MAC address to another. Also I seem to remember a lot of munticasting takes plac

Re: AppleTalk on Support exam [7:269]

2001-04-12 Thread Phil Barker
I took the support exam in Feb 2001 UK. There was appletalk on, in the form of sniffer output, what is this frame ? etc. I had about 10 of these type of questions, which is good if you know your sniffer. Regards, Phil. --- Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: > For those of you who have taken the Supp

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