Remove me from list

2000-08-01 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
Please remove my name from this august bunch and this great list. I'll request reinstatement after my 2 week stint in the caribbean for vacation. Rainman ___ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and

Re: Dealing with the garbage mail...

2000-07-29 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
Here's my cut: I don't know about ya'll, but I get >150 daily from this list. I agree absolutely and completely with Kevin; that is, I have long ago grown weary of "How many questions?" ... "I just passed my [fill in blank]" even more, folks asking even the most rudimentary question

Router throughput

2000-07-18 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
After further thought and having been a little short, I thought I'd add something to my previous offering. I specifically remember two very odd questions on the CCIE written (roughly) about this subject, no kiddin'. Throughput=Switching Time+(Packet SizexTime per Byte) Look at this formula

Re: High availability design with FR, how?

2000-07-18 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
My I please suggest you check out MHSRP? Natural TCP conversation load balancing it works: Oz wrote: have not read the whole thread but from my meager understanding using HSRP you need a live T to go with it .. To have the instant failover.. I will be playing with this in a couple

Re: Opinions on Caslows CCIE Book and How was Networkers

2000-07-17 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
IMHO, The Caslow "Cisco Certification" book is peerless. Al the right core stuff with the "What to do/What to look for" in a neat, understandable format. r/ rainman J K wrote: Hello Group , Anyone get to go to orlando to networkers havent heard much conversation about it besides

Re: Access List Question

2000-07-16 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
I'm sorry Mohamed, I have to disagree that this is not possible with Cisco IOS. All of the advice I've seen so far is true to Standard Extended ACL's. BUT, with Named Access Lists (=/ IOS 11.2) you can dynamically change the list, but you must disable the ACL wherever it's applied, and re-enable

Re: CDP not working on subinterface

2000-07-16 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
... m'tinks Ele'Chil' might be on to sumpin' here could you capture the sho fr pvc / and sho fr map from both ends of the one NOT passing CDP traffic... and post them? yeah, this is of some interest to me too, but priscilla hit the issue with the "broadcast" thread think of

Re: Router CPU power

2000-07-16 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
Howeird is completely correct. Sure enough, you can get cpu processor speeds from the gear fact sheet, but this is a poor indicator of how the box is going to perform under load. There are simply too many factors effecting actual throughput to use this metric for anything except a stripped-down

Re: 2505 routers

2000-07-16 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
They're just hub ports, with an internal controller BUT, if you want to pass traffic to another segment or if you want to employ other "routing" functions, i.e. ACL's, Policy Routing destinations, caching tweaks, etc. then the hub connected devices are the segment/broadcast domain those

What's wrong with this question?

2000-07-08 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
Which of the following is/are true? # An internetwork is usually confined to a single organization # An internetwork can connect many separate, and usually different, networks # An internetwork can connect similar networks and depending on the range of media attachments, transmission speeds,

Re: LAN to LAN bridge

2000-07-08 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
Only way I can think of to tie different parts of the same ip subnet together in disparate locations (routers) is through IRB. Here's a sample config: -;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;- version 11.2 ! hostname BVI1 ! ip subnet-zero ! interface Hssi0 no ip address

Re: Spanning Tree

2000-07-03 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
h A Root Bridge election is one function: determine which bridge in a collection of bridges on a LAN and for multiple inter-connected LANS will be the Root... The Designated Bridge election has another, different function: determine which bridge, as you noted, has the least cost path TO

Re: Static Routing or Route Maps

2000-07-02 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
Pardon my interruption Lekan I *believe* there may be one consideration missing from your advice. If I am wrong, please forgive me. Floating statics which point to a next hop address are, of course, hard-coded routes in your IGP table... no matter if the metric for a secondary or backup

Re: Explanation for PAT and ISDN Callback

2000-06-28 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
PAT=Port Address Translation To enable, end NAT IG statement w/ "overload" "Port" refers to TCP port ... so, on the inbound port, the IOS keeps track of the actual packet, because he assigns a unique tcp port to that data conversation... and recognizes the packet outbound (if it ever

Re: pasting access list to router config

2000-06-28 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
... the answer to your question is "yes" ... . adding/subtracting/manipulating acls is, and has always been, a little bit of a black art (most especially the big ones) you are not alone, my brother and no amount of experience is going to make this any easier... believe it you just

Re: Setting the time on the router

2000-06-27 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
c'mon guy, this is just plain lazy R1#en Password: R1#clock ? set Set the time and date R1#clock set ? hh:mm:ss Current Time R1#clock set [n' go from there] malzubt wrote: What is the simplest way to set the time on a router. thanks --== Sent via Deja.com

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

2000-06-27 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
again. read up udp=layer 4 cdp=NOT layer 4 in fatto: cdp is cisco's implementation of stretching layer 2 rules. The Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) Discovery Protocol CDP allows devices to share basic configuration information without even configuring any protocol specific

Re: Slightly OT: Telco Line Problems

2000-06-27 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
I have a vast wealth of (unfortunate) experience with US West no kidding. US West's internal customer care POLICY is to deny any problem with their FR network it's nearly assured you're experiencing problems arising from some of the US West extra-terrestrials. here's something

Re: ISDN Configuration - Help

2000-06-26 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
Aziz, Light! (Sorry, it's from "The Fifth Element" and I couldn't help it) First, the easy one: If you don't want RouterB to be able to dial to RouterA, simply do not define interesting traffic (am I missing something?) Second (the linear thinker in me) (Assuming Q.931 Q.921 are cool) Remove

Re: ip and subnet

2000-06-25 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
Let me have a whack at this (somewhat ambiguous) scenario 10.150.25.25/16 tries to ping 10.150.100.25/24 (assuming we're traversing a router, right?) 10.150.25.25/16 is trying to ping an address in his same network and the interface has no reason to believe that 10.150.100.25 is NOT in his

ACL Question

2000-06-24 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
*Still* haven't figured this one out: Create an IP ACL, in as few lines as possible of course, which permits only even-numbered IP addresses. Ideas? Rainman ___ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and

Re: VISIEO??? HELP!! Need Icons

2000-06-24 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
If you have visio, you can get some @: http://www.cisco.com/partner/visio/ if you don't, you SHOULD! Brandon Carroll wrote: Where can I find a downloadable program that has the icons for routers and switches for doing a network design? ___ UPDATED

Sample Question Question

2000-06-24 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
I ran across this question some time ago and kept the darned thing because (I *guess*) I still have something to learn about IP ... . just when I was *sure* I had it down cold. Could you lend a fella a hand? Given the IP address of 193.243.12.43 and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.128, what is the

Re: cpu utilization ipx routing

2000-06-24 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
What IOS are you running? Any tunneling going on there? You're right! This is weird Rainman Michael Fountain wrote: 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