Re: PAT AFTER NAT (confused) [7:66734]

2003-04-03 Thread Scott Roberts
this is the current nat setup I have on one of my PIXs: global (outside) 1 xxx.xxx.223.235-64.172.223.236 global (outside) 1 xxx.xxx.223.237 nat (inside) 0 access-list 100 nat (inside) 1 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0 0 heres the translations: PAT Global xxx.xxx.223.237(16882) Local 192.168.2.18(2193)

Re: WIC 2A/S working at speeds greater than 128kbps. [7:66733]

2003-04-03 Thread Scott Roberts
I think thats the maximum of asynchronous communication that they've put into their documentation, I don't think there is an upper limit to the real transfer rate. I suppose you could clock a asynchronous transmission way up into the Mbps range and that interface would still suck it in. granted the

Re: so how does IGRP unequal load-balancing work anywa [7:66795]

2003-04-03 Thread Scott Roberts
your example is fair. I haven't seen many real example of load balancing. in the case you're describing you can simply change the metrics on one of the routers 'secondary' link to the other router. this would prevent it from passing anything it received from the one router back to itself. yes the w

Re: hacking challenge [7:66720]

2003-04-03 Thread Scott Roberts
my company does a lot of firewall consulting and I run into this question all the time. frankly I don't have a great answer for it though. packet filters (i.e. access-lists) are technically first generation firewalls, so they do have a firewall in place already. the sell really comes into play whe

Re: IP route to Null0? [7:66755]

2003-04-03 Thread Scott Roberts
null0 is used as an alternative to access-lists. it is a blackhole. so anything routed to it gets dropped automatically. an access-list uses more processor overhead than a null interface and thus if you have a certain part of your network that you don't want to go anywhere, then use a null interfac

Re: Computer for ISP [7:66736]

2003-04-03 Thread Scott Roberts
well georgeW, your questions seem a little hidden. what are you asking? why an ISP would need a server? for dns is the first example that comes to mind. btw, 4 more? scott ""George"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > A computer is to be purchased for an Internet Service Provider (ISP)

Re: CCNP Recertification Exam Review [7:66644]

2003-04-03 Thread Scott Roberts
thanks for the advice. seems like very good and concise info! I have to laugh though, I started my ccnp over two years ago, passing three of the four tests and then got caught up in work related projects (damn work!) and put my certificatiosn on the back burner. the funny thing is, my ccna was abo

Re: so how does IGRP unequal load-balancing work anyway? [7:66722]

2003-04-02 Thread Scott Roberts
considering hold-down times and split horison, why do you think that packets would bounces in a loop under normal conditions? I think under normal conditions if a route is considered valid enough to be included in a routing table, its not going to be a loop. I think EIGRP only looked for alternate

Re: "off-topic" posts - WAS - RE: What tools can tell u r using [7:66723]

2003-04-02 Thread Scott Roberts
something tells me you never fully considered the merits of that website. take another hard look at it and then questions its relevance to cisco. ;) scott ""cebuano"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Paul, > How many more of these "off-topic" threads are you going to allow? > > -Ori

Re: Router-to-external MODEM connection [7:66585]

2003-04-02 Thread Scott Roberts
confirm to me that this connection is possible, the thing is that > I need some kind of instructions to do the connection. Do you know how to > do this or can you point me to some url where I can find step-by-step > instructions to configure this. > > Thanks a lot for your time and hel

Re: Cisco 2511 Hardware Issue [7:66662]

2003-04-02 Thread Scott Roberts
I'm assuming your configuration is fine, but what do the controllers show and are the interfaces showing any errors? scott ""Tim Champion"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Has anyone experienced, or heard of, the following problem: > > I recently bought a 2nd hand 2511 but only async i

Re: Router-to-external MODEM connection [7:66585]

2003-04-01 Thread Scott Roberts
you'll need a WIC with a async/syn serial port, I know they're available for the 1700's, but I'm not sure if the same wic will work in a 1600. then you can specify the interface as async and connect up the modem with a db60-rs232 cable. scott ""Diego Martmnez Boqui"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL

Re: BCRAN: 700 or 800 Series Router Commands? [7:66290]

2003-03-30 Thread Scott Roberts
I agree that you should know the generalities of the 700 series. I bought one anyway off of ebay, it was only $20 for a 776M, so I wasn't out a whole lot. the 800 is IOS so there isn't much to worry about in terms of commands. scott ""fred barreras"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > All

Re: Console management [7:66405]

2003-03-30 Thread Scott Roberts
if you mean like a 2511? an access server to allow you to telnet into all your routers and not keep switching the console cables around? well you could buy a 2511 (or 2512 for token ring) to do the job, it has 16 ports. the problem with this is that you'll pay a premium on ebay for it. an alternat

Re: Console management [7:66405]

2003-03-28 Thread Scott Roberts
I should warn you about my last response regarding the 'Digi portserver', I had to make my own custom cables though, the regular cisco rollover doesn't work. so if you're not used to crimping your own cables, I wouldn't go with the portserver. scott ""Kazan, Naim"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL P

Re: Natting problem...help!!! [7:66111]

2003-03-28 Thread Scott Roberts
I've never had to implement a dns change, but supposedly yes it does change the payload. there is only a few services where is does these payload changes though. another big one used to be ping, NATing modifies the payload of that also. scott ""Charles D Hammonds"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL P

Re: NAT overload as security [7:66015]

2003-03-24 Thread Scott Roberts
I work with a lot of different vendors firewalls and IMO PAT is a security feature (to a degree). like many other security features its not perfect by itself, but when combined with other features its creates a full firewall. technically PAT alone would be an aspect of stateful inspection/translat

Re: PDM Question [7:65954]

2003-03-24 Thread Scott Roberts
I agree, they are a few aspects missing from PDM, such as the mentioned VPN/cryptology, but I find that it helps when you need to configure a basic firewall quickly. I find that I'll put the basic interface commands in CLI and then I'll setup NAT through the PDM interface. scott ""Steve Wilson""

Re: 2501 and 2503 Lab [7:65942]

2003-03-24 Thread Scott Roberts
you can accomplish many of the things you're looking for, the trick is to have the correct IOS image. if your routers only has a basic IP image you might not be able to do some of these functions. the other thing to conssider is the amount of memory you have to implement everything using verion 12,

Re: DS3 bandwidth issues [7:65790]

2003-03-21 Thread Scott Roberts
is based on the ANSI T1.107 guidelines. The ITU-TS > guidelines differ somewhat. > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > > MADMAN > > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 4:32 PM > > To: [EMAIL P

Re: Unable to delete flash [7:65529]

2003-03-20 Thread Scott Roberts
nue? [confirm] > %Error squeezing bootflash (File open for write) > > A reboot has been suggested. Any other ideas? > > Thanks, > Tim > > -Original Message- > From: Scott Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 3:16 PM > To: [EM

Re: Why did Cisco do this? Off Topic [7:65834]

2003-03-20 Thread Scott Roberts
why not? my boss came to me this morning prior to the announcement and thought they were going to say they were buying checkpoint! scott ""Elijah Savage"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cisco buys Linksys. > > http://www.quicken.com/investments/news/story/?story=NewsStory/BW/20030320

Re: DS3 bandwidth issues [7:65790]

2003-03-20 Thread Scott Roberts
why do people refer to a DS3 as a DS3 and not a T3? is there something I'm missing? scott ""Nate"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > We've run a bandwidth test on our DS3 with nothing connected to it but a > workstation (and obviously a router/pix). We went to testmyspeed.com as > well

Re: Unable to delete flash [7:65529]

2003-03-19 Thread Scott Roberts
from the cisco IOS command reference: delete: "When you delete a file, the software simply marks the file as deleted, but it does not erase the file. This feature allows you to later recover a "deleted" file using the undelete command. You can delete and undelete a file up to 15 times. To permanen

Re: Upgrading IOS with new flash on my 2500's [7:65472]

2003-03-18 Thread Scott Roberts
I can honestly say that I've never upgraded my IOS's by console cable. I didn't even know that the 2500 supported that, I only thought that it was the 3600 that supported transfer over the console cable? has anyone done a console cable transfer with a 2500? william, you can do your upgrade in one

Re: CCIE [7:65426]

2003-03-17 Thread Scott Roberts
yes definitly a knock, couldn't remember where I had heard a lot of this before, but the link reminded me. still parts of this were good, some though need some work. perhaps we could all rewrite part of this to come up with a really good job description? I'd change the part "at the same time, per

Re: Back-to-back FR P2P circuits with Different Dlci's [7:65595]

2003-03-17 Thread Scott Roberts
that command isn't necessary with back-to-back cabling. the interface's controller can determine the cablings orientation and set the interface to the correct type automatically. what I don't see is the dce providing a clocking rate. scott ""John Neiberger"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Main Diagnostic Menu on 2501 router??? [7:64427]

2003-03-14 Thread Scott Roberts
t last week and I found 2 Diag roms instead > of the needed boot roms. > > Thanks everyone. > > JM > > ""Scott Roberts"" wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > what I would check isopen up the case and see if there is a "credit >

Re: Layer 3 Switches Vs Routers [7:65215]

2003-03-14 Thread Scott Roberts
> In the end, the device either routes or bridges the frames it > receives, but takes no action that can be distinctly described as layer > three switching. > > Pete > to my basic understanding ALL routing has a switching component to it already, whether we're talking about regular routers or L3 s

Re: slow wan connection [7:65165]

2003-03-13 Thread Scott Roberts
my guess is similair to guys, I think you might be getting some routing issue with packets not going optimally between your two carriers. obviously try tracing and better than that use the ip option for recording routes. see how the packets are really negotiating the outside. scott ""Lupi, Guy""

Re: PIX Question [7:65095]

2003-03-13 Thread Scott Roberts
strange that it would create another translation instead of using the old one?? I suppose its more an error in the client software thinking it still has a valid server connection and tries to open a brand new one then. the only thing that comes to my mind would be to expire your translations faste

Re: Bandwidth calculations [7:65008]

2003-03-11 Thread Scott Roberts
what do you mean by "bandwidth useage"? if you talking about baseband, the entire bandwidth is used. broadband of course would be calculated upon what spectrum range you're using. scott ""Robert Perez"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Anyone know how the conversion techniques for conv

Re: Help In T1 CSU/DSU [7:64962]

2003-03-11 Thread Scott Roberts
what command are you using and what type of line are you trying to connect to? (frame or t1?) what are the specifications of that line? scott ""Monu Sekhon"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi all > I have T1 Csu/dsu card on 2691 platform > Whenever I execute any service module command

is 10baseT dead? [7:65077]

2003-03-11 Thread Scott Roberts
I don't know why I started to think about this topic over the weekend, but I got to thinking about network design using 10baseT ethernet. I'm a network engineer and work closely with sales. everytime in the past two years we've gone into a project, sales has always used upgrading to 100baseTX as a

Re: Network Design - What Priscilla did NOT cover in her book: [7:64957]

2003-03-10 Thread Scott Roberts
wow, I've never worked on such a large order, but the RFPs I've designed out have never been this much of a joke. it seems that the IT staff of this company had no clue what they wanted or needed and decided to get some free advice! the only similair scenario I can mention is when a small private

Re: 10 half or 100 full [7:64931]

2003-03-10 Thread Scott Roberts
took quite a > bit of research into FastEthernet NWAY/Autonegotiation to determine the > problem. > > Just a forewarning. :-) > > >>> Scott Roberts 3/10/03 12:12:48 PM >>> > if I understand what you're saying, I think its always been like that, cisco > has

Re: 10 half or 100 full [7:64931]

2003-03-10 Thread Scott Roberts
if I understand what you're saying, I think its always been like that, cisco hasn't changed it. you're refering to the fact that the IOS switch don't let you change the speed? I think thats strange also, the set based switch can allow you to change speed, but after the IOS "upgrading" of switches

Re: Dynamic Natting with a CISCO 1601R [7:64757]

2003-03-07 Thread Scott Roberts
try putting more memory in, the max i think is 24, but default is like 12. ios 12.0 requires 8MB, so you're only really working with 4MB. scott ""Hyman, Craig"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ALL- > > I am having a problem with Dynamic Natting using a 1601R router over Frame > Relay.

Re: Teminal server problems [7:64746]

2003-03-07 Thread Scott Roberts
you didn't show your interface configuration, do you have at least one not shut down with the ip address 1.1.1.1 ? scott ""McHugh Randy"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I cant seem to access any of my routers from the term server . Here is the > config and what errors i am getting > !

Re: network design [7:64422]

2003-03-07 Thread Scott Roberts
I guess I'm the only one with the problem of that many then. I'll take your words for it that it works OK, but I still keep thinking back to that one study (don't recall its name), and can't help but think effiecency would go by some noticeable degree. anybody can through switch and hubs around, w

Re: it started out as a really good idea ... [7:64638]

2003-03-07 Thread Scott Roberts
nice catch daniel, I've never used that before, will be mulling this one over in my lab for the next week. learn something new everyday, scott ""Daniel Cotts"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > standby track (interface) might do the trick. > http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/619/6.html >

Re: EIGRP for CCIE Written [7:64707]

2003-03-07 Thread Scott Roberts
I agree completely. I think the whole "hybrid" was a marketing department decision. I'm just glad to find out I wasn't the only one who thought this. scott ""Peter van Oene"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > At 03:54 PM 3/7/2003 +, The Long and Winding Road wrote: > >""Peter van Oen

Re: Silly EIGRP question [7:64259]

2003-03-07 Thread Scott Roberts
never heard of that command...doesn't exist to my knowledge (at least on 12.0) scott ""Shyam, Sharma S (CAP, GECIS)"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Missed the command > > show ip eigrp timers > > rgds > > > -- > > From: Shyam, Sharma S (CAP, GECIS) > > Reply To: Shyam, Sharm

Re: ip ospf dead-interval [7:64311]

2003-03-07 Thread Scott Roberts
in real life its hard for me to keep my mouth shut, so even if I intend to be elusive in answers from now on, I'll probably just shoot my mouth off here too and just give the answer. I suppose some of us new-comers will keep you 'old farts' on your toes! ;) (you know who you are!) scott ""fred b

Re: PPP vs HDLC [7:64362]

2003-03-07 Thread Scott Roberts
I guess my understaning is limited, so I'm interested in hearing the results of this also. I've seen the flags left off of various protocols before, but I assumed they were simply being sloppy. I can't understand how any protocol could be transmitted without any flag/preamble at all. scott ""Pri

Re: Main Diagnostic Menu on 2501 router??? [7:64427]

2003-03-07 Thread Scott Roberts
what I would check isopen up the case and see if there is a "credit card"/PC card/pcmcia flash memory module inserted into the mainboard (you'll see the slot, its obvious). also make sure there is standard memory inserted in the regular memory slots. lets us know what you find. scott ""Jean-

Re: OSPF attempting to form adjacencies with non-DR/BDR [7:64664]

2003-03-06 Thread Scott Roberts
it might be interesting to see what would happen if you put their priorities up and rebooted the existing DR/BDRs, let them complete their adjacencies and then put them back down to normal (or even 0). then see if the behavior goes back to the previous. after that I'd try a different IOS image and

Re: Password recovery without reload? [7:64453]

2003-03-06 Thread Scott Roberts
next question is, who or why did they let the last admin near the servers/routers after he was fired? President Bigshot: "sorry bob, I'm going to have to let you go" Bob: "no problem, I'll just go get my things" next day President Bigshot: "bob? you're still here? I thought I fired you yes

Re: Cheap Domain Name register? [7:64557]

2003-03-06 Thread Scott Roberts
considering that register.com provides DNS service also, I think its cheap. for eample, Time Warner charges $4/months for DNS service! scott ""Wes Stevens"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Any advice on a cheap and good domain name register? I am > tired of paying out the nose for regi

Re: ISDN switch (beyond simulator) [7:64628]

2003-03-06 Thread Scott Roberts
if you didn't need the the simulated telco switch d-channel, then your best bet would be to use a PBX system. in other words, if you simple needed the lines to be circuit switched like a isdn cloud would do without the actual isdn protocols. this is basically putting in an NT2, but bypassing any n

Re: Password recovery without reload? [7:64453]

2003-03-05 Thread Scott Roberts
"what? you don't have all your passwords printed out in large type on a sheet of paper taped to the equipment rack? what kind of operation you running there? :->" damn I really did LOL at this! sorry oscar I think you're screwed without some form of password, the snmp idea is good, but the ques

Re: 10 half or 100 full [7:64482]

2003-03-05 Thread Scott Roberts
yes cat3 can be used for 100base, but only wih 100baseT4 and chances are that the cards in your workstations are only TX. so its safer to run 10base over cat3 cabling. scott ""Mike Momb"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To all, > > I know this subject has been talked about on a worksta

Re: creating console cable for cs11152 [7:64368]

2003-03-05 Thread Scott Roberts
esn't work When I use the > CS11152 adapter on rollover it does work. What I'm trying to figure out is > what do I have to do to a cat5 cable to make it work without the CSS11152 > adapter. > > ""Scott Roberts"" wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: can one someone pls recommend [7:64380]

2003-03-04 Thread Scott Roberts
boy you don't give up do you!! have you tried the http://www.ccbootcamp.com/index.asp scott ""Mirza, Timur"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > a hands-on lab training course for the ccie lab exam...i want to prepare > myself for my 6th attempt...i believe there was ecp course but i don'

Re: ip ospf dead-interval [7:64311]

2003-03-04 Thread Scott Roberts
if people never get a straight answer, will they then stop asking questions? its nice to see an open forum about cisco networking thats actually well populated, I'd like to support it as much as I can. scott ""Priscilla Oppenheimer"" wrote in message news:[EMA

Re: creating console cable for cs11152 [7:64368]

2003-03-04 Thread Scott Roberts
ducts_installation_ > guide_chapter09186a00800df9d6.html#xtocid3 > > if you look at the table they RXD and DSR both going to to pin 3. > > > ""Scott Roberts"" wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > the console port is identical to

Re: NAT ON PIX QUESTION [7:64398]

2003-03-04 Thread Scott Roberts
basically yes, I think your statement is correct. 1) I haven't configured a PIX recently, but I don't recall it requiring an access-list for static address translation, since the port is actually part of the static (or conduit) command. Now I'm sure you'd want a ACL, but simply for the same reason

Re: creating console cable for cs11152 [7:64368]

2003-03-04 Thread Scott Roberts
the console port is identical to every other cisco router (eia-232, 9600 baud). http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/accessor/ps107/products_tech_note0918 6a0080094ce6.shtml scott ""Sam Sneed"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Has anyone done this before? I have a few CSS but don't ha

Re: My Favorite Topic - RIP route propagation / redistribution [7:64388]

2003-03-04 Thread Scott Roberts
"In my setup I saw that so long as I had the 200.0.0.4 address on the R4 loopback that the 200.0.0.0/24 refused to propagate. it did not show up in the R4 table. " it has to be in your R4 routing table as a directly connected subnet. I suppose what you mean is that it doesn't show up as either a os

Re: ip ospf dead-interval [7:64311]

2003-03-04 Thread Scott Roberts
shoulds like you're trying to answer a trick question on a test? I suppose "The Long and Winding Road" wanted you to work for your answer, but I'll come out and tell you. ospf defaults the dead-interval/hold-time as a multiple of the hello time, so if you change the hello time the dead interval ch

Re: PPP vs HDLC [7:64362]

2003-03-04 Thread Scott Roberts
I've never heard efficiency as a reason to use PPP over HDLC. there are more options with PPP, but otherwise both are based upon SDLC and therefore nearly identical from a protocol perspective. I suppose HDLC are a couple bytes smaller, but this would be negligable. I'd say if your PPP is configur

Re: Help Pix 501 [7:64278]

2003-03-04 Thread Scott Roberts
I agree with richard the only way you're going to do this with a single ip address is by setting up a vpn and then telneting as a second step. scott ""Richard Deal"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Juan, > > The PIX does not permit you to telnet into it from the "outside" > interface--

RE: Cisco 2511 and US robotics modem [7:64261]

2003-03-03 Thread Scott Roberts
I'm sure that the default usrobotics modemcap will work on your modem. What exactly is not working on your connection? What process have you gone through to connect it? Modemcap entries can be viewed on the router by 'show modemcap' to reveal the names of the modems supported by default scripts an

RE: pinout for terminal cable [7:64269]

2003-03-03 Thread Scott Roberts
If the Livingston port is a eia-232/DTE then you're basically set to go. Just use a roll-over cable. On the chance that the livingston port is a DCE, use a straight-through cable (which might be the answer since it was a female to begin with). scott -Original Message- From: John Golovich

RE: Silly EIGRP question [7:64259]

2003-03-03 Thread Scott Roberts
Show ip eigrp neighbor, will show the hold time. The hold time is updated when a hello packet is received. The default hello time interval is 5 seconds so you're neighbors will always be reporting a hold time between 10-15 seconds. scott -Original Message- From: Michael Williams [mailto:[

RE: tftp to flash timeout [7:64226]

2003-03-03 Thread Scott Roberts
He still should be able to place it into flash irregardless of what router its meant for. I think the problem is a size issue. Every 12.0 ios requires 8MB of flash and I suspect the one he's trying requires 16MB. He should use the command "no partition" first to combine the flash partitions into o

RE: routername(boot) ??? [7:64188]

2003-03-03 Thread Scott Roberts
(boot) is for "boot-helper" image. That means that the configuration registers were set in a manner to either purposefully boot to boot helper mode or to boot to it if you have an error loading up an image from any other location. The boot helper image is basically a trimmed down version of the r