switch default gateway question [7:72288]

2003-07-15 Thread gab S.E jones
Basically I want to know how best to approach the situation. Our network is all statically mapped no dynamic routing our switches(4506,3550,6509) are going to be changed to a different address range. the switches can accept more than one default gateway. The core routers addresses has to be change

RE: Network Analyzers [7:72346]

2003-07-17 Thread gab S.E jones
Hi, I prefer ethereal. I have used the the sniffers as well but personally I prefer the unix versions(maybe because im more comfortably with unix as you can have full control) e.g even tcpdump i find very good because you can use this with the ngrep utility to filter stuff. As suggested its quite

RE: switch default gateway question [7:72288]

2003-07-17 Thread gab S.E jones
Hi people, My sincere, sincere apologies that i didnt explain the situation more clearly. I deserve to get attacked. Have only started working on this customers network for a few days now Yes it is a flat network (thanks Fred). Have just started to review this customers network and still dont kno

RE: Error on an interface FastEthernet of a router 374 [7:72610]

2003-07-19 Thread gab S.E jones
hi, This type of error usually means that part of the paket being transmitted was not available while the interface started transmitting. regards, gab Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=72619&t=72610 -- FAQ, list arch

RE: Equation to calculate the Bandwidth [7:72888]

2003-07-24 Thread gab S.E jones
Hi, Il use the example you gave above using a 10MB = 1000 (bits) lets assume at t(time) InOctet was 4000 OutOctet was 3000 Total=7000 You have to convert the total In and Out octects(bytes) to bits(the link speed is in bits) hence to multiply by 8 7000*8=56000 56000/1000 (all in

RE: Bandwidth on serial interface??? [7:72966]

2003-07-24 Thread gab S.E jones
Hi, dont know how the tests are being conducted. But i know that when you do a show interface the bandwidth it will show will be what is stated with the bandwidth command statement. Even if the bandwith stated with this command is inputted wrong when you do a sh int it takes what is given in the

RE: Equation to calculate the Bandwidth [7:72888]

2003-07-25 Thread gab S.E jones
FRED dont really go on it any more myself (oVforum or the itrc HP NNM forum) either, havent been on it for many months since Dougie, Jim Sheedfar and some others quit I stopped going on it as well. I didnt mind answering newbie questions but after a while it just got so routine. regards, gab

RE: EIGRP Question [7:73068]

2003-07-26 Thread gab S.E jones
The answer is b. The command ip bandwidth-percent command tells eigrp how much percentage of the configured bandwidth it may use, the default being 50%. The bandwidth command is also used to set the routing protocol metric. This can be set to a particular value depending on what policies are in p

RE: Bandwidth Utilization [7:73086]

2003-07-28 Thread gab S.E jones
Hi, how are you measuring the utilization. Should I assume passively using snmp. On a wan link its a diffrent you have to measure in/out in both directions. Setting/determining the threshold is highly dependent on what the utilization is over a certain period of time by baselining e.g 3 months,

RE: tcp [7:73518]

2003-08-07 Thread gab S.E jones
1.Can the sender send more than the window size? No a sender can not send more than the window size e.g if we have two hosts A and B and B's advertised window size is 32kb. Upon the first tcp connection A(sender) can send up to the maximum window sise(segments) and it then has to wait for an ac