Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-23 Thread Ron Trunk
Howard and dre, First of all, thanks for the excellent thread! You've given me a great deal of information about service provider issues. I was dimly aware of some of them, but now I see how they really affect ISP operations. I've printed out the whole thread and when I can get some quiet time

Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-23 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 3:33 PM -0400 5/23/02, Ron Trunk wrote: >Howard and dre, >First of all, thanks for the excellent thread! First, thanks for letting me know you are still around! >You've given me a great deal >of information about service provider issues. I was dimly aware of some of >them, but now I see how

Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-24 Thread dre
""Ron Trunk"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Howard and dre, > First of all, thanks for the excellent thread! You've given me a great deal > kids (ha!), I'm going to go over it in detail. Thanks for all the links > too! It's helpful to know what the best thing

Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-24 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
At 07:32 AM 5/24/02, dre wrote: > Cisco router to solve any problem, even those that shouldn't be solved >with >a router! And how about all the people who try to turn the router into a troubleshooting tool? You wouldn't believe how many times I've had to convince people that the debug commands

Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-24 Thread Chuck
""Priscilla Oppenheimer"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > At 07:32 AM 5/24/02, dre wrote: > > Cisco router to solve any problem, even those that shouldn't be solved > >with > >a router! > snip for brevity > > I know this is a tangent from the real discussion, but

RE: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-24 Thread Moffett, Ryan
2002 1:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876] At 07:32 AM 5/24/02, dre wrote: > Cisco router to solve any problem, even those that shouldn't be solved >with >a router! And how about all the people who try to turn the router into

Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-24 Thread Henrique Duarte
Why can't I sniff my telnet login/password in clear text but can sniff my pop3 login/password in clear text? I'm using Sniffer Pro 4.5. Thanks, -H - Original Message - From: "Priscilla Oppenheimer" To: Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:20 PM Subject: Re: Provider Back

Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-24 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 1:25 PM -0400 5/24/02, Chuck wrote: >""Priscilla Oppenheimer"" wrote in message >[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >> At 07:32 AM 5/24/02, dre wrote: >> > Cisco router to solve any problem, even those that shouldn't be solved >> >with >> >a router! >> >snip for brevity >> >> I

Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-24 Thread Chuck
""Howard C. Berkowitz"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > At 1:25 PM -0400 5/24/02, Chuck wrote: > >""Priscilla Oppenheimer"" wrote in message > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > >> At 07:32 AM 5/24/02, dre wrote: > >> > Cisco router to solve any pr

Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-24 Thread Sasa Milic
Because pop3 username and password use two packets (one for "USER username" and another for "PASS password" command). With telnet, every keystroke is transmitted in separate packet. It is possible to collect them all and reconstruct username/password, but it's not trivial as with pop3. Sasa CCIE

Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-24 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
At 02:42 PM 5/24/02, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: >Only tool? Match up column A and column B (I'm only citing things >that actually are in my own shop), and cite the equivalent routers. > > tack hammer6" spike > 8 oz two-faced mallet 4d finishing >

Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-24 Thread MADMAN
I have to respectfully disagree, Done correctly with caution when necessary the router is an excellant and often the only troubleshooting tool. If your unpacking a Sniffer your in deep doo doo as it's quite rare I require it to solve a network problem. Don't get me wrong, they are essential an

Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-24 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
Well, maybe I overstated it a bit. ;-) My main complaint about the debug commands is that the output is too cryptic. Also, some of them were clearly designed for the Cisco developers not for the end user of the router (network admin, engineer). The information they provide is simply not helpful

Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-24 Thread MADMAN
Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: > > Well, maybe I overstated it a bit. ;-) My main complaint about the debug > commands is that the output is too cryptic. Also, some of them were clearly > designed for the Cisco developers not for the end user of the router > (network admin, engineer). The informati

Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-24 Thread Chuck
""MADMAN"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: > > > > Well, maybe I overstated it a bit. ;-) My main complaint about the debug > > commands is that the output is too cryptic. Also, some of them were clearly > > designed for the Cisco devel

Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-24 Thread Kevin Cullimore
e WAN packet capturing tools. Certain debug argument hierarchies, for example those associated with ppp & ospf, DO give enough header information to solve some problems such as mtu negotiation mismatches. - Original Message - From: "Priscilla Oppenheimer" To: Sent: Frida

Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-25 Thread Chuck
It figures, Howard, that you would have a plethora of sizes and types of hammers in your garage. I have only one, and believe me, just about every household repair problem indeed looks exactly like a nail. Even the one involving the pulling up of carpet to repair the rotted flooring underneath. I

Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-26 Thread Kevin Cullimore
posal is disconnecting and reconnecting power cables, then every problem looks like a " - Original Message - From: "Chuck" To: Sent: 25 May 2002 3:48 pm Subject: Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876] > It figures, Howard, that you would have

Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-27 Thread travis marlow
Howard, When is your book "Building SP Networks" going to be coming out? I think that this book can really help me out. I have noticed in my quest to build the best SP that I can, that there's not really any one resource to address all of the issues. Being new to the SP space, I am looking for

Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-27 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
>Howard, > >When is your book "Building SP Networks" going to be coming out? I think >that this book can really help me out. I have noticed in my quest to build >the best SP that I can, that there's not really any one resource to address >all of the issues. Being new to the SP space, I am looki

Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-27 Thread Ron Trunk
""dre"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... ... > Exactly the reason why the CCIE: Design didn't pan out, and why the > CND/CID course material is a wee bit out-of-date. Real world experience > is impossible to test on any type of standardized exam. There is no > "sho

Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-27 Thread Ron Trunk
""Howard C. Berkowitz"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > At 3:33 PM -0400 5/23/02, Ron Trunk wrote: > >Howard and dre, > >First of all, thanks for the excellent thread! > > First, thanks for letting me know you are still around! > I've started teaching 'unofficial'

RE: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876]

2002-05-28 Thread R. Benjamin Kessler
--Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sasa Milic Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Provider Backbone Engineering and CCIEs [7:44876] Because pop3 username and password use two packets (one for "USER username&q