From: pkm@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue Jan 25 2000 - 19:29:35 GMT-3
Dear Members,
I bought this book because I was weak on Desktop protocols and DLSW. It
complements the Caslow book admirably.
IPX always is on the lab (5 points) as well as DLSW (5 points). This
book particularly explains how to configure IPX, IPX EIGRP and AT, AT
EIGRP very well as well DECNET, VINES. I particularly appreciated the
frame-relay and ISDN examples for each of the protocols. It is worth the
$55.
I do have couple questions about some of the examples in this book:
1) p228-p229 example about HDLC config. I do not see a clock rate
command. Is it a mistake or an oversight. I thought you need one router
to act as a DTE and the other one as a DCE?
ALL the HDLC examples in this book do not use this.
2) Caslow book mentions the fact that when configuring EIGRP for
appletalk
the statement appletalk routing eigrp process-id
automatically insert the command
appletalk route-redistribution
it is not true. I tried it. You have to add it manually.
3) this book disable split horizon on all the routers for IPX EIGRP and
AT EIGRP/RTMP for performance reasons-
the author says "with NBMA networks, like Frame-relay or X.25,
situations can arise where this behavior is suboptimal". I do not agree
with the author (but I am no CCIE!!!) - in a NBMA hub and spoke topology
(like advised by Caslow) - disable it on the hub router only - I agree
with Caslow.
4) Be careful, when you configure zones and each the router are attached
to the same switch- the zone names need to be the same. Solution: create
a VLAN on the CAT5000 per Zone. A zone in AT language is definitely a
VLAN!!!
5) When configuring EIGRP/IPX or EIGRP/AT in a all frame-relay physical
interfaces, I obtained spoke-to-spoke reachability without configurign
any frame-relay map statements. Why? I had to do for IP.
If anyone is interested I got working configs.
Sincerely,
Phillip Moulay
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