From: Ben Rife (brife@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2000 - 00:25:00 GMT-3
I bought the book as well. I agree, it's a good reference in it's own way,
but certainly no BRS by Caslow. I agree that it has several mistakes and
things I disagree with, such as the ...no split-horizon... on EVERY
frame/X.25/ISDN intf for most protocols. I agree with Caslow on this issue
(only on a hub router / multipoint intf). But all around good buy. It has
some interesting DLSW configs.
Ben
----- Original Message -----
From: <pkm@calweb.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Cc: <pmoulay@ens.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 5:29 PM
Subject: Cisco Routers for Bridging, DLSW+ & Desktop Protocols
> 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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