From: Mosley, Arthur (Arthur.Mosley@xxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2000 - 14:19:50 GMT-3
Every book has errors. This one has fewer than most. The quality of the
McGraw-Hill Technical Expert book series for Cisco is probably the best
around. Even the Caslow class includes a book from the series as required
reading(Advanced Ip Routing in Cisco Networks by Terry Slatery(CCIE#1026)and
Bill Burton (CCIE#1119). Moreover, I highly recommend every book in the
series and I not even a stock holder.
art
-----Original Message-----
From: pkm@calweb.com
To: Tony Jackson
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Sent: 1/25/00 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: Cisco Routers for Bridging, DLSW+ & Desktop Protocols
Tony Jackson wrote:
>
> Doesn't sound like a good book to me. You praised the book in the
first
> paragraph then in the second paragraph you list all of these mistakes.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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Of
> pkm@calweb.com
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 2:30 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
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> 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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