From: Jon Carmichael (jonc@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Oct 03 2001 - 03:34:27 GMT-3
You need advice about DLSW+, -and since I've read so much on it, --I have
some recommendations about what I've found. Please forgive me bitching and
griping about Caslow somewhere in the middle.
Caslow seems to cover Frame Relay very well and with a lot of detail, --but
I've been very disappointed in Caslow in all the other areas. I bought both
first and second edition, where he was very broad in topics but depth was
sorely lacking in some areas. His coverage of DLSW is mediocre, --a good
introduction but not as in-depth as you need. For just a sentence or two I
must say about Caslow that his coverage of multicast in the second edition
is totally pitiful and downright wrong! He implies that when doing
multicast you can choose several multicast routing protocols, and then says
multicast OSPF is one of them, --not true, --cisco does not support MOSPF in
any way, -obviously he was writing with very minimal knowledge of that
topic! He gives a single example about PIM dense-mode, --and nothing of PIM
sparse-mode, --leaving you totally unprepared for the lab exam, --but your
question was not about multicast.
After you've read about DLSW in Caslow, -I've found that Nam-Kee,
"Configuring Cisco Routers for Bridging, DLSW+ & Desktop Protocols" was
useful. Altho Nam-Kee is a very poor writer, with a lot of repeating
himself, --he does go deeper than Caslow.
To be very thorough, --nothing beats CCO! These are the URLs that are the
best I've found. If anybody else has any to add to this short list, --I
would appreciate a message back.
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/698/acl200.html
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/697/dlswfilter.shtml#macfilter4
The above are foundational stuff on filtering...
This can provide additional information about DLSW troubleshooting.
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/697/6.html
And lastly the bitswapping tool, --but you need a login.
http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bitswap/bitswap.pl
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JONC
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
michael robertson
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 3:12 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: need advice for DLSW+
Hi, Dear friends,
I am reading CASLOW DLSW+ at the moment, I am not sure
whether I need to read APPN, SDLC, QDLC, RSRB etc more
detail than the book. WHat will be the good materials
if i need it?
How about CISCO SNAM course materials, I have that
material and it will help. But not sure whether I need
to read all of the book.
ANy recommendation will be appreciated
regards
michael
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