Re: How route redistribution EXACTLY works (followup)

From: Todd Carswell (acarswell@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Feb 15 2002 - 12:02:24 GMT-3


   
Wow! You guys are drilling all the way to China on this redistribution
stuff. It's only 1 command in IOS with a few options attached to it.

If you spend an inordinate amount of time on 1 subject, you're neural
network will suffer RAM memory leakage. :-)

Todd Carswell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jaeheon Yoo" <kghost@chollian.net>
To: "ccielab" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>; "Howard C. Berkowitz"
<hcb@gettcomm.com>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: How route redistribution EXACTLY works (followup)

> Hey, Howard.
> I always admire your posts. :)
> But as you admitted at the bottom of your own post, I'm afraid you've gone
too far here.
>
> I think that's the difference between the requirements for administrators
and those for implementors in general.
> When I read some RFC stuffs, I'm always having this kind of confusion.
> Do we ever really need such in-depth knowledge that may be useful only to
real protocol implementors?
> Yes, it will help us when we know every detail of ins and outs of
protocols, I know that.
> But we're already behind the schedule to cover ever expanding variety of
networking subjects.
>
> Anyway, thanks for your insights.
>
> Jaeheon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com>
> To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 12:49 PM
> Subject: RE: How route redistribution EXACTLY works (followup)
>
>
> >
> > I hate to follow up my own posts, but let me offer some suggested
> > general reading.
> >
> > Look at RFC1812, which will give some broad specifications.
> >
> > John Moy's OSPF books will give you an example of how a protocol
> > implementation is designed -- the second book has the code of an
> > actual implementation.
> >
> > You can also download the free Zebra code and examine it. Zebra's
> > command language is closer to Cisco's than is GateD. Old versions of
> > GateD are downloadable, but the more recent versions are commercial.
> > Indeed, there's a commercial version of Zebra called IPinfusion.
> >
> > At some point, you're going to need to understand a fair bit about
> > data structures and searching them. Donald Knuth's _The Art of
> > Computer Programming_, Volume 3, has a good deal about it. You also
> > may want to do web searches for radix and Patricia trees (also
> > spelled tries). The IOS internals book has some material on this sort
> > of table.
> >
> > Agreeing with some other posters, this is interesting material, but
> > frankly I'd call it at a level beyond CCIE.



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