From: Michael Snyder (msnyder@revolutioncomputer.com)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 13:01:42 GMT-3
Then again, what about the ccielab has to do with real world?
I've worked on some big corporate networks, and they used some pretty
low tech configs. Some poorly done static route redistributions into
eigrp was the most complex config I saw.
BTW, my first server install was Novell v2.2, I thought the install
program has lost it's mind after asking for the same floppies over and
over (floppy based server gen)
Those were the days.
The future is TCP/IP, so I can understand some peoples misunderstanding
about using IPX.
Thought, if want to protect you companies accounting data, from the
internet threats and sql worms, place it on a in-house novell 3.12
server running only ipx.
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Chuck Church
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:20 AM
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: Books new lab format.
Sorry to get a little off-topic, but I think Cisco is being a little
too
quick at removing topics that are pertinent in networks today. Sure,
the
lab is great at testing the cool new topics of today like layer 3
switching
and QOS, but there's still too many NW 3 and 4 servers out there to not
know
IPX. Realistically, about 1/4 to 1/3 of corporations use NW. If only
half
have migrated to 5 or 6 with IP support, that leaves a lot of IPX. And
the
larger the company, the greater the chance of seeing IPX. If you work
for a
reseller or as a consultant, knowing some IPX and even some AppleTalk
isn't
a bad idea. Can you imagine being brought in as a consultant, only to
tell
a Mac user you don't know how to get his Mac to be able to print over
the
network? Sorry about the rant, but I recently had a customer plan a
whole
server migration because he was told that "IPX was bad, and his network
would never perform right with it on there." This came from a CCIE who
should know better. So stop learning IPX, but do so at your own risk!
Now
back to your regularly scheduled program...
Chuck Church
CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE
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