From: Tim Fletcher (groupstudy@fletchmail.net)
Date: Thu Oct 14 2004 - 10:56:29 GMT-3
Most of them have some history as to how they got started. In many cases it's the result of changes nade to newer versions. One of the reasons they survive (and one of my pet peeves) is that Cisco does not date their documentation. There are many cases of conflicting information on CCO (really, trust me on this:). This is not always the result of an error, but may instead reflect changes in functionality or best practices. That's fine, but the problem is without a date, you don't know which one to believe. Any technical documentation should always have a date. Somebody at Cisco must have missed that day in technical writing 101.
At 01:44 PM 10/13/2004, Gene Thorne wrote:
>What is interesting to me about these myths is how they get started in the
>first place and even more perplexing is how they survive. As Brian pointed
>out, in most cases they can be disproved in 5 minutes on the command line.
>Yet the admin distance 0 myth that I cited can be found in such respected
>sources as Doyle and Caslow/Pavlichenko and the ones Brian lists are equally
>widespread. Weird.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: James [mailto:james@towardex.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:32 PM
>To: Brian McGahan
>Cc: Gene Thorne; ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: Re: Something New (the myths we believe)
>
>
>On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 01:18:19PM -0400, Brian McGahan wrote:
>> Better yet that you can't remove a line out of a numbered access-list
>> without destroying and recreating the entire list. (you can)
>>
>> "no arp frame-relay" stops inverse-arp replies (it doesn't)
>>
>> ppp authentication is a two way process (it's not)
>>
>> Don't start listing these behaviors as "gotchas" though, they
>> are simply technologies that the fundamental behaviors are
>> misunderstood. Most of these "myths" can be eliminated by simply trying
>> the configuration out and seeing how it works firsthand on the command
>> line.
>
>I fully agree with Brian on these. These questions or "gotchas" likewise
>here
>are probably worth memorizing if this was more or less of a written exam
>pin pointing out how much you know about the specifics. But the lab is
>result
>oriented so whatever you type on the router should give you hints as to what
>is going on :)
>
>-J
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