From: David Prall (dcp@dcptech.com)
Date: Sun Oct 28 2007 - 00:52:04 ART
FDDI - actually had a customer requiring a replacement switch the otherday.
Had a failure, and their spares had finally run out. I still see Token Ring
that is installed and running. A lot of IBM Mainframes and FEP's out there.
David
-- http://dcp.dcptech.com> -----Original Message----- > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On > Behalf Of Scott M Vermillion > Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 11:40 PM > To: 'David Prall'; ccielab@groupstudy.com > Subject: RE: A Walk Down GS Memory Lane > > Hi David! > > You know I purged all of my old study material a year or so > back, but I > think maybe IPX and Apple Talk *were* still a very obscure part of the > associate tracks in '01. I don't recall their being a big > part of the exams > at all, but I do think they still got at least passing > mention in most of > the study books of the day. Token ring also got mention too, > but I don't > think as a test subject so much as a footnote. FDDI was > probably as close > to a LAN/MAN ring topology as I ever came in the real world > (sometime back > probably in the mid 90s). > > As for Chaos and Pup, they sound like rather exotic breeds to me... > > Cheers, > > Scott > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Prall [mailto:dcp@dcptech.com] > Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 9:28 PM > To: 'Scott M Vermillion'; ccielab@groupstudy.com > Subject: RE: A Walk Down GS Memory Lane > > I had Token Ring, it was just before the 3920 was a > requirement. IPX and > AppleTalk were around. DEC had just been removed. I knew more > about these > protocols then IP at the time. I wasn't bad with IP to say > the least, just a > lot more hands on with the others. I've also played with > Apollo and Banyan > Vines in the real world. Chaos and Pup just to see if I could > configure > them. > > David > > -- > http://dcp.dcptech.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On > > Behalf Of Scott M Vermillion > > Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 11:04 PM > > To: ccielab@groupstudy.com > > Subject: OT: A Walk Down GS Memory Lane > > > > LOL, I was given some pretty good suggestions for searching > > GS sans a GS > > search function. One thing that I stumbled across that > > really tickled me > > was this: > > > > > > > > http://www.groupstudy.com/notes/ > > > > > > > > I've been around these parts (the non-CCIE parts, that is) > > since circa 2001 > > but I can't honestly claim to remember DEC, IPX, and Token > > Ring RIF as ever > > being hot topics (I couldn't help but note that the RIF section was > > "updated" in '99, LOL). I'm not sure exactly why, but this > > strikes me as a > > lot like looking at a photo from the seventies or maybe > > eighties.thought I > > would share. > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > _________ > > Subscription information may be found at: > > http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > _________ > Subscription information may be found at: > http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
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