From: Gary Duncanson (gary.duncanson@googlemail.com)
Date: Sun Oct 28 2007 - 07:59:20 ART
And I thought nostalgia was a British disease :)
I remember RIFs and reading Lou Rossi's paper. It was on my written in 2001.
There is still plenty of old stuff in production. I saw a systems still
running Decnet late last year sometime. When I first took an interest in the
CCIE pretty much all the older technologies were still on. By the time I
started preparing for the lab DLSW+, token ring and IPX were still on as was
CatOS, ISDN, ATM and Voice. AppleTalk and Decnet was gone and the 3550's
were on their way in anytime soon.
Then I took a break and now Im back on with lab prep much has changed. Those
were heady days back then with the mystery of the lab and the scarcity of
equipment. I still keep books and notes concerning the older things as one
never knows what one can find lurking in the field.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott M Vermillion" <scott@it-ag.com>
To: "'David Prall'" <dcp@dcptech.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 3:39 AM
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.
>>
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