[6063] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why doesn't BGP...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul G. Donner)
Sat Nov 9 18:43:47 1996
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 18:19:17 -0800
To: dgaudet@plebe.com (Dean Gaudet), nanog@merit.edu
From: "Paul G. Donner" <pdonner@cisco.com>
There's also an OSPF study guide available if anyone is interested. That
takes care of two of the protocols.
At 09:48 PM 11/9/96 GMT, Dean Gaudet wrote:
>In article
<hot.mailing-lists.nanog-Pine.ULT.3.95.961109093416.14900C-100000@halcyon.ha
lcyon.com>,
>Ed Morin <edm@halcyon.com> wrote:
>>On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Neil J. McRae wrote:
>>
>>> Try reading the manual. How is the router supposed to know what
>>
>>Well, until _somebody_ writes the definitive "Nutshell" book we
>>all know just how useful the "FM" is to "RT".
>
>I personally have found the information on the website/cdrom to be very
>complete. The case studies proved invaluable while I was learning various
>things. The BGP case study is incredible -- if you read it after reading
>a theoretical text on BGP then you'll be set for configuring networks with
>a small number of borders. There's a draft somewhere too that talks about
>common bgp configurations.
>
>Granted it probably takes several hours of using the manuals before
>you get a feel for how they're laid out and where to go for things.
>That layout changes between 11.0 and 11.1 which can be annoying. But
>it's very complete. I've only ever dealt with ip, atalk and bridging
>however, maybe the experience in the other protocols is different.
>
>Do you honestly believe that a book with "nutshell" in the title is
>going to be more definitive than the CDROM documentation? It would
>weight twenty pounds. And also on this nutshell thread -- I think that
>people may be wishing for "IOS IP configuration in a nutshell". There's
>no way a single book could do justice to all the protocols IOS deals with.
>
>Dean
>
>
