[84980] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Misc][Rant] Internet router (straying slightly OT)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Owen)
Thu Sep 29 17:39:57 2005
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:39:30 -0400
From: Mark Owen <mr.markowen@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Mark Owen <mr.markowen@gmail.com>
To: Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 9/29/05, Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote:
> I have met "Senior Network Engineers" who don't understand longest
> match rule ("The traffic will take 10/8 instead of 10.0.0.0/24
> because it has a better admin distance", "I can override these 300
> OSPF routes with a single static supernet", etc), who believe that
> routers will not route between directly connected interfaces without
> putting them into a routing protocol, that transit networks don't
> need a full mesh of iBGP[1] because "you can just redistribute BGP
> into [OSPF/IS-IS/IGP of choice], that ICMP uses TCP as a transport,
> etc.
In a similar note, I Do care about networks and the like but fail to
fully understand the extensive details of how it all works. I do not
proclaim myself to be an engineer and try to stick with what I do
well. I read rfc, wikipedia, etc but just don't know what /to/ read.=20
I had never heard of iBGP, OSPF, IS-IS untill today. What I need, and
I'm sure quite a few others who listen to this list for insight, is a
good reference to pick up and read that will cover said topics and
beyond. I finally got the basic concept to CIDRs and how they work
thanks to this list and Google.
I know this message is slightly off topic from NANOG, but kinda fits
in response to parent and am hoping not to get flamed.
Any suggestions?
A Padawan,
Mark Owen
