2/25    What is the smallest (physical and price) cisco router that can
        handle BGP?  It should be able to have more than 256 ram.
        \_ When you say ``handle BGP'', do you mean supports the bgp
           protocol or supports enough ram to keep a reasonable (what do you
           consider to be reasonable) number of routes in memory?  Do you want
           to be peering at PAIX, or do you just need a router to run the T1
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9/19    I'm looking for a simple but good load balancing appliance to sit
        in front of two boxes for the purposes of redundancy.  Load Balancing
        isn't really required, I just want the device to send traffic to
        the secondary box iff the first server goes down. Recommendations?
        \_ An OpenBSD 3.5 box running pf + carp can do this. If you don't
           want to use OpenBSD you can try ucarp: http://www.ucarp.org
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8/24    To those with Cisco/router fu:
        My co-worker walked over and asked me what the "set default interface"
        command does if you don't specify a next-hop IP address.  I said
        you always need a next-hop IP address, unless you expect the
        destination IP address in the IP header to be on the directly connected
        network.  He said it will broadcast on that interface.  I'm googling
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8/26    I've ended up with two dsl lines at my house till the
        end of the year or so. I would like to run some sort
        of routing protocol so that I can maximize my bandwidth
        by using both lines. I'm not sure how to go about setting
        this up, any pointers/ideas? I'm running *bsd if that
        makes a difference. tia.
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4/14    Is there any point to ARP in a pure switched environment?
        \_ If by purely switched you mean you have the ability to send/
           receive raw ethernet frames and not use the IP stack, then yes,
           there is no need for ARP.
           \_ I mean when you are in a switched rather than shared
              ethernet and everything is going down the wire to the
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7/9     ETA on finding out what the new IP will be?
        \_ why are they changing soda's address again?
           \_ because we're moving to linux.
              \_ cute.
        \_ first EECS got rid of shared 10mbit ethernet networks and
           consolidated those into 100mbit switched networks.  Now,
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6/3     Network Newbie here. I am now collecting data on my T1 lines and also
        my LAN traffic. A couple lines are sustaining 300kbps even at 5AM...
        I'm suspecting that this is streaming audio or some rogue host
        downloading several gigs of data. Actually, usage goes UP from 10PM-3AM
        Is there any way (on a Cisco box) to split up traffic monitoring
        by TCP/UDP port?
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5/7     Do people actually run DHCP off of routers? What sounds worse, using
        routers or NT boxes?
        \_ routers have less virii..  i'd feel much more comfortable running
                             \_ you misspelled "viruses"
                                \_ and it's "fewer viruses," not "less
                                   viruses" (while we're being pedantic).
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4/24    Say you and your buddy have broadband and want to setup VPN so that
        you can access each other's resource. How do you setup VPN?
                                        -VPN clueless
        \_ http://www.cisco.com has some good introductory docs on how VPNs work.
           If you're interested in technical details, have a look at RFCs
           2401-2410, IPSEC.  For Linux, FreeS/WAN and under FreeBSD, KAME
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3/20    I need to cram for a test on managing Cisco routers. Cisco Certified
        type stuff. Anyone have a reference (online or book)?
        \_ I am also looking into this.  I got the O`Reilly "IP Routing"
           as a starter book, but that's likely too general for your needs.
           I don't know if it's good since I haven't read it.
           \_ I took EECS 122 and CS 162. I am familiar with IP Routing and
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12/19   Has anyone ever heard of "MAC multicasting?"  I can only find vague
        references to it;  it's not the "fake" ethernet addresses reserved
        for class D IP addresses.  Apparently Baydel and a few other
        products/applications use it for various kinds of clustering.  I'd
        be grateful for pointers to any documentation.  -John
        \_ you're badly confusing IP addresses and end ethernet MAC addresses.
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7/13    I have an offer from a company that does SCSI over fibre channel.
        I'm curious about the viability of this market.
        Who are the key players in this market?
        What competing technologies are there, and what are the relative
        advantages?
        \_ http://www.byteandswitch.com is a good SAN info site. SCSI over
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