Common operational misconceptions
Joel jaeggli
joelja at bogus.com
Thu Feb 16 05:57:35 UTC 2012
On 2/15/12 21:04 , Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D. wrote:
> How widespread would you say the use of IS-IS is?
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> Even more as to which routing protocols are used, not just in ISPs, what
> percent would you give to the various ones. In other words X percent of
> organizations use OSPS, Y percent use EIGRP, and so on.
Using EIGRP implies your routed IGP dependent infrastructure is a
monoculture. That's probably infeasible without compromise even if you
are largely a Cisco shop.
ISIS is used in organizations other than ISPs.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Antti Ristimäki [mailto:antti.ristimaki at gmx.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 10:47 PM
> To: John Kristoff
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Common operational misconceptions
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> "IS-IS is a legacy protocol that nobody uses"
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> 15.02.2012 22:47, John Kristoff kirjoitti:
>> Hi friends,
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>> As some of you may know, I occasionally teach networking to college
>> students and I frequently encounter misconceptions about some aspect
>> of networking that can take a fair amount of effort to correct.
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>> For instance, a topic that has come up on this list before is how the
>> inappropriate use of classful terminology is rampant among students,
>> books and often other teachers. Furthermore, the terminology isn't
>> even always used correctly in the original context of classful addressing.
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>> I have a handful of common misconceptions that I'd put on a top 10
>> list, but I'd like to solicit from this community what it considers to
>> be the most annoying and common operational misconceptions future
>> operators often come at you with.
>>
>> I'd prefer replies off-list and can summarize back to the list if
>> there is interest.
>>
>> John
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