Archive for July, 2008

No Joke!

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

1% for CPU utilization? No Joke!

autostart = false
model = 3640

[localhost]

[[3640]]
image = c:\Users\dsudjima\Study\ios_dynamips\c3640-js-mz.124-19b.bin.image
workingdir = c:\Users\dsudjima\Study\dynamips_lab\rpvst\

ram = 128
slot0 = NM-1FE-TX
slot1 = NM-16ESW
slot2 = NM-16ESW

idlepc = 0×604f8144

Running on Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz 2GB RAM on Windows Vista 32-bit.

Using ip ospf area Command.

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Command ip ospf area can be used to simplify the configuration. The idea is that you don’t need to enable network area command yet you only need to explicitly enable ip ospf area per-interface basis and by this command your point-to-point network will be automatically advertised.
Let’s look at this example below.

rtr1 directly [...]

Thou Shalt Use Auto-Negotiation!

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

During my time supporting a customer with big LAN contains hundreds of switches I’ve been told to hard set speed/duplex for each interface to reduce errors. Apparently this is not necessarily true. Hard-setting the speed/duplex won’t make the error go away.
Most internal LAN (access layer) has 10/100 and most of the problem often lies on [...]

And The Journey Begin…

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Today, I’m marking my day to start my CCIE journey. I will try to finish my written this year and head up for the lab next year.
My plan is quite simple, finish reading several books recommended by Cisco Press then do the written. Actually, I’m not even sure that I can finish all of those [...]