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From: Bob Albrightson <albright@lager.cisco.com>
Subject: Re: IGS 9.0(1) HELLLLP!!!
Date: 23 Nov 92 9:06:38 PST
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> I have 2 routers connected by ethernet.  One (a 3-COM) connects me
> to the internet.  The other (the Cisco) is managing our routing to
> an X.25 network.  If I login in to the Cisco and try to ping
> the 3-COM, it chokes.  What's the deal here?
> I've tried a default route on the Cisco that points as:
> 0.0.0.0 158.68.31.254.  No go.  I tried taking it out.
> No go.
> The bottom line is that our X.25 clients can't get any further
> than our Campus LAN as the Cisco isn't connecting to the other
> router to get the caller to his internet target.
> The two routers are on the same physical and logical network.
> The cisco: 158.68.31.253, the 3-COM: 158.68.31.254.  There's
> gotta be a way to get packets from one to the other!

Have you looked at the cisco to see if an arp entry is being built for
158.68.31.254?  Have you looked at the 3com to see if an arp entry is
being build for 158.68.31.253?  Can anything else on that logical
network (subnet 31 I presume) talk to the 3com?  Have you looked to
see if the 3com is even receiving the packets the cisco is sending?

 -bob
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
From: William "Chops" Westfield <billw@regal.cisco.com>
Subject: Re: Modem & SL/IP
Date: 16 Nov 92 16:38:04 PST
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The AUX port on routers does not support and modem control, so we
don't know when the line has been hung up.  This is clearly documented
in the section that describes the aux port, but we forgot to remove the
comment about slip getting turned off when the modem hangs up from the
section on SLIP.
 
You might be able to use a session-timeout on the aux port to get it
to revert to normal behavior after a few minutes of SLIP inactivity.

Bill Westfield
cisco Systems.
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
From: vasco@jessica.bvl.pt (Antonio Vasconcelos)
Subject: Is a Cisco pt/router (IGS-68020) an Host ? 
Reply-To: vasco@jessica.bvl.pt (Antonio Vasconcelos)
Organization: Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa 
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:29:40 GMT

We have 4 IGS conected between x.25 pads and our tcp/ip
LAN.
All the IGS have entries on /etc/hosts and I can telnet
to everyone of them.
However, when I execute the ruptime or rwho commands I see
no trace of the IGS.
The possible use of this commands will let us check who is
comming throug pt A, B, C, or D from some shell scripts.

Is there any way to make IGSs replay to this commands ???

Thanks in advance...



regards,

|/asco

Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
From: SYSNET@engvax.picker.com (Leonard A. Visconti)
Subject: Variable subnet masks
Organization: PICKER INTERNATIONAL
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:02:51 GMT
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Our main site uses an AGS+ to supply internal subnets as well as link 
to IGS routers at our remote facilities. Until yesterday all subnets used 
an 8 bit subnet mask. Now we have one site that changed all systems at the 
facility to use a 5 bit subnet. From that point things began to work strangely; 
how suprising. 

Neither the AGS+ nor IGS firmware supports variable length subnet masks. Are
there any solutions to this problem other than changing back to an 8 bit mask
or buying new firmware?

It is my understanding that the new firmware supports variable masks only
with OSPF. Is this true, and if so, should I expect any problems using OSPF 
and RIP together? 

....appreciate any help on this. Thanks.


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From: slin@cisco.com (Steven Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: bridging->routing AppleTalk, FastPaths
Date: 22 Nov 92 21:47:48 GMT
Followup-To: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Organization: cisco Systems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: regal.cisco.com
In-reply-to: wrl@wdl1.wdl.loral.com's message of 20 Nov 92 18:10:54 GMT

In article <wrl-201192100322@irm124.wdl.loral.com> wrl@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (Bill Lewandowski) writes:

   In article <1ej4dqINNavg@barnard.usc.edu>, siemsen@barnard.usc.edu (Pete
   Siemsen) wrote:

[stuff about converting from bridging to routing]

   Only problems we had was that we entered all the information correctly in
   to the cisco config file but made mistakes in the other routers. If you
   have a zone called "WDL B260-3R" on the Cisco and "WDL b260-3R" on another
   router, big problems. Case and spelling of zones must be exact.

According to Inside AppleTalk, case is insignificant.  Cisco routers
follow this convention, but it's possible that other manufacturers do
not.  If so, then it should be considered a bug.

[mount soapbox]

As an aside, the zone name "WDL B260-3R" seems a little vague,
although I may be completely wrong (i.e. "WDL B260-3R" may be
perfectly clear to users).  Nevertheless, zone names should generally
be chosen for the benefit of users of the network, not the
administrators.  Zone names should especially not be based on the
topology of the network.  For example, "Ethernet zone 1" is a bad
choice.  What happens if the topology changes?  Zone names will have
to change, too.  Zone names should be selected along organizational or
functional lines.  "Engineering," "Finance," and "MIS" are some
examples.  Easily understood zone names facilitates the location of
network services and devices by users.

[dismount soapbox]

Hope this helps.

Steve
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
From: Bob Albrightson <albright@lager.cisco.com>
Subject: Re: IGRP and RIP / redistributing tables
Date: 23 Nov 92 8:38:46 PST
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Please send the configuration for each box in question.  Also send
along the output of 'show ip route' from each box as well.  -thanks.

 -bob
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
From: Tony Li <tli@cisco.com>
Subject: Variable subnet masks
Date: 20 Nov 92 07:33:02 -0800
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Peter,

This sounds like bug CSCdi06856, which was fixed in 9.1(0.19).

Your workaround is a better configuration anyhow, as it avoids relying
on proxy arp.

Tony
From: jseto@zeus.calpoly.edu (John the Fisherman)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Modem on cisco Router console
Summary: Modems attached to console port do not work right.
Date: 20 Nov 92 20:25:57 GMT
Organization: Cal Poly - SLO: Network Admin.

I am in search of any information regarding asynchronous modems attached
to the console port of cisco Systems AGS+ routers.  Our campus has 5
AGS+ routers and we want to attach a modem to each one.  We have tried
attaching Ventel 9600 Plus modems (ROM revision 6.xx) but we have not
been successful in getting them to work.  As a test case, we had an
older version of the same model modem (ROM revision 4.43) and it works
just fine.  I have been trying to get these modems to work for over 3
weeks now and would like to know if anyone else has gotten it to work
with the newer Ventel 9600 Plus modems.  If anyone has gotten it to work
with other modems, please mail me the vendor's name and any significant
information.

Thanks in Advance,
Chuck 

-- 
John "Chuck" Seto           | OS/2:  The Integrating Platform!!!! | Now seeking
Network/Computer Technician | ----------------------------------- | career....
Network Administration      | All opinions are my own and do not  | Ask for
Cal Poly - SLO              | reflect those of my employer.       | resume
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
From: cjw@nersc.gov (Cathy Wittbrodt)
Subject: Re: How to interrupt
Date: 23 Nov 92 15:50:34 PST
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        > cc-tip>mistake
        > Translating "MISTAKE"...domain server (128.135.12.73)...name server
        > (128.135.12.73) (128.135.4.2)
        > % Unknown command or computer name, or unable to find computer address
    
        If you're on a physical terminal line you can interrupt with the
        terminal escape character, which defaults to ^^ (control-caret, or
        control-shift-six on most keyboards).
    
    If you are on a router, and actually making outbound connections is rare,
    you can configure your lines with "transport preferred none", in which case
    you MUST say "telnet host" to make a connection.
    
    Bill Westfield
    cisco Systems.

If you use the "no ip ip-name" command in your config, then
this won't be a problem and you won't have to use the transport
preferred none.  (Personally I have gotten used to not having
to type telnet and I like it that way.)  Apparently in non-9.0 
versions this was the default (no ip ip-name) and now in 9.0 it
isn't anymore.   (there is a description in the manual under this
command)

I found this problem to be a pain too because I always type the
popular command, shint  :-)

Hope that this helps!

---Cathy
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

	Cathy Wittbrodt
	Network Special Projects Group
        National Energy Research Supercomputer Center
        Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
        cjw@nersc.gov
        PHONE: 510-422-4016
        FAX: 510-422-0435
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
From: "Dean Ter Haar"  <DEAN@legacy.calvin.edu>
Subject: Banner displays on 8.3(5) incoming connections
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Date: 17 Nov 92 11:25:24 EST
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We recently received a ROM upgrade from 8.0(13) to 8.3(5) for our ASM CSC/2
Terminal Servers.  The new release displays the terminal server banner
whenever an incoming connection is made to a particular port of the terminal
server.  This includes connections to printers, dial-out modems, etc.

Is there any way to turn off the 'activation' banner for incoming
connections?  I tried using 'no banner,' but since it is a global
command it affects all ports of the terminal server instead of a specific
line.

The upgrade version is TS Software (TS2-R), Version 8.3(5)[fc3] SOFTWARE.

Also, is it possible to get the "Terminal Server Configuration and
Reference" dated October 1991 to complete my documentation of 8.3(5)?

Thanks,
-dean
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Computer Technician, Data Communications Specialist

Computer Center                             Ma Bell: (616) 957-6144
Calvin College                              Fax:     (616) 957-8551
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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
From: NVBMG01@nt.com (Brad (B.M.) Glidewell)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: re:IGS 9.0(1) HELLLLP!!!
Date: 23 Nov 92 11:14:00 GMT
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What routing protocol is being used? (each router)
Brad
From: cdr@sachiko.acc.stolaf.edu (Craig D. Rice, St. Olaf College)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: filtering by TCP/IP port
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:55:24 GMT
Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN


Greetings,

This question would probably be appropriate for a cisco FAQ if one existed,
but since I can't find one I will ask y'all for help!

Is there a way to filter TCP/IP packets by port number?  For example,
if we wanted to prevent sunrpc (port 111) packets from finding their way
out of our network, how would we do this?

Thanks for your help,
Craig
--
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cdr@stolaf.edu		Academic Computing Center, St. Olaf College
+1 507 646-3631		1520 St. Olaf Avenue
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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
From: Pasvorn Boonmark <boonmark@cisco.com>
Subject: cisco and DS3
Date: 15 Nov 92 17:45:49 -0800
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You need to have a DS3 CSU/DSU.  T3Plus and DigitalLink offered such a
product.  On cisco's side, you will need a HSSI interface.

-Pasvorn
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
From: jnford@argos.weeg.uiowa.edu (Jay Ford)
Subject: optical characteristics of cisco FDDI gear
Reply-To: Jay Ford <jay-ford@uiowa.edu>
Organization: Weeg Computing Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:21:08 GMT

I'd like to know the exact optical characteristics of cisco FDDI gear,
specifically:
	transmit launch power
	saturation point of receiver
I'd like this information for the multi-mode and single-mode case.  We have
some rather short runs of single-mode fiber which we might have to attenuate
depending on the characteristics listed above.

Also, it seems that the single-mode applique has a pair of FC connectors.  Is
this correct?


I sent a similar note to cisco directly, but I figured a second opinion would
be nice, and a response from someone with real experience would be reassuring.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jay Ford, Weeg Computing Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
jay-ford@uiowa.edu (or jnford@handlebar.weeg.uiowa.edu), 319-335-5555
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco,comp.protocols.ppp
From: ben@fizz.fdn.org (Benoit Grange)
Subject: Connect  Cisco and WellFleet routers via sync line
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:16:27 GMT

We have a new SYNC line (@ 64 Kb/s) and at one end our Wellfleet Link node  
router, at the other end a Cisco AGS+ router (owned by INRIA/Fnet).

We want to use PPP protocol between them (or is any other protocol usable  
?).

After connecting all, configuring (standard minimal config) and enabling  
what's needed our router reports frames sent (one frame of 28 bytes every  
few seconds) but nothing received... (not even a single byte). The link  
does not work.

The configuration seems to be correct on each side.

Please can you help (solutions, hints, flames for RTFM...)

Send mail to ben@fizz.fdn.org, I will summarize later.
-- 
----
Benoit Grange - PARIS - FRANCE

Mail to : ben@fizz.fdn.org (SMALL NeXTMails accepted, < 10kb)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
From: sjs6@quads.uchicago.edu (s jonathan silverman)
Subject: How to interrupt
Reply-To: sjs6@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:25:05 GMT

How do I interrupt cisco when I have inadvertently typed in an incorrect name.

Example:

cc-tip>mistake
Translating "MISTAKE"...domain server (128.135.12.73)...name server 
(128.135.12.73) (128.135.4.2)
% Unknown command or computer name, or unable to find computer address

Depending on how busy the system is and how many name servers are checked
this can take quite a while.

The usual suspects (control C, control D) don't seem to do anything.

Thanks for the help,

Jonathan Silverman

-- 
Jonathan Silverman

sjs6@quads.uchicago.edu
jonat@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco,comp.protocols.ppp
From: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no
Subject: Re: Connect  Cisco and WellFleet routers via sync line
Originator: he@ugle.unit.no
Organization: University of Trondheim, Norway
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 08:57:19 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.221627.1223@fizz.fdn.org> ben@fizz.fdn.org (Benoit Grange) writes:

> We have a new SYNC line (@ 64 Kb/s) and at one end our Wellfleet Link node
> router, at the other end a Cisco AGS+ router (owned by INRIA/Fnet).
>
> We want to use PPP protocol between them (or is any other protocol usable?).

Yes, point-to-point x.25 works.  Configure the cisco as an X25-DCE.
However, you may experience lower delays if you can get PPP to work.

> After connecting all, configuring (standard minimal config) and enabling
> what's needed our router reports frames sent (one frame of 28 bytes every
> few seconds) but nothing received... (not even a single byte). The link
> does not work.
>
> The configuration seems to be correct on each side.
>
> Please can you help (solutions, hints, flames for RTFM...)

First, you should turn off the Link Quality Monitoring, use of 32-bit CRC and
any other PPP-related options on the Wellfleet (I guess you have already done
that). Set ARP type to "None" in the IP interface definition.

A colleague of mine found out by experimenting the following little apparently
vital piece of information: on the Wellfleet you have to tell it explicitly
how it is going to reach the router at the other end of the serial link.
(Why? Don't ask me.)  This is done by defining a so-called "static adjacency",
which is a special form of a static route, like this:

                Static Routes
    Internet Address     Type
    ----------------     ----
 1. 158.36.127.1         Static Adjacency

Configuration Editor
Internet Address : 158.36.127.1
Type : Static Adjacency

DLCI  : WAN1IP

WAN1IP is the name of the circuit group for the PPP interface on the
Wellfleet router (the 158.36.127.1 is the IP address on the remote end).
This is not self-evident, and is not mentioned in the manual (this type of
static route is only mentioned in connection with Frame Relay).  Since this
is not documented, it may not be the "proper" way to do this, but it solved
our immediate problem (we have 5.74.2 software on this router -- actually a
HP-ER router).  So: no guarantee...


- Havard
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco,comp.protocols.ppp
From: bjork@telebit.com (Steven Bjork)
Subject: Re: Connect  Cisco and WellFleet routers via sync line
Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:29:56 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.221627.1223@fizz.fdn.org>,
 ben@fizz.fdn.org (Benoit Grange) writes:

>We have a new SYNC line (@ 64 Kb/s) and at one end our Wellfleet Link node  
>router, at the other end a Cisco AGS+ router (owned by INRIA/Fnet).

>After connecting all, configuring (standard minimal config) and enabling  
>what's needed our router reports frames sent (one frame of 28 bytes every  
>few seconds) but nothing received... (not even a single byte). The link  
>does not work.

If your DSU/CSU has loopback check, insure that they can put each other
into remote loopback. If this works, you have some assurance that your
physical sync line is ok. If this fails, check the wiring from the
point at which your telephone system provides access (demarc in USA
slang) to the DSU/CSU for errors. If the wiring looks good, call the
telephone service provider.

I know that a Telebit NetBlazer router works with a cisco or a WellFleet,
but I've never tried a cisco and a WellFleet together :).

--Steven
From: cah@pdx.csd.mot.com (Chris Huey)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: Netblazer vs CS-500, bang vs buck?
Date: 19 Nov 92 18:14:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: pdxvme.1409
Organization: Motorola, Beaverton, OR
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Aaron Nabil (nabil@ogicse.ogi.edu) wrote:
: 
: Since my inquiry re: CS-500 vs ASM perormance has simply set the newsgroup
: abuzz with followups, lemme try something else.
: 
: My company needs to pick a platform for async access to our network.  The
: choices are the Netblazer (cheap) vs the Cisco families (nice).  We need
: to make the right choice now, since we want to commit to a platform that
: we can be happy with over the next n years.  We're probably looking at
: about 160 ports over the next 2 years.
: 
[ ... ]
: 	
: Can anyone who has, or had, both give me some feedback?  I think it's
: noteworthy that Alternet is choosing Netblazers...
: 

We evaluated both of the above.  Cisco may not want to hear this but...

The NetBlazer came up and ran with no problems.  We used it as a terminal
server running both SLIP and PPP.  We have a special need, however: we
would like the NetBlazer to ignore the IP address coming in from the
Async port and use the IP address assigned to the port (an IP alias) for
all packets going out to the Ethernet interface.  Telebit took our request 
and we've heard nada from them.

Cisco came along and said "Sure.  We do that!".  So we tried out the 500-CS.
We had the device in house for about 3 weeks before we could get any use out
of it.  Configuration is about 1-2 orders of magnitude more complicated but 
once understood, is not too tough.  The IP alias feature did NOT work.  Cisco
said "Sorry" but we're still stuck.  Not only that but if you want to use
PPP, you must configure for different sub-nets (except for Async port 1 - go
figure.)  That's supposed to be fixed in release 9.2 (next year, sometime?).  
An async interface can only be SLIP or PPP encapsulation - to change it you 
must reconfigure the interface - which requires ENABLE mode (9.2 is supposed 
to allow you to change the encapsulation on the exec command line).  

This is not intended to be a slam on Cisco - I think they have a very complete
line of communications devices.  I just feel that the 500-CS is still an 
immature product.

-- 

Chris Huey                             Motorola Inc., Computer Systems Division
cah@pdx.csd.mot.com                    Voice: (503) 520-5215
"In the beginning was the word, 2 bytes long, aligned on an even boundary."
From: kph@cisco.com (Kevin Paul Herbert)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: XRemote on Comserver
Date: 24 Nov 1992 04:23:01 GMT
Organization: cisco Systems, Inc., Menlo Park, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cider.cisco.com

It depends on what widget set you are using, and how efficient its' I/O
is. For example, some toolkits appear to draw all of their menus into
off-screen pixmaps, and then do a simple copy to make the menu appear. This
will give "instant" response, as opposed to a toolkit which needs to output
the text each time the menu bar item is selected, which will appear much
slower.

I've noticed that the DECwindows and Motif toolkits are really good about their I/O. The Athena (Xaw) widgets are about the worst. I haven't used OpenLook over XRemote so I can't comment on how well that works.

Kevin
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco