Re: Why doesn't BGP...

["Paul G. Donner" <pdonner () cisco com>]

There's also an OSPF study guide available if anyone is interested.  That
takes care of two of the protocols.


At 09:48 PM 11/9/96 GMT, Dean Gaudet wrote:
> In article
<hot.mailing-lists.nanog-Pine.ULT.3.95.961109093416.14900C-100000 () halcyon ha
lcyon.com>,
> Ed Morin  <edm () halcyon com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Neil J. McRae wrote:
> >
> > > Try reading the manual. How is the router supposed to know what
> >
> > Well, until _somebody_ writes the definitive "Nutshell" book we
> > all know just how useful the "FM" is to "RT".
>
> I personally have found the information on the website/cdrom to be very
> complete.  The case studies proved invaluable while I was learning various
> things.  The BGP case study is incredible -- if you read it after reading
> a theoretical text on BGP then you'll be set for configuring networks with
> a small number of borders.  There's a draft somewhere too that talks about
> common bgp configurations.
>
> Granted it probably takes several hours of using the manuals before
> you get a feel for how they're laid out and where to go for things.
> That layout changes between 11.0 and 11.1 which can be annoying.  But
> it's very complete.  I've only ever dealt with ip, atalk and bridging
> however, maybe the experience in the other protocols is different.
>
> Do you honestly believe that a book with "nutshell" in the title is
> going to be more definitive than the CDROM documentation?  It would
> weight twenty pounds.  And also on this nutshell thread -- I think that
> people may be wishing for "IOS IP configuration in a nutshell".  There's
> no way a single book could do justice to all the protocols IOS deals with.
>
> Dean

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