From: Guyler, Rik (rguyler@shp-dayton.org)
Date: Mon Oct 29 2007 - 09:46:14 ART
Yessss...I remember Rossi's paper. Probably the most popular TR reference
going at the time.
My first real lab was heavily invested in 2500s and 5500s. Now it's all
pretty much door stops.
Rik
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Gary
Duncanson
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 6:59 AM
To: Scott M Vermillion
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com; David Prall
Subject: Re: A Walk Down GS Memory Lane
And I thought nostalgia was a British disease :)
I remember RIFs and reading Lou Rossi's paper. It was on my written in 2001.
There is still plenty of old stuff in production. I saw a systems still
running Decnet late last year sometime. When I first took an interest in the
CCIE pretty much all the older technologies were still on. By the time I
started preparing for the lab DLSW+, token ring and IPX were still on as was
CatOS, ISDN, ATM and Voice. AppleTalk and Decnet was gone and the 3550's
were on their way in anytime soon.
Then I took a break and now Im back on with lab prep much has changed. Those
were heady days back then with the mystery of the lab and the scarcity of
equipment. I still keep books and notes concerning the older things as one
never knows what one can find lurking in the field.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott M Vermillion" <scott@it-ag.com>
To: "'David Prall'" <dcp@dcptech.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 3:39 AM
Subject: RE: A Walk Down GS Memory Lane
> Hi David!
>
> You know I purged all of my old study material a year or so back, but I
> think maybe IPX and Apple Talk *were* still a very obscure part of the
> associate tracks in '01. I don't recall their being a big part of the
> exams
> at all, but I do think they still got at least passing mention in most of
> the study books of the day. Token ring also got mention too, but I don't
> think as a test subject so much as a footnote. FDDI was probably as close
> to a LAN/MAN ring topology as I ever came in the real world (sometime back
> probably in the mid 90s).
>
> As for Chaos and Pup, they sound like rather exotic breeds to me...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Scott
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Prall [mailto:dcp@dcptech.com]
> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 9:28 PM
> To: 'Scott M Vermillion'; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: A Walk Down GS Memory Lane
>
> I had Token Ring, it was just before the 3920 was a requirement. IPX and
> AppleTalk were around. DEC had just been removed. I knew more about these
> protocols then IP at the time. I wasn't bad with IP to say the least, just
> a
> lot more hands on with the others. I've also played with Apollo and Banyan
> Vines in the real world. Chaos and Pup just to see if I could configure
> them.
>
> David
>
> --
> http://dcp.dcptech.com
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On
>> Behalf Of Scott M Vermillion
>> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 11:04 PM
>> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>> Subject: OT: A Walk Down GS Memory Lane
>>
>> LOL, I was given some pretty good suggestions for searching
>> GS sans a GS
>> search function. One thing that I stumbled across that
>> really tickled me
>> was this:
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.groupstudy.com/notes/
>>
>>
>>
>> I've been around these parts (the non-CCIE parts, that is)
>> since circa 2001
>> but I can't honestly claim to remember DEC, IPX, and Token
>> Ring RIF as ever
>> being hot topics (I couldn't help but note that the RIF section was
>> "updated" in '99, LOL). I'm not sure exactly why, but this
>> strikes me as a
>> lot like looking at a photo from the seventies or maybe
>> eighties.thought I
>> would share.
>>
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