Re: [Misc][Rant] Internet router (straying slightly OT)

[Mark Owen]

On 9/29/05, Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote:
> I have met "Senior Network Engineers" who don't understand longest
> match rule ("The traffic will take 10/8 instead of 10.0.0.0/24
> because it has a better admin distance", "I can override these 300
> OSPF routes with a single static supernet", etc), who believe that
> routers will not route between directly connected interfaces without
> putting them into a routing protocol, that transit networks don't
> need a full mesh of iBGP[1] because "you can just redistribute BGP
> into [OSPF/IS-IS/IGP of choice], that ICMP uses TCP as a transport,
> etc.

In a similar note, I Do care about networks and the like but fail to
fully understand the extensive details of how it all works.  I do not
proclaim myself to be an engineer and try to stick with what I do
well.  I read rfc, wikipedia, etc but just don't know what /to/ read. 
I had never heard of iBGP, OSPF, IS-IS untill today.  What I need, and
I'm sure quite a few others who listen to this list for insight, is a
good reference to pick up and read that will cover said topics and
beyond.  I finally got the basic concept to CIDRs and how they work
thanks to this list and Google.

I know this message is slightly off topic from NANOG, but kinda fits
in response to parent and am hoping not to get flamed.

Any suggestions?


A Padawan,
Mark Owen