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Cooking with Cisco

by Derrick Story
Network Newsletter for 08/19/2003

Dear Reader,

Network administrators will be the first to tell you there are a variety of ways to solve any given Cisco-related problem, and that some approaches are more effective than others. The trick is finding the best solution for a particular problem.

O'Reilly author, Kevin Dooley, coauthor of "Cisco Cookbook," has gathered together hundreds of sample router configurations so you can find the best one to solve your problem, and he includes detailed instructions on how to implement each one.

In his recent article, "Cooking with Cisco, Part 1," Kevin provides a recipe to implement a feature called "Frame-Relay Traffic Shaping" to ensure that the router doesn't overrun the capacity of the individual permanent virtual circuits (PVCs) in a frame relay wide area network (WAN). He also includes a script to automatically scan and analyze your log files.

This is just one of the recipes he's selected from among hundreds that are included in the "Cisco Cookbook" (900 pages!). If you find the Frame Relay Traffic Shaping article helpful, you might want to take a look at the entire book.

Until next week,

-Derrick

Derrick Story
O'Reilly Network Managing Editor

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