wireless and wired...

great... i finally took the time to get my wired and wireless connections up simultaneously on this ubuntu box so i could have internet access and a hot connection for my lab...

3560-01#ping 10.1.1.99                                                         
                                                                               
Type escape sequence to abort.                                                 
Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 10.1.1.99, timeout is 2 seconds:             
!!!!!                                                                          
Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 1/2/9 ms   

arteq@bo:~$ ping 10.1.1.1
PING 10.1.1.1 (10.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_req=1 ttl=255 time=1.83 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_req=2 ttl=255 time=1.01 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_req=3 ttl=255 time=2.13 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_req=4 ttl=255 time=4.43 ms

the broadcom wireless adapter gave me a hard time, and the ethernet adapter would always take control once connected... i had to run updates and get the correct drivers for the broadcom...

arteq@bo:~$ ping www.cisco.com
PING e144.dscb.akamaiedge.net (23.64.240.170) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from a23-64-240-170.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (23.64.240.170): icmp_req=1 ttl=56 time=40.1 ms
64 bytes from a23-64-240-170.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (23.64.240.170): icmp_req=2 ttl=56 time=40.6 ms
64 bytes from a23-64-240-170.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (23.64.240.170): icmp_req=3 ttl=56 time=40.9 ms
64 bytes from a23-64-240-170.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (23.64.240.170): icmp_req=4 ttl=56 time=41.3 ms

arteq@bo:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr e8:40:f2:0e:de:63 
          inet addr:10.1.1.99  Bcast:10.1.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::ea40:f2ff:fe0e:de63/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:127 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:200 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:17562 (17.5 KB)  TX bytes:25168 (25.1 KB)
          Interrupt:43 Base address:0x8000

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 9c:b7:0d:9d:82:78 
          inet addr:192.168.1.8  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::9eb7:dff:fe9d:8278/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5606 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4391 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:4640098 (4.6 MB)  TX bytes:991035 (991.0 KB)

there is a setting in the network manager that makes the ethernet adapter only use it's own network resources, and not try to pig out on the wireless gateway...

now they cohabitate... i played around for some time with virtual adapters for the ethernet adapter but that was real pain in the ass... this is good...

i've also read that qinq on a 3550 leads to some difficulties as an l2 breakout switch(specifically one way cdp)... if that's the case then the choice will be a 3750 switch (known solution) or a gns server...

i'm still waiting on my other 3 3560's...

whatever the case, the idea of this ccie lab, as many have mentioned, is not to troubleshoot gns3 and the switches, but simply to get it stable and functioning correctly so the concentration is spent on the labs not the set up...

dia namic...

great stuff here from a friend in portugal, nuno, i met on cln...  he gave me a hand salvaging my xp environment and converting it to ubuntu...  and he pointed out  a network diagram creator, complete with cisco icons...

once you've installed ubuntu, go to the command line and type:

arteq@b:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install dia

and you can begin to make one of these....

tell nuno thanks...

unix...

in the early 90's, the age of windows 3.1, my entree into the unix world began with system V, berkeley and SCO... that was just prior to dos5.0...  i learned then that i was an operating system kind of guy and that i was very comfortable at the command line... but gui was fashionable, windows was dominating, and although os2 was a better product, it couldn't muster the market share or the application support...

of course torvalds came along and began to change everything... unix on the desktop for the masses and free... he took the minix kernel and made it into linux and gave it away.. brilliant...

so along with the windows progression from 3.1 to 95,98,2000,xp, vista, 7, i also grew with redhat, suse,
fedora, and now my new best friend ubuntu...

last night i really had to dust off the old commands and permissions, and what i know is:  microsoft's greatest product was xp, and when they retired it, they forever ruined windows...

if only corporate america would come to grips with open source on the desktop across the board... it's time to finally slay the dragon...

ubuntu...

this morning my xp machine wouldn't boot... couldn't get past the windows logo, it just kept rebooting... no safe mode, no recovery and it's so old, i didn't have a recovery disk...  all kinds of stuff, notes, pdf's, so much, i thought was completely lost....

i downloaded ubuntu, burned it to a dvd and booted to it... and my xp files are intact...

whoa...

near miss that one...

thank you ubuntu... i am in...