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AfNOG 2008 Workshop on Network Technology

Track SI-E — Scalable Network Infrastructure

Afrinic Policy Documents
Afrinic WhoIS
RFC1918 — allocation of private IP address space
RFC1930 — guidelines for creation of an autonomous system (including allocation of private AS numbers)

RFC2791 — a document which describes best practices for making routing protocols scale
RFC2182 — an operational guide to selection and operation of secondary DNS servers
10/100 Half/full duplex autonegotation — hints from Cisco
comp.dcom.cabling FAQ — Description of various cablings
Managing IP Networks with Free Software — Presentation in PDF by Joe Abley and Stephen Stuart
www.traceroute.org — Pointers to remote diagnostic tools
NOC Contact List — contact list for NOCs around the world by Jared Mauch

Cisco password recovery procedures (This is a local copy — check the Cisco web site for updates.)
Cisco router password recovery for 1600, 1700, 2500, 3600 & Catalyst 1900, 2900 & 3500 Switch (This is a local copy — check the Cisco web site for updates.)
IOS Essentials (PDF) – Philip Smith & Barry Greene IOS Document (rather dated now).
Cisco Express Forwarding — this is a local copy; please check the Cisco web site for updates.)
RFC2281 — Cisco Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP). Compare with RFC2338 — Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)

RIPE RIS Looking Glass — a looking glass to see how your route is being announced on BGP
RIPE 399 — RIPE Routing Working Group Aggregation recommendations.
The Bogon Reference — BGP Bogon Filters

IRRToolSet (formerly RAToolSet) — tools for routing policy analysis (including RtConfig, which can generate router configurations from a policy description language).
WREQ — a distributed request/problem tracking system
Rancid — a tool for monitoring and maintaining router configurations and keeping them in CVS
RT (Request Tracker) — a tool to manage a trouble-ticketing system
MRTG Monitoring Software — a tool to graph multiple network statistics e.g. bandwidth, temperature, mail flow, e.t.c.
Cacti Monitoring Software — the complete RDD based grahing tool
NfSen — a graphical web based front end for the nfdump netflow tools
Network Discovery Software — a tool to automatically discover and manage your own network

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