Shailesh Narayan

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Pursuing MS in CS at University of Southern California.


Past Work:

CSCI-571: Web Technologies

  1. HTML, CSS example
  2. DOM, XML and JQuery example
  3. Perl CGI example (this might/might not work)
  4. XSLT example

CSCI-555: Advanced Operating System

  1. Comparison between Message Passing(MP) and Remote Procedure Call(RPC)
  2. Relationship between Naming and Security
  3. File Consistency in NFS, Sprite, AFS-2, CODA, and Google File System(GFS)
  4. Processor Allocation Approaches in Scheduler Activation, Mach and Prospero Resource Manager.
  5. List of Papers I have gone through as part of this course.

CSCI-558: Internetworking and Distributed Systems Laboratory

EE-450: Computer Networks

Links

  1. VLANs and Trunking
  2. Configurinig VLANs
  3. Network Virtualization
  4. How to share internet access among VLANs
  5. List of General Networking Articles
  6. A very nice mailing thread on Routers vs. Layer 3 Switch
  7. Netflow Performance Analysis
  8. Cisco Tool: An SNMP Object Navigator
  9. Introduction to Cisco IOS NetFlow - A Technical Overview
  10. IEEE 802.1Q, or VLAN Tagging
  11. How Stuff Works: VLAN Switching
  12. A nice homework: Build your own ISP. A nice OSPF, BGP and Quagga hands-on tutorial by Prof. Mathew Caesar. If the file is removed, use this local copy
  13. The Internet Encyclopedia: Excellent site to spend time reading internet RFCs and other technical documents.
  14. Building MPLS-Based Broadband Access VPNs (A very nice book, I have to read it)
  15. A nice tutorial on how to configure RIP, OSPF, IGRP, BGP, if the original copy is removed, use this local copy.
  16. BGP: Two very interesting links: PPT and Case study
  17. A nice thread explaning the OSPF process ID.
  18. A nice discussion on VLANs and MPLS VPN
  19. A nice small article on ping results while debugging network issues.
  20. A nice thread explaning the iBGP synchronization, routers running only IGP etc.
  21. A nice presentation on BGP Best practices.
  22. RFC4577 - OSPF as the Provider/Customer Edge Protocol for BGP/M
  23. A nice thread on capability vrf-lite
  24. A really nice explanation of MPLS, how it works by Dr. Peter J. Welcher, click here in case the original document is removed.

Interesting Terms

  1. VLANs and Trunking ---> VLAN: Virtual LAN, VTP: VLAN Trunking Protocol, vlan database, vtp domain, vlan-id, spanningtree macreduction, Static VLAN, Dynamic VLAN, VTP database file, VMPS: VLAN Management Policy Server, RCP: Remote Copy Protocol Server, Trunking, ISL or IEEE 802.1Q, DTP: Dynamic Trunking Protocol, VTP Pruning, GARP: Generic Attribute Registration Protocol, GVRP: GARP VLAN Registration Protocol or Generic VLAN Registration Protocol,
  2. IEEE 802.1Q, or VLAN Tagging ---> IEEE 802.1D spanning tree protocol, Edge switches, snooped, 802.1Q header, Double Tagging or QinQ, 802.1ad, Tripple Tagging

My Stuff

  1. A deterlab setup with 3 routers and few nodes and running OSPF (Quagga) among them. You can see the setup details here and download Combined Pcap Dump file
  2. An attempt to run GNS3 along with VPCS. You can see some tips here
  3. An introduction to RIP
  4. An introduction to OSPF
  5. An introduction to BGP
  6. An introduction to VLAN and Trunking

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