From: Sheryl Chapin <schapin@ctel.net>

So if anyone has any advice, caveats, pointers to docs, things I absolutely should do or things I absolutely shouldn't do, I would be EXTREMELY grateful.

Sheryl, I recently went through the same learning experience and found the following document very helpful when combined with the references you already listed: Internet Routing Architectures Bassam Halabi Cisco Press/New Riders Publishing Besides applied theory, it contains practical approaches to solving various realistic problems including the whys, the alternate solutions, and related Cisco IOS commands. My copy doesn't have an ISBN number. I think I got it from www.amazon.com (but it may have been Borders). It helped me a lot in making our previous T1 link a backup to our new primary DS3 link. Its worked twice although I think there are still some problems because the BGP table revision keeps incrementing. Nobody's complained of any flaps though. (anyone can take this as an open invitation to complain or suggest fixes <GRIN>) AS 10357 Gary Flynn Network Analyst James Madison University