[149751] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Common operational misconceptions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (-Hammer-)
Wed Feb 15 15:59:00 2012
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:57:58 -0600
From: -Hammer- <bhmccie@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20120215144715.18e65a55@w520.localdomain>
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Switching VS Bridging
Collision Domain VS Broadcast Domain
L2 in general is the layer that the new folks often misunderstand.
I once had someone ask me what a hub was. That pretty much told me how
old I was....
-Hammer-
"I was a normal American nerd"
-Jack Herer
On 2/15/2012 2:47 PM, John Kristoff wrote:
> Hi friends,
>
> As some of you may know, I occasionally teach networking to college
> students and I frequently encounter misconceptions about some aspect
> of networking that can take a fair amount of effort to correct.
>
> For instance, a topic that has come up on this list before is how the
> inappropriate use of classful terminology is rampant among students,
> books and often other teachers. Furthermore, the terminology isn't even
> always used correctly in the original context of classful addressing.
>
> I have a handful of common misconceptions that I'd put on a top 10 list,
> but I'd like to solicit from this community what it considers to be the
> most annoying and common operational misconceptions future operators
> often come at you with.
>
> I'd prefer replies off-list and can summarize back to the list if
> there is interest.
>
> John
>
>
