[149755] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Common operational misconceptions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mathias Wolkert)
Wed Feb 15 17:01:09 2012
In-Reply-To: <20120215144715.18e65a55@w520.localdomain>
From: Mathias Wolkert <tias@netnod.se>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:59:37 +0100
To: John Kristoff <jtk@cymru.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Autoneg. The old timers that don't trust it after a few decades of decent co=
de. Or those that lock one side and expect the other to adjust to that.=20
/Tias
15 feb 2012 kl. 21:47 skrev John Kristoff <jtk@cymru.com>:
> Hi friends,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I'd prefer replies off-list and can summarize back to the list if
> there is interest.
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> John
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