[149788] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Common operational misconceptions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mario Eirea)
Wed Feb 15 21:08:54 2012
From: Mario Eirea <meirea@charterschoolit.com>
To: John Kristoff <jtk@cymru.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:07:36 +0000
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Something that makes me crawl out of my skin is when they refer to an acces=
s point as "router".=20
-Mario Eirea
On Feb 15, 2012, at 3:47 PM, "John Kristoff" <jtk@cymru.com> wrote:
> 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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