[149817] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Common operational misconceptions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Thu Feb 16 03:31:17 2012
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: John Kristoff <jtk@cymru.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:32:07 +0000
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 15 Feb 2012, at 20:50, "John Kristoff" <jtk@cymru.com> wrote:
> Hi friends,
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
When I took an A level computing course in the 90s the course material sti=
ll talked about primary stor and backing stor, batch jobs and the like...
Needless to say I quit in disgust but the point is that the people who wri=
te these courses are often woefully out of touch.
--
Leigh
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