[154560] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: job screening question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Jul 5 21:30:02 2012
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:28:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGUZZryJoxTA6koAdQH7AGzFK4ncv2pKu5WV0hxCnFAaHQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, William Herrin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>> I would use questions such as the following:
>>
>> 1. How many end-sites can be numbered from a single /32.
>> (Correct answers: IPv4 - 1, IPv6 - 65,536)
>
> IPv6 - 16,777,216 to 268,435,456 :p
>
>
>> 5. What is the reason for the 100m distance limit within an ethernet collision domain?
>
> What's an ethernet collision domain? Seriously, when was the last time
> you dealt with a half duplex ethernet?
You've never (much less recently) seen a customer misconfigure their end
of an ethernet handoff such that you end up with duplex mismatch?
Granted, in that case, distance is irrelevant...but it is half half-duplex
ethernet :)
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