[48290] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Certification or College degrees?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold Nipper)
Sun May 26 03:19:25 2002
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 09:17:28 +0200
From: Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de>
To: M?ns Nilsson <mansaxel@sunet.se>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 08:33:11AM +0200, M?ns Nilsson wrote:
>
> (this is actually my first NANOG post ever...)
>
> At the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, we have a series
> of courses that focus on networking. The starting one can be seen as
> "getting the programmer to know IP's quirks", but as we progress, we teach
> deeper and deeper into the technicalities of routing, including theory of
> routing (discussion of Dijkstra, and similar) and practice; we have a
> routing lab where we first make them understand that static routes don't
> work and then progress into understanding first OSPF, then BGP.
>
Nothing is more stable and cuases less pain than static routing. And it
always works. Ofc ourse it doesn't scale very and also doesn't support
alternate paths very well ;-))
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Arnold Nipper / nIPper consulting mailto:arnold@nipper.de
