At 11:59 AM 10/2/00, Donald B Johnson Jr wrote:
>Hi ALL
>I have instructed different courses in the past and think the objective of
>teaching things in the real-world should be balanced with things that could
>be categorized theory, old or legacy. Imagine day one new students in your
>class and you start talking VLSM and OSPF design issues.
No, that is not a proper analogy. A proper analogy would be, imagine new
students, and you start teaching them the HELLO protocol and CHAOSNET. &;-)
Priscilla
>DUCK
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Thomas Lisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 1:09 PM
>Subject: Re: RIF RII Please help!
>
>
> > Priscilla,
> >
> > Since when has "real world" ever had anything to do with it? Case in
>point,
> > Cisco still has us teaching (and is testing based on it) classful
>addressing in
> > our academy!
> >
> > Tom Lisa, Instructor, CCNA, CCAI
> > Community College of Southern Nevada
> > Cisco Regional Networking Academy
> >
> >
> >
> > Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote:
> >
> > > At 08:27 AM 9/28/00, you wrote:
> > > >Is there any easy way to understand how the RIF and RII work?
> > >
> > > Get a protocol analyzer and let it do it for you. Seriously. If the
>tests
> > > are still asking you to decode RIFs by hand, this is really silly. You
>will
> > > have very little need for this skill in the real world, if you ask me.
> > >
> > > If the tests do expect you to decode a RIF by hand, (I can't remember if
> > > they do or not), then just remember what the major fields are and how
>big
> > > they are.
> > >
> > > Routing control field is two bytes.
> > > Each route descriptor is two bytes, consisting of 12 bits for ring
>number
> > > and 4 bits for bridge number.
> > >
> > > For more info, see the white paper on this subject at GroupStudy:
> > >
> > > http://www.groupstudy.com/notes/notepages/rif2.html
> > >
> > > Priscilla
> > >
> >
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