On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 10:45 -0500, John H Terpstra - Samba Team wrote: > I want to add my support for the "yes" answer - network admins most > certainly ought to understand CIDR. Sadlly, too many don't.
No one is asking Linux administrators to setup RIP, OSPF, etc... with Zebra or another service. No one is asking Linux administrators to understand all sorts of network administration. But _elementary_ network concepts _must_ be understood, even by "junior" Linux system administrators. They _are_ covered on Microsoft, Sun and other vendor exams as well. These "basic concepts" include, at least in my book ... - RFC 1519 CIDR [IPv4] (Prefix and Subnet equivalents) - RFC 1918 Private Subnets [IPv4] (10/8, 172.16/12, 198.168/16) - RFC 2373 IPv6 Addressing Architecture (how to read IPv6 addresses) - RFC 2462 IPv6 Link Local / Stateless (e.g., fe80::/64) - RFC 3927 IPv4 Link Local / Stateless (e.g., 169.254/16) Every operating system shipping today ships with: - CIDR and prefix notations - IPv4 private subnet defaults (10/8, 172.16/12, 192.168/16) - IPv6 Loopback address (::1) - IPv6 Link Local address (fe80::/64) - IPv4 Link Local Address (169.254/16) I don't expect junior admins to understand everything, but I _do_ expect them to be able to identify each and _every_ one of the above at a bare _minimum_. I've brought this up before, and the _only_ reason I do, is because, again ... Every operating system shipping today does these by default. ;) -- Bryan J Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance Mugshot Homepage: http://mugshot.org/person?who=58wDcGKx6NcZAb --------------------------------------------------------------- Fission Power: An Inconvenient Solution _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
