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.
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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