Throw in a few routing protocols, change the hosts around, and it should
keep you busy for a while!
>From: "Chuck Larrieu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Chuck Larrieu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Cisco Mail List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Some Networking Study tips
>Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:59:56 -0800
>
>I came across the following approach while preparing for my CCIE written.
>Both BOSON and CertificationZone practice tests used questions centered
>around this approach, and I found it useful in studying protocol behavior.
>
>Draw out an environment kinda like the following:
>
>Host----medium----device-------medium--------device--------medium----device-
>-----medium-----host
>
>Medium = ethernet, token ring, FDDI, frame relay, T1, OC3, ATM
>Device = router, bridge, switch
>
>Put as many media segments and devices as you want
>Data needs to go from host to host. Substitute in various specifics for
>medium and device.
>Ask yourself what protocols have to be in place, and where.
>Ask yourself about source and destination MACs from various places within
>the chain.
>Ask yourself about source and destination Ips
>If the media on either side of a device is token ring, for example, what
>can
>the device be?
>If one side is ethernet and the other FDDI, what can the device be?
>
>I'm sure you all can come up with even more complications and examples.
>
>For even more fun, make the drawing three dimensional ( multiple devices
>hanging off the various media segments )
>
>You can have a lot of fun with this, and also practice visualizing what
>happens as data is moved from here to there. As I said, I saw examples like
>this from both BOSON and CertZone, and I found it useful in practicing
>protocol behavior recognition.
>
>
>Chuck
>----------------------
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>as
>it has been is over ( if you hope to pass ) From this time forward, you
>will
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>( apologies to the folks at Star Trek TNG )
>
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