I think mine may take a little longer to boot up, especially on Mondays
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From: Wilson, Bradley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 12:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Why Should the Binary Math Method Be
Used to Subnet [7:15314]
Are you allowed to take a subnet calculator into *any*
certification test?
If your network is crashing and (for some reason) you need
to do some quick
binary math to solve the problem, do you really have time to
wait to run
back to your desk and launch (or perhaps even download
first) a subnet
calculator program? Will subnet calculators know enough to
ask the
questions that you don't know to ask regarding a given
situation?
In my opinion, the only calculator one should depend on for
everyday binary
math problems in networking should be the one located
between one's ears.
With a little bit of practice, it's dependable, reliable,
and takes an
amazingly short time to boot up. ;-)
BJ
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 12:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Why Should the Binary Math Method Be Used to Subnet
[7:15306]
This is a study group so I have a question for which I need
some education.
I am not looking for a flame war, just education. The
question I have is of
what use is the binary math method of subnetting as compared
to just using a
program that does subnetting? If the point to the exercise
is to produce a
plan for subnetting that can then be entered into each
device on the network
or into a DHCP server setup, what else is achieved by doing
this manually?
It seems to me that the point is not the journey, but the
arrival at the
destination. Indeed arrival as quickly as possible, with the
least source of
error. As Cisco even says; "The purpose of this tool is to
provide a way to
calculate IP subnetting which is fast, easy, and error free.
Doing such
calculations manually is time consuming and susceptible to
common
mathematical mistakes, especially in conversions between
binary and decimal
numbers." So what is it I am not understanding?
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