>>>SNIP With a little bit of practice, it's dependable, reliable, and takes an amazingly short time to boot up. ;-) >>>END SNIP I've been known to take upto 12 hours to boot up when I've got too much blood in the alcohol stream. Phil. --- "Wilson, Bradley" wrote: > 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? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=15332&t=15332 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
