When I say your own I mean... Give them a major net 135.50.0.0/16, or something like that.
Then say R2 tokenring needs to be a /28. R3 to R5 P2P connection needs to have no more than two host addresses. So on & so forth. Make them work a bit to figure it out. This was vital to my understanding of subnettting/VLSM/CIDR. I thought I really knew all this stuff well until I hit the rack. Then I realized after 8 months that now I can crank it out without even thinking about it & how little I really did know. Also as far as time is concerned. I can address & get layer 2 operational on a 10 router lab in less than an hour. frame/atm/switching/ the works. Helps pound all the meaningless stuff that you might overlook into your head so far that you can never forget it. Of course this is just my opinion. >>> "Howard C. Berkowitz" 04/19/02 04:14PM >>> At 4:06 PM -0500 4/19/02, DAN DORTON wrote: >Howard, > >Just my opinion, but... > >I still do not use the pre-configs for any of the new commercial >labs that I have. > >I believe building the address schemes & figuring out how to >summarize with them is a vital component. > >I understand why they are not on the actual lab, but for learning >purposes I would say make the user worry about the addressing & >masking. > >Dan > Thanks, Dan. That is something I've been concerned about myself since the one-day format with preassigned addresses was introduced. As should be fairly well known, I tend to be compulsive about addressing, and would prefer to do my own. The counterargument is that the real labs may play some specific games with addressing to make things difficult. In other words, your decent addressing plan would avoid some of the problems the real test would force you to construct. You have given me the idea that scenarios perhaps should give the user an option whether or not to accept preconfigured addresses. The only caveat I might make on that is that commercial labs may require you to use specified addresses to reach resources (e.g., test generators, TFTP servers) outside the pod. _________________________________________________________________ Commercial lab list: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/commercial.html Please discuss commercial lab solutions on this list. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=42025&t=42025 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
