On 15 July 2014 21:26, Fabian Thorns <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/15/2014 08:21 PM, G. Matthew Rice wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Alexandru Juncu <[email protected]> wrote: >>> About the "Subnetting", how in depth should this be treated? Because, >>> for example, Cisco CCNA courses dedicate entire chapter for this. I >>> noticed that LPIC treaded the idea of subnet only at classful >>> boundaries (with class A,B and C subnet masks). Will this still be >>> the case or any subnet masks be valid (in this case, I would add the >>> concept of dotted quad representation of netmasks and prefix >>> notation). >> We've dumped the notion of Class A/B/C networks. It is full /n >> subnetting that is expected knowledge. >> >> And dotted quads are also expected knowledge for netmasks, too. > > Would it help to add CIDR as the list of terms? > > Not addressing ancient network classes seems good to me and with IPv6 > becoming more popular the overall concept of CIDR should be familiar to > all candidates.
I would actually not add either CIDR or the idea of classes. CIRD is de facto the only thing used and classes have been outdated for about a decade (I used the terms to point out what was in the previous/current curriculum). And don't get me wrong, I don't think it's a bad idea to only talk about classless netmasks. Just wanted to point out that properly teaching subnetting takes more effort (have been teaching subnetting to many generations of students and though a lot of them got the idea quickly, many had difficulties when tested on the matter). _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
