On 4/16/06, kevin lyda <kevin at ie.suberic.net> wrote:
> Teaching people about TCP/IP and the protocols on top of it is great
> for internet related companies, but it's not all that great for people
> presented with some of the more obscure and yet widely used networking
> technologies.
The main theory involved with networking protocols is understanding
the OSI layer model and the difference in the various type of layer 3
routing protocols. This doesn't need to be taught as part of a
degree - any CCNA is who more than merely a certification monkey has
this.
A year ago I found myself administering and designing a very large
network that ran CLNS, and it was the theory that I'd learned that
helped - had I simply been taught "this is an IP packet" it wouldn't
have,
Thomas
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