From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Apr 19 2002 - 18:14:51 GMT-3
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.
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