From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Tue Mar 23 2004 - 11:35:31 GMT-3
At 8:32 AM +0100 3/23/04, Sam Meftahi wrote:
>IMHO, the emphasis was on understanding the technology instead of
>learning it(not about taking classes !). There is a slight nuance
>here.
>When u learn routing, u know how to configure it, but when u
>understand it u can bend it back and forward, fine tune it etc..
>
>This has nothing to do about how u achieve this level.
>But yes, I agree troubleshooting in labs and live network is invaluable.
It is invaluable, but, depending on how you define understanding the
technology, not complete. If one wishes to read and understand a
complex routing protocol specification, there's no getting around
having a knowledge of automata theory and abstract data structuring,
because those are some of the techniques used to explain things in
the standard.
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