[ale] OT "Homework" was Networking question

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The Cisco guides for CCNA and CCNP have been less than clear on subnetting. The thing that helped me the most last time I tried to figure it out was a Sybex guide (think it was an earlier CCNA guide). 

Since we're so off-topic - how is preparing for the exam? My 15 year old son will be homeschooled this year, and I wasn't sure if we wanted to work on A+, N+, CCNA or just hack around with servers. I've got some routers to play with, and was thinking of picking up a spare PC or two for messing with. (of course, he'd rather mess with 60's or 70's American cars with V8s and 4 speeds - so we'll have to balance it a bit)

Bruce

> 
> From: Trey Sizemore <trey at fastmail.fm>
> Date: 2005/07/23 Sat AM 10:35:47 EDT
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] OT "Homework" was Networking question
> 
>
> 
> HA!  Actually, not homework at all.  Well, not homework in the sense
> it's for a school, more just my *own* homework ;-)
> 
> Doing some study for certifications (Network+) and this has always
> troubled me.  I passed my LPIC I, but I'm sure I bombed the questions
> around subnets and it's bothered me for a while now.  Definitely
> something I need to know.  THe question I started with above came from
> an online tutorial.  They spoke of the situation with 2 subnets, but not
> six, so I was trying to work it out for myself.
> 
> The above response has helped me somewhat, but just need to sit down and
> go over once more with my calculator and work with the binary forms as
> well.
> 
> Thanks again
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Trey
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