Re: bridging

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From: Phillip Windell (_at_.)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:53:42 -0500

"Greg Brewer" <greg-spam@brewer.net> wrote in message
news:40fd7dfc$0$451$be864849@news.hal-mli.net...
> Thanks for the clarification; I did figure it out but it took me 2
minutes.
>
> Can you tell me where I went wrong in describing the setup? I have read

Well, I'm not sure I can point a finger at any certain thing, I don't even
have the first post anymore. It just had too many details that weren't
related that made it hard to see the root of the problem, and the Subj was
"Bridging" but there really isn't any bridging involved here at all other
than the normal functioning of the Switch.

> about this stuff a lot and worked with it a bit but I don't really get to
> talk to anyone about it. With most people, I say DNS and DHCP and their
> eyes glaze over. Even most of my IT buddies aren't at my level; they call
> me for help. And I'm usually able to. I want more but I get bored in
> classes. So I read books.

Books can be good, but they can be bad too. Sometimes the authors
improperly use terminology and create confusion. Quite often words get used
in a "slang" sense when those words also have an "official" meaning that is
different, so people get confused on that. "Bridging" and "routing" are
probably the two most butchered terms in the industry.

Personally I like Classes better than books because of the human interaction
and you can ask for clarification on something that the book doesn't make
sense on. In my opinion the best classes to start with are the Cisco CCNA
classes that many local colleges and universities have. The classes & the
program are developed by Cisco. They consist of four classes that provide
an excellent base for everything else to be built on. There are other
programs that go beyond CCNA to CCNP & CCNE, but the CCNA is the first one. 

-- 
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

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