On Feb 15, 2012, at 12:47 PM, John Kristoff wrote: > Hi friends, > > As some of you may know, I occasionally teach networking to college > students and I frequently encounter misconceptions about some aspect > of networking that can take a fair amount of effort to correct. > > For instance, a topic that has come up on this list before is how the > inappropriate use of classful terminology is rampant among students, > books and often other teachers. Furthermore, the terminology isn't even > always used correctly in the original context of classful addressing. > > I have a handful of common misconceptions that I'd put on a top 10 list, > but I'd like to solicit from this community what it considers to be the > most annoying and common operational misconceptions future operators > often come at you with. > > I'd prefer replies off-list and can summarize back to the list if > there is interest. > > John
I think one of the most damaging fundamental misconceptions which is not only rampant among students, but, also enterprise IT professionals is the idea that NAT is a security tool and the inability to conceive of the separation between NAT (header mutilation) and Stateful Inspection (policy enforcement). Owen
