Subject: Re: How our young colleagues are being educated.... Date: Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 02:56:40AM -0500 Quoting William Herrin (b...@herrin.us): > In the real world you often assign a /32 to a loopback address on each > router and make all of the serial interfaces borrow that address (ip > unnumbered in Cisco parlance) which wastes no addresses.
Why would you want to waste 79228162514264337593543950336 addresses on a loopback? More seriously, why does this discussion only briefly mention IPv6? Every client comes with it (aggressvely) enabled -- it is there despite the fat / happy parts of the networking community sitting on their legacy space and laughing at Asia. I've had, as mentioned earlier, a "cisco graduate" as intern and then colleague for a year now. He's a fast learner, and that was needed. No v6. Not much MPLS. No ISIS. Barely eBGP. No iBGP, especially not in conjunction with a link-state IGP. Lots of RIP, Flame Delay and EIGRP. There are two problems; * The academic community is either outdated or married to a vendor-specific course -- and that marriage is not very academic, IMNSHO. Academia must be vendor agnostic. * The vendor courses are too enterprisey, and an outdated enterprise at that. There is no course in "running a sensible chunk of the Internet". And this in a world where the largest innovation the last 5 years is abstraction (as in virtualisation and to some extent SDN). Not in protocols. Should be reasonably easy to keep up. -- Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina MN-1334-RIPE +46 705 989668 So this is what it feels like to be potato salad
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