[lpi-discuss] Re: General comments on LPI levels -- after 14 years, they still call me an "Intern"

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday, 14 September 2005 22:46, Mark Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 12:47 -0700, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> > Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
> > > However, the common usage of the word *is* insulting.
> >
> > Are we still the United States of the offended?
> > [ BTW, I assume are an American ]
>
> ERK, no Alan is South African (the .za tld give it away) :)

It's more complex than that - I'm a Scot transplanted to sunny South 
Africa (the surname gives it away) :-)
>
> We should always approach LPI discussions from as international a
> perspective as we can muster.
>
> > A LPIC-1 cannot setup an enterprise network with multiple
> > subnets.  A LPIC-2 is far more capable in this regard.
>
> They better be able to. I was working on subnet items this weekend!

I'd say the LPIC-2 can figure it out, design it and build it. He can 
write down what he wants, so that the LPIC-1 can implement it. To do 
this the LPIC-1 only needs understand exactly what 
192.168.1.0 <255.255.255.128> or 192.168.1.1/25 mean. Testing of the 
deeper understanding of why we are doing it that way on this network 
at this time is deferred to LPIC-2.

Having said that, it turns out that most of the LPIC-1s I know do 
understand the issues of multiple subnets...
-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
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