Oh, and as far as a company only needing to "realisticly" use 3 of the 
254 available hosts in that class C, lots of places use and/or require 
the use of real ip addresses instead of NATing them, depending on 
whether a required application is NAT friendly or not, and whether they 
have enough address space, etc.

Kevin Brown wrote:

>>The test content is easy, but I cant beleive some of these questions...
>>I guess Micro$oft's way of rasing the bar on their tests is making them
>>progressivly worse written. I biched about this the last test but damnit
>>this is insane!  I am staring at a test question right now that makes no
>>sence, in their senario they have an ISP give an entire class C of
>>internet addresses (255) to a office of 100 computers, the ip address
>>range isnt a valid range for internet use, a company that size
>>realisticly wouldent use more than 3 of the 255, and they specify a 24
>>bit subnet or 255.255.255.0 . Then after giving you all this completely
>>bogus info they ask an off the wall question like what subnet mask you
>>would use for your network if you wanted 10 subnets and 10 hosts per
>>subnet.  Even if that did make sence to do, they already specified the
>>subnet mask as 24 bits. So you have to just guess at what they are
>>actually getting at.
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>Welcome to Microsoft logic.  Of course a class C can be further divided down
>into smaller subnets (ASU divides two class Bs into 64 address chunks
>[255.255.255.192]).  So the network would need to be divided into at least 12
>IPs per subnet from the class C.  Wish I had that subnet calculator program that
>was on my system at work.  Makes figuring this out so much easier.
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>>Thank god for Braindumps, if I dident have these I fear the only way to
>>pass these tests would be to stick a crayon in my brain.
>>
>>Cisco's tests are actually well written. This is probably one good
>>reason why theres so many "Paper MCSE's" around, They get out in the
>>feild and dont have any grasp on the right way to do things. But then
>>again if people had a grasp on the right way of doing things there would
>>be more *nix and less windows.
>>
>>Latter!
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