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Old 11th July 2008
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Originally Posted by 18Googol2 View Post
Sorry to be blunt but the majority of CCNA students still know *nothing* about networking even though they get pretty good mark, especially when it comes to *nix environment.

If you are given one public IP, in your case, NAT (NAPT) is the only way for more than 1 PC talking to the outside world
It's a great program if you will work with only one or two types of Cisco routers (the ones they train you one) - and it at least gives a good foundation for networking basics, such as IP addresses and subnets and the OSI and TCP/IP protocol stacks and what is an ACL (that is what is, not how to make a really good one).

But, you are correct that it doesn't prepare their students well for general *NIX network administration (i.e., setting up firewalls, setting up DHCP, etc.). I'm learning it a bit at a time - slowly, but surely.
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