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IT: What would you liked to have learned in a networking class?

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This is kind of a follow up from another post I made a while ago, I am helping a teacher set up a lab for a networking class. Now what I need to find out is what things should be taught to the students. As professionals now in the work force which things did you find lacking in your own educations as well as which things do you find indispensable to know.

please I ask for any and all opinions and ideas,

thank you very much
 
I am about to begin teaching networking classes for a local training center. One thing that I have noticed that very few IT professionals know about is subnetting. They might have the general idea, but very few know about CISD, or how to find a network ID. There was an NT 4.0 MCSE in a win2k networking essentials class (i know there is no win2k network essentials class, but Microsoft curriculum includes the class) and he didn't know binary math and how to find out if two computers can see each other by their subnets and ip's. Really, I don't know many people at all who know about subnetting. I was helping a friend study for Win2k server test using transcenders, and he looked at me like i was a freaking genius when I started showing him how to solve questions like computer a and computer b can see each other, what ip and subnet should computer c use to see the other machines. (or something similar to that)

just my opinion, i could be wrong.
 
I was thinking about teaching the 802.xx standards in the advanced class (VPN, VLAN, Link Aggregation, QOS). Any ideas or opinions on this, and whether it's worth it, thankyou.

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802 standars are very important, but make sure you dont skimp on the up and coming standard. 802.11 and 802.11b wasnt covered at all in one of my classes, but it is very prevalent right now.
 
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