- Jan 31, 2005
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You have to explain them to a 7 year old... 
So my daughter got an MP3 player today, and I was transferring most of my music to the kids PC so she could use whatever on her player. My son came over and asked if he could use the computer and I told him to wait a bit because I was moving files.
Boy did that get it started.
"You mean their talking to each other?"
"Kind of, yes. I'm moving files from this PC to the other one."
Then he asked how they talked to each other so I showed him the 4 port wireless router and said they talk through that.
Of course he asks what happens when theres no more free ports (After I explained ports).
So I showed him the Catalyst 2800 in the closet.
And of course, what happens when THATS full. So then we go on about networking with small networks (home stuff), medium networks and using routers to segregate routers, how you can restrict access from a prt of the network to another, IP addresses etc etc.
Nothing tests ones networking knowledge like explaining it to a 7 year old!
So my daughter got an MP3 player today, and I was transferring most of my music to the kids PC so she could use whatever on her player. My son came over and asked if he could use the computer and I told him to wait a bit because I was moving files.
Boy did that get it started.
"You mean their talking to each other?"
"Kind of, yes. I'm moving files from this PC to the other one."
Then he asked how they talked to each other so I showed him the 4 port wireless router and said they talk through that.
Of course he asks what happens when theres no more free ports (After I explained ports).
So I showed him the Catalyst 2800 in the closet.
And of course, what happens when THATS full. So then we go on about networking with small networks (home stuff), medium networks and using routers to segregate routers, how you can restrict access from a prt of the network to another, IP addresses etc etc.
Nothing tests ones networking knowledge like explaining it to a 7 year old!
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