Re: job screening question

[Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, William Herrin wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
> > I would use questions such as the following:
> >
> > 1.      How many end-sites can be numbered from a single /32.
> >                 (Correct answers: IPv4 - 1, IPv6 - 65,536)
>
> IPv6 - 16,777,216 to 268,435,456 :p
>
>
> > 5.      What is the reason for the 100m distance limit within an ethernet collision domain?
>
> What's an ethernet collision domain? Seriously, when was the last time
> you dealt with a half duplex ethernet?

You've never (much less recently) seen a customer misconfigure their end 
of an ethernet handoff such that you end up with duplex mismatch? 
Granted, in that case, distance is irrelevant...but it is half half-duplex 
ethernet :)

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