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Yeah dude was putting in work. On a related note, Darknet Diaries is a great podcast.
Dude hosting Darknet Diaries was able to quit his job and make a living off that podcast. If it was me I would turn it into some kind of TV series. You could make a ton more money off advertising. Even shytty hacker movies made decent money at the box office so the demand is there.
 

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Anyone here know python? I have a great grasp on the basic concepts and want to move onto OOP or something more intermediate that would naturally come after a basic python course. Any recommendations?
 

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How come I'll be doing Boson sims and the solution has me assign an interface a class B network with a subnet mask of like 255.255.255.0?

Shouldnt it be 255.255.0.0 instead?
 

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How come I'll be doing Boson sims and the solution has me assign an interface a class B network with a subnet mask of like 255.255.255.0?

Shouldnt it be 255.255.0.0 instead?

Classful addressing is dead. That's an issue I have with some of the networking classes is they have you spending pages and pages learning tech that isn't used anymore like frame relay, classful addressing and auto summerization.

Learn subnetting and vlsm really good. Know how many hosts are available in a cidr /20 or /30 so when someone asks you to provision ips for a vlan for 60 devices or a point-to-point wan link you know how to do it.

Flush that classful network shyt out of you head as soon as you pass the CCNA :russ:
 

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Classful addressing is dead. That's an issue I have with some of the networking classes is they have you spending pages and pages learning tech that isn't used anymore like frame relay, classful addressing and auto summerization.

Learn subnetting and vlsm really good. Know how many hosts are available in a cidr /20 or /30 so when someone asks you to provision ips for a vlan for 60 devices or a point-to-point wan link you know how to do it.

Flush that classful network shyt out of you head as soon as you pass the CCNA :russ:

I know how to subnet FLSM and VLSM

Just wish I knew for the purposes of the sim with the IP addressing command how they expected you get the subnet mask

I'm bout to watch some basic videos because I probably missed something basic
 
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I would have to see the sim to help you with that :yeshrug:

But forget class a,b,c addressing and just look at it as network/host bits.

Especially since if you're working for a company the internal network will be using rfc1918 addressing anyway.

You'll have to create a vlan for 25 hosts using 10.2.3.x address space. If you choose a /8 mask like classful addressing suggestions you've wasted thousands of addresses because you only need a /27 worth of host bits to support the vlan.
 
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:wow: if our customers go under and have no money to spend to renew contracts we go under, many are struggling. Might end up being a race to the bottom if this doesn't get better.
 

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How come I'll be doing Boson sims and the solution has me assign an interface a class B network with a subnet mask of like 255.255.255.0?

Shouldnt it be 255.255.0.0 instead?

The purpose is that you use less hosts in that particular network

So perhaps for your SIM it's a /16 network segregated into a smaller /24 networks to save the amount of hosts being used

What is the IP address of this class B network in your SIM?
 
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IT Project Manager makes $118K a year. Took him seven years to get to this point.




25-year-old software engineer makes 210,000K.



These videos are very inspiring and I can't wait to hit this point. Gonna start studying for my Network + again. The goal is to move from Help Desk to a Network Admin/ Sys Admin from there to Cyber Security.
 
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