the first three steps

[waider]

1. Rate in order of speed: read from cpu register, disk seek, context switch, read from main memory.
2. What are the three packets which establish a TCP session?
3. How many machines can you put in a /17 network (method of calculating will suffice)

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Comments

[candice.livejournal.com]

I'm more likely to post something snarky along the lines of "well, you can put as many -computers- as you want, but you get limited along the lines of how many addresses you can give them, and how many interfaces you use.

[waider.livejournal.com]

...which doesn't get you anything except stroppy with the person asking the questions, which wasn't really the point of the exercise. But to each their own.