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

[bitpuddle.livejournal.com]

This sounds like a really annoying job interview.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

1) 1, 4, 3, 2 (not sure about those last two)
2) syn, syn-ack, ack (do i have the last two reversed? argh)
3) 256*128, um, 2^15