On: Ask YC: Any network gurus want a paid holiday?

[jeremymcanally]

If you take the official network classes from Cisco then you do spend a lot more time on real equipment than buried in a book.

// finished 4 semesters of CCNA instruction only to be too poor to afford the testing. :)

[brk → jeremymcanally]

And where does that equipment live?

Unless things have changed since I last looked, it's all labware. Sure, that's better than pure textbook, but still a far cry from reality.

[jeremymcanally → brk]

We had a full network setup where I took them, with a fair amount of real hardware (of varying manufacturers even [a few AdTran boxes]). Perhaps that is a rarity, I'm not sure. :)