[wplug] Networking?

Matthew J. Hughes mhues at verizon.net
Sat Nov 12 16:55:21 EST 2005


Sorry to everybody who knew this already but you might want to take a 
look at oreilly's open book  project; http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/
The Linux Network Administrator's Guide is in there among others.
-Matt


Diana A. Clarion wrote:

>On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:34:21PM -0400, Christopher DeMarco wrote:
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>>On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 07:18:29PM -0400, Zach wrote:
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>>>On a related note does anyone know of a good open source geared
>>>book/website/PDF on learning networking? I'd like to learn wireless
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>>The Linux Networking HOWTO at http://tldp.org is pretty good.
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>>O'Reilly's __TCP/IP Networking__ (I think that's the title) is excellent.
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>The Linux Network Administrator's Guide is dated, but still good.
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>>The canonical work on the topic is W. Richard Stevens' __TCP/IP
>>Illustrated Vol. 1__, which will give you more detail than you
>>probably want, but it's *the* authoritative text.  If you're not
>>interested in disassembling IP packet headers it's probably overkill.
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>I bought Vols. 1 and 2 a couple of years ago, and have absolutely no regrets
>over the $100+ I spent.
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>>>classical nuts and bolts side first. It would have to be networking
>>>on the cheap since I can't afford to buy CISCO routers, PIX firewall
>>>etc. to learn on :) I know a little but want to learn much more
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>>You don't need anything commercial at this point; a bunch of castaway
>>beige boxes running Linux, a carton of cheapie 10/100 NICs, a medusa
>>of CAT-5, and some switches/hubs and you've got a servicable lab.
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>I second that.  That, in fact, is what's running here.
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