From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 26 12:11:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 819861065693 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:11:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from blue.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FECA8FC08 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:11:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oAQCB9KK049638; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:11:09 GMT (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <4CEFA3DD.9090106@qeng-ho.org> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:11:09 +0000 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101030 Thunderbird/3.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline References: <20101125230217.GA25485@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20101125230217.GA25485@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: just found this... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:11:11 -0000 On 11/25/10 23:02, Gary Kline wrote: > I've probably already ranted scores of times that there were no > undergrad networking courses when i was in school, Some of us round here are old enough that computing wasn't even a degree subject when we were at university. :-) > so things like > these are at least entrypoints. My experience with things-computer > is that learning more is largely DIY. Be nice to see more > opencoursework classes in general. Since Unix has the best > philosophy, it is the best way for people to learn. [[ Not that > I'm biases or anything... . ]] This book http://www.amazon.com/Practical-TCP-IP-Designing-Troubleshooting/dp/0201750783/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1290772880&sr=1-1 covers networking from a practical, get it working, rather than theoretical, these are the ISO levels, viewpoint. Sadly it doesn't cover IPv6, nor is there likely be another edition that does, but it covers day to day IPv4 well enough. [Declaration of interest: yes, that is a quote from me on the front cover, and I got my copy free. No, I don't get a percentage, but I will be getting some mulled wine from the author on Sunday.] -- "Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, few know what a wombat looks like, but everyone knows what a dragon looks like." -- Avram Davidson, _Adventures in Unhistory_