Author: James Courtier-Dutton Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Networking course
On 20 June 2011 09:08, Peter Andrijeczko <peter.andrijeczko@???> wrote: > If you're fairly new to the who IP networking & telecoms arena, my advice to
> you is to sort out the IP networking side of it first - so get an
> understanding of IP addressing, subnetting, router concepts, the IP stack
> and how applications (SSH, HTTP, etc.) sit on top of it.
>
> When you've got that under your belt, it will serve as a good grounding for
> the telecoms side of things because then you can move into QoS, VoIP, SIP,
> Session Border Controllers and all that kind of good stuff.
>
I agree, get the basic stuff understood first.
Under the basic stuff listed above, please make sure you add "ARP" and
"MAC addressing" into the list.
The amount of so called networking experts I have interviewed that
don't understand ARP is astounding.
