Gerard BraadIf you have suggestions for something I should work on, what should this be?
- like learning a language or skil
- a computer technology
- etc.
I am curious what you come up with that you consider useful.
Dmitry Tantsur@gbraad not sure about you, but I'm pondering learning something that will make me more employable given that everything goes to shit. For instance, I'm embarrassingly bad at networks.
@creepy_owlet That is one of the things I am actually good at, and virtualization.
So yeah, that is a good topic. I gave my associate some homework a few weeks ago, about HDLC... and he saw the reason why after experimenting with it.
But anything IP level, or TCP+UDP is important. If you need some suggestion, please.
Start for sure with Tanenbaum's book. Not the best, but still a good starter
@gbraad anything that would let me refresh TCP/IP and then progress to modern stuff like TCP multipath and complex topics like BGP. A good book is preferred, but I'm not sure about the practical part.
Aleksandra FedorovaI have "Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach" by Kurose and Ross on my bookshelf. It seems to be less famous, but I find its style more interesting.
They do not feel like a collection of protocol specifications. And they have some homework assignments.
But i haven't still read it beyond first chapters :o
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60209775-computer-networking
zhenech@bookwar @creepy_owlet @gbraad
It's a good book! We used it in uni back in the day. Not sure how much it had been keept uptodate with developments after ~2010 tho.
my uni also used a different book, written by the teacher himself; possible self-interest/commission ;-D. Thought it was a straightforward book, just only in Dutch.
A large section was about IPv6. Boy, that was useful ;-)
@gbraad @bookwar @creepy_owlet
The German translation of "Top Down Approach" was/is by the prof who taught the networking course, so I can see some parallels here :)
@zhenech @bookwar @creepy_owlet
sneaky, smart or ... ? ;-)
... they just do not trust other people's work