If 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.

@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.

@creepy_owlet

I 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

@gbraad

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@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.