peter hessler - inactiveApr 5, 2017

At BSDCan, I'll be giving a tutorial "BGP for Sysadmins/Developers". This will be my first class I've taught solo.

My future intentions for this is to teach networking and #BGP for people that know nothing about networking. I found it somewhat difficult to move from Sysadmin to Network Admin, and I want to help others cross over if they want.

Not to mention, having a solid understanding of networking will help you with computers in general.

Show threadColin MahnsApr 5, 2017
@phessler this is awesome! my formal network training (applied sciences major in school) has been super useful for myself working in incident response. the nitty gritty networking stuff isn't taught as much as it should to other IT fields
Show threadpeter hessler - inactiveApr 5, 2017

@colinmahns I've also found, that when it *is* taught, they teach things that have been *deprecated* for 23 years. Things that are actively dangerous for people to learn.

My day job is managing the 4th largest network in Germany. I brought us up from 15th place when I started, 2 years ago. I feel I have the practical knowledge to be able to teach others :).

Show threadColin Mahns
@phessler noticed that too! I've had to tell people various old concepts no longer apply in "the real world" a number of times. one nice thing at my community college was working directly on cisco/juniper equipment, at least I saw how these things were implemented first before shooting my mouth off 😅
Apr 5, 2017 at 9:01pmWeb