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Re: TCP/IP skills
From: Chris Byrd <cbyrd01 () yahoo com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:41:56 -0700 (PDT)
The best knowledge comes from practical experience. Install a protocol analyzer (Ethereal <http://www.ethereal.com/> is free) and look at real world data. If you don't have access to a business network to examine, use your home network, or you can get sample packet captures <http://www.ethereal.com/sample/> to start with. That being said, in my opinion, the second best knowledge comes from O'Reilly books. Take a look at: Internet Core Protocols: The Definitive Guide <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/> TCP/IP Network Administration, 3rd Edition <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tcp3/> Building Internet Firewalls, 2nd Edition <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/fire2/> You might want to think about a Safari <http://safari.oreilly.com/> membership to save some money on the cost of the books. Many community colleges offer low cost classes in networking and computer security, usually taught by people with experience in the industry. Many colleges also offer Cisco Network Academy classes <http://cisco.netacad.net> as well. Hope this helps, best of luck to you. Chris "Jordan Cole (stilist)" <stilist () gmail com> wrote:I'm not a professional in any sense of the word, I just toy with technology out of love. I have yet to find a good tutorial or instruction manual on how to use TCP/IP or many of the other technologies used in security and the internet. While I'm sure they exist, I simply haven't stumbled across them yet. It took me several tries with Google to find an explanation of SMTP; even then it wasn't obvious from the search results. Perhaps if somebody would make a website or (inexpensive) book dedicated to topics such as these, more geeks/professionals would have a knowledge of it. And that concludes my outsider's view. :) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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