You may find varying levels of "tolerance" for network-newbies, but NANOG can be an excellent resource for asking intelligent questions. The disclaimer here is that NANOG is really aimed at "network operators" (carriers, etc.) but there's a lot of large institutions, web sites, etc., with significant presence in the NANOG mailing list and conferences.
On Aug 19, 2010, at 5:20 PM, Damion Alexander wrote: > Greetings, > > I just added the networking group (better stated: person) to my newly > formed group of Sys Admins. I am pretty savvy with Systems, but I can > only play a network person on TV. > > Could someone point me in some good directions to get up to speed on > networking (we use all cisco gear) so that I can truly support my > networking person? > > I'm decent with the levels 4 and above of the OSI networking model, but > my knowledge starts to plummet below that. I would like to be able to > discuss our current network design, and ways to improve it. Also being > able to assist on network problems would be good too. > > Thanks in advance, > > Damion > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
