You may find the CCNA study material useful. I went from utterly clueless about networking (literally nothing beyond "no lights meant no network connection") to competent courtesy of the material. There are a few good books out there, though the exam cram ones may be dependent on too much prior knowledge. It will ensure you've got a good enough grounding to understand what your network guru is talking about, a reasonable understanding of routing, subnetting etc. for when it comes to troubleshooting network problems, and also familiarity and comfort with the Cisco IOS.
Paul On 08/19/2010 11:20 AM, 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/
