Damion, you do have a significant technical background and are interested in widening you horizons into the Cisco networking arena, I suggest that you look at the various CCNA training materials as a start, and the CCIE materials later if you are so inclined. The CCNA stuff will get you 'into the party' (especially since you are new to the levels below 4 - CCNA materials will help mostly cover the basic configuration of Cisco devices for levels 1-3) , and the CCIE stuff (if you choose to get more involved) will make you much more dangerous. :-)
In the interests of disclosure, I need to say that I work for Cisco - if you have questions, I'll answer anything that I can. However, I'm don't support network gear at Cisco, I've been a sysadmin and have played with a lot of our gear (and done many other things here :-) and am working with IT automation now. I do have friends inside who's arms I can twist for network answers beyond my knowledge, when needed... - Richard On 8/19/10 2:20 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/
