Francisco Ares <frares <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Sorry for such WAY out of topic message, but Gentoo users are also way > out of regular computer users. Far out man..... some psychedelic mood music, say Pink Floyd Ummagumma:: Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave...[2] (now that we got the proper 'grove on'.............let's roll! > I intend to learn more deep details about networking intrinsics, > (packets, ports, negotiation, UDP, multicast, unicast, TCP, ethernet, > DHCP, protocols, and so on) so I decided to recur to this list. > Francisco Well, if you really want to 'Get Smart' as in get to 'the edge' of all of this, why not just jump straight to (SDN) Software Defined Networks and such things as OpenVswitch on a cluster? [1]. Our good friends at Rackspace are very progressive in their ideas and systems development. As you learn about SDN, you can backfill what the old farts have done in the past and be an active part of the future? Just search out SDN as it's a revolution in networking that just may be the disruptive thang that is so desperately needed. PS::I bet McKinnon can build a buffered serial port sniffer out of those old 74LSxx chips! I have a wide selection of those old 74LS chips in tubes, just in case you get an itch you need to scratch....... The date codes have faded....all I can make out is ....you old fart..... cheers, James [1] https://www.pytexas.org/2015/talk/45 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrRhnaFaBsA
