On Tuesday 19 Aug 2008, Amit Joshi wrote: > > I agree that it would be a better idea to spend money on buying new > hardware instead of joining an Institute. But I think there are some > units in those modules where you have to learn Networking with a > cluster of systems. It won't be easy to do that at home, although I > am aware of various network simulation softwares available these > days. > Are there any suggestions regarding learning the networking part of > the exam at home?
Virtualization, there are several options. virtual box (open source edition) is fairly easy to setup and comes with fairly good documentation. On a system with with say 2GB RAM and a Dual Core 2.0GHz CPU, you could very well run 2 virtual machines for a total of three including the host system. It may not be possible to simulate every network scenario on such a setup. On networking, an excellent intro book is "The Linux Network Administrator's Guide," Second Edition by Olaf Kirch and Terry Dawson available here <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html> HTH, -- Arun Khan -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
