57: I Play the Heavy
I’m prepping to write a new edition of Networking for Systems Administrators. Here’s a bit from the beginning where I’m talking to network administrators.
I skip many traditional networking topics because they’re not absolutely essential. SNMP, or the Simple Network Management Protocol, is one example. I filled a book this size discussing SNMP. I do discuss how ICMP is built on top of IP, when the specification wedges it into this misshapen role between the network and transport layers. But someone who’s unclear on TCP versus UDP doesn’t need to go into SNMP, or Netflow, or…
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