Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [WAY OT] wanna learn networking internals

[Francisco Ares]

2015-09-03 11:31 GMT-03:00 James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>:

> 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



Thanks for the tip and for the video, those glory days of progressive rock
still amazes old and new generations.

To jump right now on a project like the ones you mentioned is, for now, out
of scope. But as more depth can be reached, well, who knows?

Best Regards,
Francisco