Linux Basement Presents: Chad’s Blog

I’ve been working on Cisco equipment for about 3 weeks now. It’s been nice to get away from the normal workload and concentrate on configurations from scratch. I like configuring routers and switches because it takes you back to the basics. It keeps you sharp on tcp/ip and how packets transverse on a network. If there is one thing I would suggest to someone who wants to get into IT, it would be to learn how packets travel on a tcp/ip network. Not necessarily on a Cisco network, but the basics, on any network. This helps in all aspects of technology, even when you are trying to figure out why your port 8080 traffic will not go through a firewall. And really, I doubt it is a coincidence that hack it and packet rhyme. Right?