2015-09-03 11:31 GMT-03:00 James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.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
