Kind of !dev

Googleable question but I though you guys will give better advice. I am curious about computer networking and want to learn about that a bit. Any resources you recommend.

https://edx.org/course/subject/...

followed their course on finance.
there are shortcomings, but its free and quite complete

@bad-frog Thanks

To anyone reading I am still open to more suggestions

Wait so I can connect my headphones to the internet now ?

@-red I don't get what you want to talking about. I asked for resources to learn about computer networking and you are asking about connecting headphones to the internet. For connecting headphones to the internet look at wifi headphones https://majorhifi.com/how-do-wifi-h... This was found on google.

@Sony-wf-1000xm3
I do not know about the ‘best’ resources if you’re entirely new to to networks but I learnt by messing around with Linux routing and trying out some sample networks on mininet/ns3. And obviously, a lot of random reading on the internet.

I think Kurose Ross is good if you want to first become familiar with some lingo before you search on the internet for resources and start experimenting yourself.

If you want to take a deeper dive, Data Networks by Gallagher is the book which I read when I was learning. It’s a nice book which starts off with a bit of history and then goes on to discuss the various protocols, algorithms or methods used in networks which developed over time.

Last I know, PDFs of both there books were available on the internet for free.

Tbh, I did CCNA for my university/college and it was great. Just the first one might already give you some neat basics. I think you can just take it on netacad.com .

Then I used WireGuard (and docker-compose) in a selfhost craze to ingrane the knowledge. The nice thing about Wireguard is that it kinda gives you a basic "LAN over the internet". It has some basic access check with AllowedIps, but you still need to configure everything with basic IP (and maybe IPTables) commands yourself.

So if you're not interested in the Cisco course:
- Install Wireguard on at least two devices.
- Configure it without helpers like wg-quick.
- Try to nat a network from one device to the other.
- Try out IPv6.

I currently route even just some specifc IPs of my university/college through my own VPN as well as all of my Smartphones internet.

@-red @LinusCDE Thanks

@ostream Will a discontinued adsl 2 router be sufficient