North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Operations training materials
> On Sat, 22 Apr 1995, Randy Bush wrote: > > > > Not for me, I've done my homework. Unfortunately, I no longer have > > > many of the "texbooks" nor a coherent record of all my sources of info > > > so if I wanted to train another person it would be like reinventing the > > > wheel. :-( > > > > Well then. Money meet mouth, mouth money. Jeez! > > Look Randy, this thread started out with people from Sprint and ANS? > talking about the efforts involved in getting new operations people on > stream and pointing out that they simply couldn't provide any training > for their new ISP customers. > > What I'm trying to point out is that there is more than one way to skin a > cat, i.e. writing a tutorial for the WWW is a far more cost effective > training tool than trying to do one-on-one with each new ISP that signs > on. My perspective is that of someone who has just climbed most of the > steepest part of the learning curve and who has noticed that many of my > peers (new ISP's) haven't got a clue and don't know where to find the info. > > I point them at http://www.isoc.org, http://www.merit.edu, > http://www.ripe.net and http://www.internic.net but they still have to go > rooting around in there looking for the key items in a mass of > information that is of lesser utility. There is no map! The source > documents are nice to have, but without a map you don't even know if you > are looking at the right ones! OK folks, I'll step to the plate (sorta :) I'll host the site on my website (v-site.net) and act as the co-ordinator, evaluator, since I haven't climbed completely out of the learning curve I should be a good evaluator :) Currently I'm reading this book called "Routing on the Internet" by Christian Huitema, it's not bad and will explain Interior Routing Protocols pretty well, it even has a chapter on "policy based routing" but obviously it is incomplete, still It's a start. If you send me URL's and other bit's of advice, I'll try to organize it into a coherent browseable mass. geoffw
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