gramathy

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I'm new to networking and self-hosting and have no idea where to start.

I’ve been slowly working my way though a list of skills to learn, both to put on my resume and as personal growth. Networking is the next thing on this list. I am not sure what I am looking for, but I want to start another project. I have built many a personal computer, but the world of networking is a pretty foreign concept...

gramathy,

Classful networking is well past dead, that’s kinda pointless. Learn VLSM and general subnetting basics instead.

gramathy,

There’s nothing inherently important to classful networking you learn that’s necessary for VLSM. They amount to common convention based on subnet size, and even then nearly nobody actually uses A or B sized subnets except as summary routes, which again, is not inherent to classful networking.

Classful networking has been obsolete for thirty years for good reason, you gain nothing from restricting yourself in that way.

gramathy,

Nothing actually uses classful networking anymore. Any situation where classful network concepts are implemented is necessarily limiting the capabilities of the network. As such it’s completely useless to bother spending time learning it.

gramathy,

If chatGPT was marketed towards workers filing reports for idiot bosses that won’t know the difference it would have been made illegal within the month

gramathy,

Yeah but nobody actually believed that, even 3D movies weren’t good

gramathy,

Jokes on them, I pretend to be useful to everyone else but I’m not

gramathy,

Yeah, there’s “bad” and there’s “embarrassingly terrible”

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