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Visual Network Simulator To Teach Basic Networking?
unteer writes "I am a US Peace Corps volunteer currently teaching a computer technician course at a technical college in Kenya. My students have all completed the Kenyan equivalent of high school and have been accepted into a program where they give a year of nation-building non-military service in return for a technical education. My students' course load includes an introduction to computer networking, and this is where my problem lies. Do any of you know of a visual network simulator that can create an interactive network map that allows me, the instructor, to manipulate various components of a network, including the physical media, routing configuration, and which applications are being used to submit data? An example would be to have a visual of the differences between mail traffic and web traffic, and be able to show how the configuration of a wireless network might be different from a wired network. I know this may seem silly, but visuals of all this are critical to getting ideas across. It doesn't even have to be technically accurate, but rather just pictorially accurate, possibly just labeling the various components correctly. Also, it would be highly preferable if it ran on Linux, as I teach using FOSS only."
Teach 'em to hack into the government computers and find Barry Sotero's birth certificate.
Kenyan, that is. Black fraud.
Just give up. Everyone knows you can't teach niggers anything.
The US peace corps is famous for sterilizing indian women against their will in Bolivia (contrary to popular opinion, this is a fact), for being a nest of spies in Chile (I know I as there), for teaching Colombians to make cocaine, and many more atrocities. The best thing you can do is get out of there. If you want to help somebody fine, just don't let yourself be used by the US government.
It's in Africa. Do you mean coonix?
This sounds completely useless. No wonder I as an actual application developer am always having to solve the network problems for the so-called "Network Engineers". It's because they're playing around with toys like this that serve no actual purpose rather than reading specs and troubleshooting the network and most of all THINKING. What a JOKE!
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