Ask Slashdot: Becoming a Network Administrator?

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 5, 2011 @07:37AM from the why-not-hire-one-to-show-you dept.

J. L. Tympanum writes "After many years as a star programmer, I have taken a position which involves maintaining and rebuilding the in-house network of a small company. There are maybe 100 machines, a mix of blade servers running Linux and desktop PCs running Windows of all flavors. Basically, I have to learn networking from scratch. I have been given an 'unlimited' budget to buy routers, switches, etc., to set up my own little test network as part of the learning process. So the question is: what's the right strategy here? What routers or switches or other equipment should I acquire? What books should I read? Should I take classes from Cisco, Global Knowledge, my local community college, or somewhere else?"

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Only 100 workstations by ninthbit · 2011-05-05 07:45 · Score: 0, Troll

LOL... Really? If you can't handle that one, then you are really doing more harm than good by trying. Thats about as simple as a network get, right after a home network. I don't even know where to start.