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BUT WHAT DRIVES YOU REALLY NUTTS IS when a friend of your working with M$ says commenting on this stupid mail; "you linux people are spammers and above all you try to promote yourselves through selling pirated material"...

Networking essentials

Keynotes of the first networking essentials session held in Sakia on Monday the 2nd of Aug 2004

• Information sharing
• Hardware and software sharing
• Centralized administration and support

Roles of computers in a network

• Client
• Server

• WAN
• LAN

• Application (layer 7)
• Presentation (layer 6)]
• Session (layer 5)
• Transport (layer 4)
• Network (layer 3)
• Data-link (layer 2)
• Physical (layer 1)

• Types of cables
  • Coaxial
  • Fiber optic
  • Twisted pair (UTP,STP,FTP)