[SGVLUG] Linux Class

[Joel Witherspoon]

Whatis.com has one of the best definitions I've read:

In information technology, a network is a series of points or
node<http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci212665,00.html>s
> interconnected by communication paths. Networks can interconnect with other
> networks and contain subnetworks.
>



On 7/14/06, David Lawyer <dave at lafn.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 08:31:05AM -0700, Joel Witherspoon wrote:
> > I'm putting together a basic Linux class for a local Adult School. Does
> > anyone have any ideas, books, topics I should cover?
>
> I took a Linux class at Pasadena City College a few years ago.  The
> textbook they started with was so bad that I got them to switch to:
> "Linux, the Textbook" (2001) which was better.  The enrollment was
> only several students, some of whom dropped it, so the course was
> dropped.
>
> In ... the Textbook in: 14.2 Computer Networks and Internetworking it
> reads: "When two or more computer hardware resources (computers,
> printers, scanners, plotters, etc.) are connected, they form a computer
> network."  This is wrong, but what it right?   First, the definition
> of a network has to be fuzzy.  If I connect 2 PC's together using a
> network protocol, then it's a network in a sense, since it uses a
> network protocol.  But I think that two devices connected together
> point-to-point isn't a network unless the point-to-point connection
> is part of a larger network (like PPP on the phone line to connect to
> the internet via an ISP).
>
> So what is a network?  3 or more devices connected together, not on a
> bus, and using a network protocol of some type (including ethernet).
> Am I right?
>
>                         David Lawyer
>
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