<a href="http://Whatis.com">Whatis.com</a> has one of the best definitions I've read:<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
In information technology, a network is a series of points or <a href="http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci212665,00.html" class="inline">node</a>s interconnected by communication paths. Networks can interconnect with other networks and contain subnetworks.
<br></blockquote><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Lawyer</b> <<a href="mailto:dave@lafn.org">dave@lafn.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 08:31:05AM -0700, Joel Witherspoon wrote:<br>> I'm putting together a basic Linux class for a local Adult School. Does<br>> anyone have any ideas, books, topics I should cover?<br><br>I took a Linux class at Pasadena City College a few years ago. The
<br>textbook they started with was so bad that I got them to switch to:<br>"Linux, the Textbook" (2001) which was better. The enrollment was<br>only several students, some of whom dropped it, so the course was<br>
dropped.<br><br>In ... the Textbook in: 14.2 Computer Networks and Internetworking it<br>reads: "When two or more computer hardware resources (computers,<br>printers, scanners, plotters, etc.) are connected, they form a computer
<br>network." This is wrong, but what it right? First, the definition<br>of a network has to be fuzzy. If I connect 2 PC's together using a<br>network protocol, then it's a network in a sense, since it uses a<br>
network protocol. But I think that two devices connected together<br>point-to-point isn't a network unless the point-to-point connection<br>is part of a larger network (like PPP on the phone line to connect to<br>the internet via an ISP).
<br><br>So what is a network? 3 or more devices connected together, not on a<br>bus, and using a network protocol of some type (including ethernet).<br>Am I right?<br><br> David Lawyer<br></blockquote>
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