Learning about slightly more advanced networking with linux

Paul Warren

Mastodon: @pwarren@mastodon.thewarrens.name

email: paul at thewarrens.name

What even is a network

Ethernet?

Token Ring?

IPX?

AX.25?

What even is a network

tcp??

ipv4?

ipv6?

AX.25?

Allows connections between computers

Managed network?

Controls connections between computers

Scales connections between computers

The Problems

VLAN

OSPF

more detail on what VLANs, OSPF and BGP are for
how to do these things in linux
intro to bird
more detail on bird
building out a virtual network with LXC
ergh, NAT
Why use a 'real' router
OpenWRT

Resources

These slides: https://gitea.pwarren.id.au/pwarren/SysAdmin2022

bird: https://bird.network.cz

KNorrie's network examples: https://github.com/knorrie/network-examples

Openwrt: https://openwrt.org/