Hi all,
I am looking for recommendations on resources to learn Linux networking. I am primarily hoping for text resources such as books, guides, blog series, articles, etc. I have trouble focusing on videos.
I am mainly targeting linux networking topics, such as how the linux networking stack works, and things like iptables, network namespaces, network interfaces, sockets, NAT, firewalls, internal IP-addressing, subnetting, routing, proxying, internal DNS, and anything that I may not know exists but is related to these concepts and linux networking in general.
Any recommendations?
The best thing to do imo is insight thru experience - build your own networks (plural), your own software, secure them then connect them.
That was honestly what I was trying, but I felt myself blindly following tutorials without understanding what any of those components are or doing. And searching individual terms was not good enough. The concepts seem intertwined, and searching the web only gave me surface level explanations that didn’t cut it.
https://constvoidblog.wordpress.com/2019/03/16/what-is-the-internet/
I’ve fallen in the same hole before. tbh in my experience you don’t really learn much until things start breaking.
build some of your own projects then. For example, my router has split routing between sites that require no VPN and normal sites. Find a project to do that isn’t covered by tutorials, or read manuals instead of tutorials