Open Source (Linksys WRT54G)

I should get my company to pay for this class/test for me...actually they should get all the GIS guys in my building to take it. They come to me when they have questions and I'm not even an IT guy.
 
I cant see how you can even compare a red hat engineer to a CCIE, I think thats a little absurd. Its really nothing more than having a glorified MCSE. Yes the test is practical but if you know your s*** a practical test will be easier anyday than a written one. Or at least for me it would be, I am not someone that reads something and just absorbs it :( I would say the RH is more valuable than MCSE, duhh since everyone and their brother has it and their exams are just pretty much simple, or it could be because I know the s*** I guess I dunno :)

anyway back on topic, I have one of these routers so I gotta go try this when I get time :)
 
Well Redhat's Pre-Assesment tests aren't that bad.

I just scored another 36/48 on the Sys Admin Questionaire.

Then I got a 31/48 on the Network and Security Questionaire. My short-comings were DNS/BIND and NIS...two services I have never configured myself.
 
tekkie said:
I cant see how you can even compare a red hat engineer to a CCIE, I think thats a little absurd. Its really nothing more than having a glorified MCSE. Yes the test is practical but if you know your s*** a practical test will be easier anyday than a written one. Or at least for me it would be, I am not someone that reads something and just absorbs it :( I would say the RH is more valuable than MCSE, duhh since everyone and their brother has it and their exams are just pretty much simple, or it could be because I know the s*** I guess I dunno :)

anyway back on topic, I have one of these routers so I gotta go try this when I get time :)

It wasn't my comparison. I must say that the meterial itself is not that hard, it's just the shear amount of stuff they throw at you in the time period. You have to be familiar in ALL areas, cause you don't know what they will thow at you...
 
chuyler1 said:
Well Redhat's Pre-Assesment tests aren't that bad.

I just scored another 36/48 on the Sys Admin Questionaire.

Then I got a 31/48 on the Network and Security Questionaire. My short-comings were DNS/BIND and NIS...two services I have never configured myself.

This is what did me in. NIS. Who uses that anymore?
 
LinuxRacr said:
This is what did me in. NIS. Who uses that anymore?

correct me if I am wrong but pretty much every place that uses alot of Unix stations still use NIS, I know that all of our R&D centers worldwide still use it

is there something to replace it?

sorry I am not the greatest unix reference (dunno)
 
tekkie said:
correct me if I am wrong but pretty much every place that uses alot of Unix stations still use NIS, I know that all of our R&D centers worldwide still use it

is there something to replace it?

sorry I am not the greatest unix reference (dunno)

We don't use it...at least not on any of the thousands of servers I help support.
 
LinuxRacr said:
Nope, servers. In some cases multi-million dollar servers.

thats probably why they are not using it, I think you normally just setup the workstations to use NIS and not the servers

much the same as you would use windows stations to use DHCP and not the servers

I know our guys use it to give out DNS, hosts files, nfs mounts etc, that way you can just make the change once and it effects all the machines

wait a second you already know all this lol :D

ah but I have one for you

I was trying to install Red Hat ES 4 from a DVD onto a IBM HS20 blade it would boot up, ask me if I wanted to use gui or text mode, and whichever I choose it would come up after I entered the IP, name etc and say that I needed to insert CD 1??? whats with that I could not find any help anywhere on that issue
 
P5gurly's husband here ....

Think this would work on the WRTp54G - the VOIP verison that you get with Vonage?

I have little to no knowledge with networking but would love to mess around with it a bit. I just figured out I could plug the Linksys router from Vonage into an open port on my D-Link router to expand the number of ports I had - yea sad isnt it.

Pe@ce
 
LinuxRacr said:
Nope. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they make you pay $20 a year to download from them?

Yep, I believe thats true. Just curious as I heard some good things about it. Though free is mucho better J
 
tekkie said:
I was trying to install Red Hat ES 4 from a DVD onto a IBM HS20 blade it would boot up, ask me if I wanted to use gui or text mode, and whichever I choose it would come up after I entered the IP, name etc and say that I needed to insert CD 1??? whats with that I could not find any help anywhere on that issue
Was it a service pack release of ES4? I know with SuSE if you have for example SuSE SLES 9 SP3 you also need the base SuSE SLES 9 CDs to perform a fresh install. When you boot from SP3 CD1 it will ask for CD 1. What it means is that you have to insert the original CD 1, not the one from the service pack.
 
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