Learn as Linux Administrator

[sethg at ropine.com (Seth Gordon)]

   [Jeffry Smith:]
   I would also recommend setting up a small network at home (2 cheap 
   computers to start with) where you can play around with the stuff.  
   There's nothing like doing it to make you understand.

Addendum: If the only Internet access you have is through a dialup
account, do *not* try to set things up so that both computers can be
on the Internet at once.  Get familiar with how to connect a single
computer to the Net with a modem, and with how to connect two
computers into an intranet with Ethernet.  After you've got those
situations under your belt, you can consider trying to connect an
household network to the wider Net over a modem.

I mention this because I was in this situation in my old apartment
(with a phone line that could do 33 Kbps when there weren't too many
birds sitting on the wires), and getting everything interconnected was
much harder (at least, for a beginner) than I had anticipated.

-- 
"Rav would never cross a bridge when an idolator was on it; he said, 'Maybe he
will be judged and I will be taken with him.'  Shmuel would only cross a
bridge when an idolator was on it; he said, 'Satan cannot rule two nations [at
once].'  Rabbi Yannai would examine [the bridge] and cross."  --Shabbat 32a
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