[CLUE-Tech] October talk.

[David Anselmi]

Jed S. Baer wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:03:00 -0600
> David Anselmi <anselmi at americanisp.net> wrote:
> 
>>I've (finally) updated the web site for the October meeting.
> 
> Way to go, Dave! ;-)

Well, I missed the date on the main page so it said Sep until today. 
Sorry for any confusion.

> Actually, I'm not sure that packet-level stuff is all that important.

I think it is.  I suspect that BOF's post about reading firewall logs 
stems from not understanding the underlying details so well.  It's the 
low level details that make IP routable while ethernet is not--and 
understanding that helps you know where to look when you have problems.

I see a fair number of people asking questions with conceptual errors, 
like sending pings to a particular port, or firewalls blocking the 
telnet *protocol*, or the limited number of ports in the world.  So I 
want to show people what goes on underneath so they will have a more 
intuitive understanding of how the tools they use work.

Granted, this will be a balancing act between too much theory and too 
little which is part of the reason I've asked for two meetings to cover 
it.  I hope I can pull it off, though I guess I won't please everyone.

Thanks for the input, keep it coming!

Dave