Networking 101 with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Submitted by Rollie Hawk on Tue, 2006-02-21 10:45.

Want to learn about networking without hours and hours of reading or spending money on a college class? Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte have been doing a series of podcasts that could give you a good starting point for your networking education.

As part of their Security Now! series, Leo and Steve decided to cover some background information on networking to help in tackling security issues in the future. So far, they have covered how the Internet works (part 1, part 2) and have just started on how LANs work (part 1). If they stay on schedule (they sometimes bump topics to cover important security news), the episode a week from Thursday should continue this topic.


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Rollie Hawk is a consultant, web publisher, online personality, magazine writer, web developer, network administrator, teacher, husband and father residing in southern Illinois. He graduated in 2002 from Southern Illinois University, earning his BS majoring in math with a minor in chemistry.

Rollie is a certified math teacher with endorsements in chemistry, physics, and physical science and has taught students of all age groups and abilities, ranging from grade school to the university level. In addition to math and science, he has also taught GED, job skills, and alternative high school classes (his personal favorite).

After the birth of his daughter in 2004, Rollie decided to spend more time at home. This meant leaving his teaching position and devoting his working hours exclusively to consulting, web development, and general IT work.