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View Poll Results: Do you think a new Networking/hardware forum would be userful?
wahey - yeah that's a cool idea 20 60.61%
no way - that's of no interest to me 4 12.12%
*shrug* not really bothered either way 9 27.27%
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Old January 6th, 2003, 10:41 AM
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Lightbulb New Networking/hardware forum?
Services, Hubs, Switches, Firewalls, Cables, Routers, WaveLan, brouters, bridges, token ring, ethernet, XDSL, csma/cd... all very baffelling, but that's before you have even plugged it in.. and then there are another 6 layers in the OSI model. SNMP? IP addressing? routing? port forwarding? tcp wrappers, spoofing, masquerading, udp, IOS, qnx, CISCO hardware configs.. It's all such a mess!!

I'm suggesting that we can sort this out at last with a 'Networking/hardware' forum or similar. At the moment it's hard to know where to post these things and it's surely too OT for the the 'Devshed Lounge'. So what do you think? Can we keep these discussions under the devshed roof, or do we have to stroll off to linuxquestions.org et al?

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erm... let it fly. It'll probably fall down soon, but worth a shot. I know a couple things so I could post there too.
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Old January 7th, 2003, 05:59 AM
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Well I'm rapdily learning stuff here, but whilst I have fairly advanced knowledge in some areas (eg firewall config), I fall down on the simplest things elsewhere - like how to configure a switch, or how to spec out a network.. A forum here would be a great place to offer help on the things we do know, and to shamelessly expose our ignorance on the things we don't !

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Well, as a long-time-listener, first-time-caller i have no problem with shamelessly exposing my ignorance, especially when it comes to netwrking. However, i am interested in learning more and contributing (if i can help) to the new threads.

You certainly have my vote!

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>150 views but only 20 votes and 3 replies... what's wrong with you people - go ahead vote!
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>150 views but only 20 votes and 3 replies... what's wrong with you people - go ahead vote!
Mostly the same people I think, wondering with each new vote what the result is and what comment people posted with it. And the other thread contains some comments as well...
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yeah - I figured the original thread would die soon enough, but as alcapone pointed out, these polls remain glued to the ceiling for quite a while.. Funny how so many people read, but don't vote!

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..., but as alcapone pointed out, these polls remain glued to the ceiling for quite a while..
*reads the beginning of this thread*
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It'll probably fall down soon, but worth a shot.
Errr... am I missing something??
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Old January 10th, 2003, 08:29 PM
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Mirax, Christo was referring to my last post --> ">150 views but only 20 votes and 3 replies"
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Could be me, but I don't see any connection to that to be honest. Your point was many people viewed the thread but few voted or posted (If I got it right). From viewing only (what seemed to be the case) the thread won't remain 'glued to the ceiling' so how come that was what he was referring to with that sentence? I can understand his last sentence was, but not the other... sorry for my lack of understanding but I just simply don't get it
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There is no connection - we're just bumping this thread for it to look like a sticky!
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Hehe, ok
Glad we (I) sorted that out....

As for bumping, the 20 persons who voted will check all these extra posts, thinking there's something usefull in them (sorry guys ) and will give the thread a popular look (many views and posts) as well as it being 'sticky'.

To keep it a bit on track, I'll repost my comment from the old/dead thread since the thread seems to be deleted
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I wouldn't mind having such a forum but I'm wondering if it fits in DevShed's strategy. As far as I know, these boards are 'for developers by developers'. All forums are related to the development of software I think? While I could understand the need for a place to discuss about ways to setup a server, which cable to connect where etc.. I can also envision people gonna ask about what videocard to buy to play the latest games etc. While that's nice to know as well (I admit ) it doesn't fit with the rest I think? I agree with your saying you don't want to go to some other board since this one is so nice (few boards I know are as organised and friendly to new people) but I don't think that means this board should be dealing with al your wishes/demands. It's also nice to discuss vacation destinations, music and whatever else... but that's where this lounge is for. If you want to talk about it alot, go to a specialised board.


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thanks Mirax for bringing us back on topic ! I was thinking again last night how useful this forum could be. I was playing with SNMP, MRTG and RRDtool, but I can't even get the mrtg stats generated. I'm sure there are plenty of devshed members lurking who might be able to help sort this stuff out. I will also shortly be setting up an office network and It would be great to be able to discuss switch management, or hub selection etc - especially when buying these things is such an expensive task !

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