Re:IP addresses and routing
by mirimir on Thursday July 26, 2018 @12:09PM
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Yes, I also loved this. Bookmarked it.
Amusing anecdote. I'm entirely self-taught about computer stuff. I mean, it barely existed when I was a student. So anyway, descriptions of packet structure seemed so abstract and handwaivy. So for a few Ethernet and TCP/IP packets, I used Wireshark to get bytes from each field as hexadecimal, and crunched the data in Excel. It was incredibly tedious, but ultimately satisfying.
Amusing anecdote. I'm entirely self-taught about computer stuff. I mean, it barely existed when I was a student. So anyway, descriptions of packet structure seemed so abstract and handwaivy. So for a few Ethernet and TCP/IP packets, I used Wireshark to get bytes from each field as hexadecimal, and crunched the data in Excel. It was incredibly tedious, but ultimately satisfying.