[NTLUG:Discuss] OT but I suspect some of you know the answer

[Robert Pearson]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Robert Citek <robert.citek at gmail.com> wrote:
> A little of an aside, I recently setup a virtual network using
> VirtualBox OSE on an Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) host.  The guests were all
> running Ubuntu Server (10.04) with 64 MB RAM and 2GB virtual disk
> space.  That was enough to try out running several services (DHCP,
> DNS, NAT, ssh, etc.) to a network of machines.
>

Was this a new install or an upgrade from 8.04?
If an upgrade how did it go?

> Just an option if someone wants to explore networking and doesn't have
> enough physical hardware to experiment.
>
> BTW, a good book which gives a feel for how programs actually use
> networks to communicate with each other is "Network Programming with
> Perl":
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Network-Programming-Perl-Lincoln-Stein/dp/0201615711
>
> Good luck and let us know how things go.
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
>