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hello people of AO
i was browsing about flicking through links and such and i came accross this its a movie on tcp/ip its really good
(well i thought it was) but the only bad thing was it took me 3 hours to download on a 56k :(
but i thought it could teach a lot of people how a packet moves through a network and the internet
this would be perfect for all of you on ADSL but on 56k i dont really recomend it not unless you want a 3 hour lag
http://www.warriorsofthe.net/clips.html
Origionaly placedon the net by ericson..
I've got it on CD (for a year now) and shown it to a lot of no-know friends..
Realy informative and a lot of fun !
Nice find !!
Ericson pulled it of their own website couse of the high demand and limited bandwith..
i didnt know it was in that high demand the_JinX
i have watched it about 3 times now :) i think it is really good and gives you a good understanding of how your packet is generated and the procedures it goes through to get to the destination
Just watched it... It's ok I guess for someone that has no clue ont tcp/ip and networks in general... A little weak for someone wanting to know more... (doesn't really mention tcp/ip or osi layers, virtual connections...)
Ammo
True ammo, I downloaded it myself and it tied together a lot of loose ends in my head about tcp/ip. It provided me with more of a base to explore tcp/ip, I had read about this kind of stuff before but I'm more of a visual learner when it comes to new things. So, wraping things up... great find prodikal! :cool:
Also for those of you in the same boat as me and want to find out more he's a good site to start...
www.yale.edu/pclt/COMM/TCPIP.HTM
we watched it in my networking class last night, kinda cool, id reccomend it, the ping of death getting squished was pretty entertaining lol.
My main gripe is how the ping of death is actually a rather outdated and bad example in the thing, but I've recommended it to a teacher who is doing a tech-intro class.
I used the movie a few years ago to educate my class (I was myself a student) the foundations in networking. I found the movie more then good to give a non-tech person a good view about what happens when you for example are opening a web browser.
And the movie teached them and gave them a better understanding then I ever could do :).
~micael
hey people i had know idea that this movie was that old i agree that it didnt go in to a lot of detail
but im still learning tcp/ip and it cleared up some small answers that i wasnt grasping all in all it was good
in my opinion i would definetly say it is a good thing for people just starting to learn tcp/ip
thanks for all the responses
Yes the movie is a little bit old but that does not mean that it's a bad movie. Many old things are still good and interesting, look at the pyramids for example ;).
This movie are still one of my first choices if I will start to learn a newbie about networking.
~micael
I am d/l it now but the pipe at the other end
is either small or overloaded
I am only getting 21K, usually I get 130-180K
depending on the time of day on my ADSL
Well It is time to start the Pop-Corn Maker!!
Re-thinking about it, the part about dropped packet is misleading:
it implies that when high bandwidth is connected to lower bandwidth, packets get dropped and resent, when in fact this should rarely happen because of the send/recieve windows and acknowledges...
Ammo
I have used this as a teaching tool myself, in a over view class it gives the student visual understanding of the protocals and how they in a light hearted way.
TMV
Hi,
I think the movie is nice, it looks nice, nice music, etc. But it is nice only if you want to visualize the whole tcp/ip system. It's almost for little kids (of the future maybe), to learn very basic computer communication. I think the movie, how nice it is, is a bad projection of the tcp/ip world. Packets don't get kicked in the right direction, routers don't just drop packets if they can't handle them, etc. etc. If you really want to understand tcp/ip don't watch this movie. Packets aren't some kind of little bulldozers.
It also is getting old, but that has already been mentioned. I think I have it for over a year now...
That was my oppinion, I like the movie. Nice find.
Neel
I loved it! I cried at the end :-)
Sweet, dling it now, I've been wondering though, anyone have a good Linux app that plays mpeg's? Or is there one already on SuSE that can play mpegs? I havent googled it yet >.<, but I was just wondering if anybody knows of some off the top of their heads. Thanks guys!
SuSE has more than almost every Linux distro combined. If your using KDE, click on the KDE menu, then go to multimedia and video, also you can install more right of the SuSE install media. Mplayer is one that comes to mind I used alot, XINE is prolly there too.
ya I tried Xine but didnt get it playing, Ill just have to mess around with it a bit, still new to LinuxQuote:
Originally posted here by gore
SuSE has more than almost every Linux distro combined. If your using KDE, click on the KDE menu, then go to multimedia and video, also you can install more right of the SuSE install media. Mplayer is one that comes to mind I used alot, XINE is prolly there too.
:D
Ok, Mplayer works nicely with it, thanks a lot for the help! :)