On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 01:40:14PM -0400, Gary J. Hanley wrote:

Well, I'm not a Network Admin, but I would suggest the cheapest way to start is to build a home network with a hub and at least cheap 3 PCs doing different functions to serve the network (DNS, Sendmail, etc.)

I guess it depends on your definition of "Network Admin." If you want to learn network-related services (DHCP, DNS, NIS, Sendmail, etc,) that's more of a System Administrator role. Network Admininistrator implies the focus is on the network (TCP/IP, routing, VLANs, Spanning Tree, etc.) Some folks (myself included) do pieces of both. If you want to be a network-centric admin, I would probably start looking at networking textbooks and possibly work towards becoming a CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Admin.) I've seen good comments made about: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471345865/qid=997293880/sr=1-24/ref=... Other than that, you'll probably want to get your hands wet. Find a job as a junior/novice somewhere and learn from folks. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: Ensign Rosebud? "He's SLED, Jim!"