> There's such a divide between network engineers and everyone else, Only between network engineers and programmers. Sysadmins are not that far from netadmins,

> There's such a divide between network engineers and everyone else, Only between network engineers and programmers. Sysadmins are not that far from netadmins, and they have no such problems. > maybe because most network knowledge is gained in the field and it's pretty hard to get the experience without being in the networking corps. No, not really. That's only because programmers are reluctant to learn from administrators, OS, network, or otherwise. Admins have quite a lot of material about networking, and on different levels, too, and the field is quite simple if you don't reach the point of coordinating with everybody else (BGP, autonomous systems, things like that).