[fgandiya]

Same with my college networking class. The professor talked a lot but we didn't do much besides look at HTTP requests in Wireshark.

The most practical thing I had to do with networking cane up in a job interview where I paired with someone to work on some low later stuff.

[walshemj]

They didn't have you setting up networks with real hardware in a LAB ?

Not sure that starting with http requests is a good idea you need to start at layer 1 and work up.

[sciurus]

This is pretty frequently debated. You can find textbooks that start at L1 and work up the stack, and others that start at L7 and go down.

[fgandiya]

While we learnt from Layer 1, all the setup was in software so we didn't get any hardware.

I think the idea is that we could examine Wireshark frames for the relevant layers.