Every sysadmin, database admin, web admin, developer, and IT professional should understand the basics of networking.
It's much easier to teach a system administrator the basics of networking, than to teach a network administrator the basics of system administration.
Responsible for managing servers i.e. computers, running an OS, whose main task is providing services to other servers or users, rather than the network.
They should:
- Learn the basics of networking
Responsible for managing network equipment, such as routers.
They should:
- Learn basics of how servers operate.
- Understand the basics of:
- user access control and privileges
- processes
- services and daemons
- install/remove software