What I learnt today!

Today was a beautiful but rather a hot day.
I learnt about PROXY in networking.How a group of PCs are connected to a gateway all the way to a web page say (www.google.com) and finally the internet.
A Gateway is a generic name used which shows how a LAN gets to another network ,it allows one network to communicate with another network whilst a proxy is a server which acts anintemediary between computers and the internet, In short it makes requests for you.
I further learnt on proxy-caching which simply means the storing of webpages accessed often. One interesting thing on how go about proxy-caching is to follow some steps below.
1. The user requests for a webpage
2. A proxy interrupts requests and asks for the web page in place of the user
3. The web page is sent back to the proxy
4. The proxy stores the web page in a file/ cache on the screen
5. The proxy sends copy to the user

Windows uses a version of proxy called ICS.
I further experienced on how to locate and get an IP Address, which can be found through the static or the Dynamic way and also the classes of networks and how to write them.
I think todays lesson was pretty cool and interesting.Some of these things you don't get to learn about them by using the school,s syllabus but through research work and interest.
Later!