What is the technical hill you are willing to die on in your industry?
What is the technical hill you are willing to die on in your industry?
Every industry is full of technical hills that people plant their flag on. What is yours?
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They should stop teaching the OSI model and stick to the DOD TCP/IP model
In the world of computer networking you are constantly hammered about the OSI model and how computer communication fits into that model. But outside of specific legacy uses, nothing runs the OSI suite, everything runs TCP/IP.
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Understanding that other protocols are possible is important. Sure, reality doesn't fit neatly into the OSI model, but it gives you a conceptual idea of everything that goes into a networking stack.
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So does the TCP/IP model and that is what systems actually use.
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Plenty of things don't fit into the TCP/IP model at all. Infiniband, for starters.
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Thank you. Didn't know of any non-IP network stack. Got something new to research while commuting.
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Another one is fibre channel (not to be confused with just running ethernet over fiber).
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Does infiniband run IP?
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No
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It doest run CLNS either.
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Doesn't matter. The OSI model does not stipulate an OSI protocol
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This is going to blow your mind but there are other systems out there that do not implement TCP/IP at all.
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And they all have their own models to learn.
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I don't discount your point but coming from the support side, it'll cause confusion to call it a layer 6 issue than a layer 8 issue. Layer 0 issues won't change at least, especially as long as sales gets in the middle of project planning.
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