slazer2au@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWhat is the technical hill you are willing to die on in your industry?message-squaremessage-square280linkfedilinkarrow-up1132arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1128arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the technical hill you are willing to die on in your industry?slazer2au@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square280linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareflamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 month agoUnderstanding 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.
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·1 month agoSo does the TCP/IP model and that is what systems actually use.
minus-squareneidu3@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoPlenty of things don’t fit into the TCP/IP model at all. Infiniband, for starters.
minus-squarecalcopiritus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoThank you. Didn’t know of any non-IP network stack. Got something new to research while commuting.
minus-squareneidu3@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoAnother one is fibre channel (not to be confused with just running ethernet over fiber).
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·1 month agoDoes infiniband run IP?
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·1 month agoIt doest run CLNS either.
minus-squareneidu3@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 month agoDoesn’t matter. The OSI model does not stipulate an OSI protocol
minus-squareiegod@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoThis is going to blow your mind but there are other systems out there that do not implement TCP/IP at all.
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoAnd they all have their own models to learn.
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.
So does the TCP/IP model and that is what systems actually use.
Plenty of things don’t fit into the TCP/IP model at all. Infiniband, for starters.
Thank you. Didn’t know of any non-IP network stack. Got something new to research while commuting.
Another one is fibre channel (not to be confused with just running ethernet over fiber).
Does infiniband run IP?
No
It doest run CLNS either.
Doesn’t matter. The OSI model does not stipulate an OSI protocol
This is going to blow your mind but there are other systems out there that do not implement TCP/IP at all.
And they all have their own models to learn.