slazer2au@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoWhat is the technical hill you are willing to die on in your industry?message-squaremessage-square278fedilinkarrow-up1129arrow-down15file-text
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minus-squareflamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 months 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-down3·2 months agoSo does the TCP/IP model and that is what systems actually use.
minus-squareneidu3@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoPlenty of things don’t fit into the TCP/IP model at all. Infiniband, for starters.
minus-squarecalcopiritus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoThank you. Didn’t know of any non-IP network stack. Got something new to research while commuting.
minus-squareneidu3@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoAnother one is fibre channel (not to be confused with just running ethernet over fiber).
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·2 months agoDoes infiniband run IP?
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·2 months agoIt doest run CLNS either.
minus-squareneidu3@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 months 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.