[149940] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Common operational misconceptions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carsten Bormann)
Fri Feb 17 01:32:04 2012
From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F3D3806.4000008@brightok.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:30:30 +0100
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 16, 2012, at 18:08, Jack Bates wrote:
> It at first started with trying to explain that vlan based switching =
is not Layer-3. :(
Ah, one of the greatest misconceptions still around in 2012:
-- OSI Layer numbers mean something.
or
-- Somewhere in the sky, there is an exact definition of what is layer =
2, layer 3, layer 4, layer 5 (!), layer 7
or
-- my definition is righter than yours
Gr=FC=DFe, Carsten
