[149970] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Common operational misconceptions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (-Hammer-)
Fri Feb 17 09:30:49 2012
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:29:42 -0600
From: -Hammer- <bhmccie@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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This list is awesome. Is anyone consolidating it? I'm still catching up
on the thread....
-Hammer-
"I was a normal American nerd"
-Jack Herer
On 2/17/2012 1:05 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2012, at 07:50, Paul Graydon wrote:
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>> what OSI means
> Yet another common misconception popping up:
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> -- You can talk about the OSI model in the present tense
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> (That said -- yes, it is still useful as a set of simple terms for certain combinations of functions.
> It is also still useful as a way to calibrate your gut feeling of what is going on in a network.
> Just never expect OSI terms to have a precise meaning in today's networks.
> 1978 is now a third of a century ago...
> If you need precision, you need to spell out what you mean in today's terms.)
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> Grüße, Carsten
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