The Twelve Networking Truths (RFC 1925)

2006-09-25 12:50 pm
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RFC 1925 -- R. Callon
(3) With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead.

(4) Some things in life can never be fully appreciated nor understood unless experienced firsthand. Some things in networking can never be fully understood by someone who neither builds commercial networking equipment nor runs an operational network.

(5) It is always possible to aglutenate multiple separate problems into a single complex interdependent solution. In most cases this is a bad idea.

(6) It is easier to move a problem around (for example, by moving the problem to a different part of the overall network architecture) than it is to solve it.
Never mind that it's dated April 1; it's still all true.
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Date: 2006-09-25 08:14 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] technoshaman.livejournal.com
There have been other April Fools RFC's that work just fine as well. Like IP over Homing Pigeon. Of course, with the advent of gigabyte and two-gigabyte USB sticks, I imagine the throughput of your average RFC-1149-based circuit is gonna go way up... although the latency still blows pigeon poop. :)

Date: 2006-09-25 11:20 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mdlbear
Storage capacity has been growing faster than bandwidth for a long time now -- just drive crosstown with a drive in your briefcase for a practical demonstration. Latency isn't important if the file you're transferring is large enough: sneakernet or CPIP still gets it there sooner.

Date: 2006-09-26 06:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aerowolf.livejournal.com
That may be true... but remember that you still have to process the file on the other side.

Date: 2006-09-26 06:22 am (UTC)
mdlbear: blue fractal bear with text "since 2002" (Default)
From: [personal profile] mdlbear
CPU-bus bandwidth has been growing a lot faster than network bandwidth, though it's still not keeping up. So it takes longer and longer to copy or process a local disk, but not nearly as long as it takes to send it over a network.

Date: 2006-09-25 10:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aerowolf.livejournal.com
I wish they weren't truths. Unfortunately, they are.
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