Re: Time to kill layer 2

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Phillip Hallam-Baker <[e-mail]> writes:

> This morning I spent an hour debugging the network to print out two
> class projects that were due. Some points:
>
> 1) My ability to debug the network is better than 99% of the population
> 2) The interaction of Bonjour, DHCP and auto power saving is unfortunate
> 3) Things should still work after I have been away for a week
> 4) If vendors want to be selling all that IoT gear, they have to solve
> these issues.
>
> 5) I want someone to blame. Right now when the network doesn't work, I
> don't know who is the cause. I want one point of contact. Whoever is
> that point of contact will get most of my networking money.

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> One of the reasons that IP won against OSI was that it was simpler.
> Applications ran on top of the IP layer with only TCP inbetween. Of
> course these days we do have a Presentation layer, Web Services run on
> HTTP. But unlike the OSI presentation layer, ours does not introduce
> extra moving parts.

The funny thing about mentioning OSI here is that it would probably be
very easy indeed to triage your network issue if your hosts were running
ES-IS, and your routers IS-IS. You could plug into IS-IS and see
everything. :)

Thanks,
Chris.