Three Packets Walk into a Tunnel
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Three Packets Walk into a Tunnel
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#2The second packet says to the others, “You two are completely out of order!“
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#3Usually I’d tell the UDP joke at this point, but you might not get it
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#4One of the best features of the Internet is when the inventor of some thing chimes in to explain the history behind it.
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#5Usually I’d tell the UDP joke at this point, but you might not get it
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#6Related, as mentioned:
Traceroute Isn't Real
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#7Usually I’d tell the UDP joke at this point, but you might not get it
You could try tuning your network stack, but you can’t tuna fish
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#8One of the best features of the Internet is when the inventor of some thing chimes in to explain the history behind it.
We sit at the feet of the giants whose shoulders we stand on.
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Re: Three Packets Walk into a Tunnel
#10Around that time (1996) I worked a lot with ATM. We had Cisco routers and switches and Fore switches that were doing something called "LAN Emulation" (LANE, https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/tech/asynchronous-transfer-mod...) on ATM (with a 622 Mbit/s backbone, no less).
It was bleeding edge technology and kind of a nightmare because randomly the management plane would lose the mappings from IP to ATM and the "LAN" randomly stopped working (here's a troubleshooting guide, though :-) https://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/internetworking/troubleshoo...) . We also did some wide-area networking with ATM that worked by manually setting up ATM PVCs with some telco guys throughout Europe.
Back then there was also quite a bit of activity for using ATM with Linux, led by Werner Almesberger (who also developed the LILO bootloader): https://www.almesberger.net/cv/papers/atm_3rd.pdf