On Wed, 2006-05-04 at 22:50 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Guy Fraser wrote: > > Oops... 8^0 > > > > I messed up the layer levels, my bad! > > Oh, ok. I thought I was either so far out in left field > that I wasn't even on the field, going crazy, or you > had made a mistake. I'm glad it was the last :-) > > > It has been over 20 years since I learnt them and it is > > not something that comes up more than once or twice in a > > decade. Besides Microsoft teaches network layers strangely > > and most of the people who blather on about the layers are > > MCSE's and we mostly know that means they can read, but > > until they get a few years of experience they do not know > > much that is of any practical use. It is more important to > > know how the communication layers work than how they > > classified. > > That's certainly true. And OSI is not the only protocol > model around, either. > > Here's something humorous associated with the OSI model for comm... > > http://www.lewistech.com/rlewis/Resources/JamesBondOSI2.aspx > Yes that was good. I am not sure what the protocol model was called when I first learnt how different protocols worked over different media. To be honest, I don't think it had a name, we learnt how serial, ethernet, token ring and a number of different bus technologies worked then we learnt about Dec LAT, XNS, IP, IPX and some others. The only one I work with now is IP but when I worked for Xerox I dealt with all of them but mostly XNS. It has been 10 years since I have used anything but IP and bit of EtherTalk. I have complete left out all the non ethernet protocols. PS I found a Vampire Tap Kit a few months ago cleaning out an old desk. The "youths" I work with had no idea what it was, and when I told them how it was used, they thought I was joking. I also found an AUI cable, and showed them how networking old school was done with a couple of Cisco 2500's without using any transceivers. The had no idea that you could network machines together over ethernet with out using RJ45 patch cables. They thought I was tricking them and using a serial cable.
