> We take for granted the inter-connectivity of most modern equipment, but to this day companies still try to create synthetic technology monopolies to cash-in. i.e. to sustain a tenuous service commodity out of something that has essentially been free since the mid 1990s.
This is why as a network engineer I always advocate for open standards everywhere I can to avoid vendor lock-in. The classic one is using OSPF instead of EIGRP on Cisco routers (or their other proprietary protocols). Nowadays this is much tricker with cloud computing and black box stuff like SDN/SDWAN.
Re:Why TCP needs 3 handshakes
by Joel_Mckay on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @12:41PM
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Most good engineers I've met follow the same open standards prioritization recommendation.
The drama that goes on inside Cisco could fill a soap opera season. =3
We take for granted the inter-connectivity of most modern equipment, but to this day companies still try to create synthetic technology monopolies to cash-in. i.e. to sustain a tenuous service commodity out of something that has essentially been free since the mid 1990s.
https://xkcd.com/927/
Philosophically it doesn't matter TCP is imperfect, but rather that the inter-connectivity is compatible with the inertia of the installed infrastructure.
One can indeed optimistically ignore the TCP connection drop and syn part of standards to tunnel/reverse-proxy though certain censorship firewalls... but it still does not make it safe for the people that live under such regimes.
Does this make it more or less clear? =3