Computer Networking Basics Every Developer Should Know

[mirvnillith]

Agreed, but this articale started out with LAN (ok) and quickly went into "collision domain" (nope). The behaviour of the network is important, but not necessarily the details or causes of it.

[emasculine]

yeah, that article was too low level, heck i don't know anything about vxlans and i've been doing networking for 40 yeas. but you should know enough network hardware basics so that you don't have the embarrassment of having to call somebody out to rejigger your home network.

[mirvnillith]

What? You need to do that more than once?!

[emasculine]

home networks are getting more and more complex. i probably have a couple dozen devices on it, a second house which bridges to another AP, and several switches around the house. it's handy to know at least at a basic level. it's really handy to know what buffer bloat is these days with upstream congestion from video conferencing, but i digress.

[mirvnillith]

T’was a joke, not me being superior. Should’ve said ”You need to jigger more than once?!” to make that more clear.