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Common operational misconceptions
- Subject: Common operational misconceptions
- From: lowen at pari.edu (Lamar Owen)
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:45:26 -0500
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
On Friday, February 17, 2012 01:30:30 AM Carsten Bormann wrote:
> Ah, one of the greatest misconceptions still around in 2012:
> -- OSI Layer numbers mean something.
> or
> -- Somewhere in the sky, there is an exact definition of what is layer 2, layer 3, layer 4, layer 5 (!), layer 7
Misconception: Layers are not recursive.
Thanks to tunneling/MPLS/other encapsulation techniques, they are.