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I design motherboards for network devices; I keep the internet going.

Routes are inaccessible without access to them. The underlying machine states to check for access to a route is algorithmically similar to the other checking for user access.

It’s unfortunate so many are allowed to work in IT with cliff notes level awareness of how technology works.

The layers of indirection you work with are the knobs and buttons people like me choose. You merely obfuscate with vacuous jargon to serve your career goals.



Well aren't you just the genius holding the internet together.

Of course the underlying algos are similar, because they are table matching and they are also doing either min or max matching depending on the requirements.

They're also sorted for most efficient access. Does that make sorting somehow part of access control?

btw, these days, most of the "internet" is expressed either in programmable hardware or in software. Some of those algorithms may be expressed in raw hardware.

I work with a guy that makes gzip operate in hardware at 10G speeds, I'm aware of the requirements of networking.

I'm also aware of the OSI layers and how they sort of but not quite map to L1-4 of modern networks, which only have those names because of OSI.

So don't insult people here because you do some low level network design.




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