Reading the article and the comments reminded me: Every generation -discovers- learns their foundations anew.
I learnt about traceroute, ping and other network setup basics in my very first job (early 90s) as a network admin in a remote building in Bangalore, setting up the very first WAN for some of the earliest tech (now) behemoths, when the latency of the WAN -- over the SEA-ME-WE cables -- exceeded ~1-2 seconds. The satellite hops via EU added more latency. Traceroute and ping where your best friends to diagnose the frequent drops, from the building top microwave antenna to the only ISP (govt approved, of course) that offered a whopping 2x 64 kbps links. And that supported an entire org of 400-500 developers, including state-of-the-art video conf system to NYC, Ottawa, Tokyo.
Curious to figure out how these tools worked, I borrowed copies of the bible (TCP/IP Illustrated - W Richard Stevens [1]), still the most authentic source of all things TCP/IP related.
I'm not one for nostalgia, but fond memories there. Great to see a modern Rust impl though.
I learnt about traceroute, ping and other network setup basics in my very first job (early 90s) as a network admin in a remote building in Bangalore, setting up the very first WAN for some of the earliest tech (now) behemoths, when the latency of the WAN -- over the SEA-ME-WE cables -- exceeded ~1-2 seconds. The satellite hops via EU added more latency. Traceroute and ping where your best friends to diagnose the frequent drops, from the building top microwave antenna to the only ISP (govt approved, of course) that offered a whopping 2x 64 kbps links. And that supported an entire org of 400-500 developers, including state-of-the-art video conf system to NYC, Ottawa, Tokyo.
Curious to figure out how these tools worked, I borrowed copies of the bible (TCP/IP Illustrated - W Richard Stevens [1]), still the most authentic source of all things TCP/IP related.
I'm not one for nostalgia, but fond memories there. Great to see a modern Rust impl though.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Richard_Stevens