> You practically can't read a network sniffer trace unless you understand the OSI reference model
I read these all the time. I can't remember the last time I needed to know what the OSI layers were called; they're utterly irrelevant to networking as near as I can tell.
You don't need the OSI model to understand layers of abstraction. Since the OSI model doesn't fit the observed layers very well, it seems pretty useless from that perspective.
I read these all the time. I can't remember the last time I needed to know what the OSI layers were called; they're utterly irrelevant to networking as near as I can tell.