> more like 802.11

L2 is “relatively simple” in a sense that it’s usually under the same administrative control; unlike with L3. And even then, if you have a look at all the complexity between the maintaining the interop in the wireless space… it’s amazing it works as well as it does, with so much functionality being conditional.

> "nats are good" video isn't ringing any bells

https://youtu.be/v26BAlfWBm8?feature=shared - it was a bit of a meme back at the time in making the “X fanboy” videos.

> I came up through the Nortel heritage originally

My networking cradle is Netware 4.1, and in those times it was a zoo of protocols anyway. I really liked conceptually the elegance of Nortel management being SNMP-first. Makes me smile hearing all these “API-first!” claims today.

> It was great running into you here

Indeed, nice to meet you too ! :-)

I do a fair bit of lurking. yesterday was a bit of an anomaly since the whole “truncation as a means to do PMTUD” was a subject of my idle ponder for more than a decade, so it struck the chord :-)

"Go buy some weed and smoke it" LOL