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Genuine related question - what is learning TCP/IP good for? When is it useful to know?

• vb6sp6 6y ago
  1. When you need to communicate across the network and don't have a library to do it for you. 2. Troubleshooting 3. Insights. Knowing how things work can sometimes give you big insights into potential solutions or pitfalls to avoid
  • tanelpoder 6y ago
    Additionally, tuning/optimization when dealing with high-latency networks, possibly with more frequent packet loss than you'd get in a local data center (think data replication from Hong-Kong to London in a global bank, etc).