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I wouldn't necessarily "dismiss" somebody, but knowing about simple tools is a proxy in my mind for experience level. I can tailor my communication appropriatel
by EvanAnderson 6y ago
I wouldn't necessarily "dismiss" somebody, but knowing about simple tools is a proxy in my mind for experience level. I can tailor my communication appropriately when I have some idea of experience level. If I know I can't say to somebody plugged-in to my laptop directly w/ a patch cable "Give me the last two octets of your APIPA address and start listening on port 31338 piped out to a file" then I know that there are a lot of other tasks that I'll need to break down in minute detail.
- johnisgood 6y agoOkay, you are right. I would not dismiss them either for this alone, I would first perhaps ask them why they think that it is the best option, or what alternatives there are, and so forth. > Give me the last two octets of your APIPA address Is not APIPA Windows-only, by the way? I can definitely give you two octets of an IP address through using awk, sed, or using C and bitwise operations. Do I pass? :D
- EvanAnderson 6y agoAPIPA was standardized as IPv4LL in RFC 3927[1]. I never remember the acronym IPv4LL-- I always remember APIPA instead. It was a Microsoft construct, but it has fairly broad OS support now, to my knowledge. [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3927 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3927