Very informative article. I learned something and got a couple of laughs as a bonus: In addition to the millions of hosts that an internet router has to arbitr

Very informative article. I learned something and got a couple of laughs as a bonus: In addition to the millions of hosts that an internet router has to arbitrate between, it also has its own IP addresses, which people rudely try to interact with all day long. When you ping a router, you're making that poor little 600MHz ARM chip find time to deal with your traffic, not the terabit-per-second monster that it's married to. It has been my experience that easily 75% of people working networking jobs are operating in a state of absolute terror, trying to keep their head above water with problems they don't really understand at all.