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Should we know what OSPF is too?
by normie3000 1y ago
Should we know what OSPF is too?
- icedchai 1y agoUnless you're heavily into networking and the ISP space, there's basically no need for you to know about routing protocols.
- pixl97 1y agoDepends if you do any routing on multipath networks. Most people don't so there's that.
- Hikikomori 1y agoECMP? Can do that with static routes. As long as you have more than 1 router you could set up a routing protocol. Or did you mean multipoint?
- unethical_ban 1y agoOpen Shortest Path First (OSPF) is an "internal" routing protocol. Basically, it is a protocol for routers to share routes when all routers are managed by the same organization. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) has the primary purpose of sharing routes between routers managed by different organizations. It can be used within an organization too. It has a lot more control over how and which routes it sends and receives.
- ta1243 1y agoDepends how much you want to know about how networks work. Never ceases to amaze me how ignorant modern software developers are of the underlying technology, I guess that's because I'm from the pre-2010s when "Information Technology" was a general field.
- unethical_ban 1y agoI took some comp-sci and majored in "IT" in the 2000s. Lower level CS did not go over routing protocols, and the IT side never got into compilation, linking, state machines, or pointers.
- edoceo 1y agoMissed pointers!? Surprised me. (Am old)
- ta1243 1y agoIn the 2000 my team had to deal with everything from compilation problems to hardware answering arp answers with fake mac addresses. The team consisted of a wide range of skills and abilities and information obviously leaks. While the DBA didn't need to know anything about OSPF, just by being in the same team as the network person they pick up how things work. Now it seems that teams seem to be far more specialised and there's less cross-specialist learning.
- normie3000 1y ago> Never ceases to amaze me how ignorant modern software developers are of the underlying technology, I guess that's because I'm from the pre-2010s Don't let my ignorance color your opinion of the youth of today.
- goku12 1y agoI have trained people on network technologies, including the younger generation. It never ceases to amaze me how much they can get done without a clue about the underlying technologies. Sometimes it feels like they have some super power, because I can't operate without that knowledge.
- heraldgeezer 1y agoCCNA had OSPF and that was part of my college curriculum in 2012. It depends on what you study. I did more of a sysadmin track, you (probably?) did pure comp sci/dev and would not encounter OSPF in a dev job (probably).