I said something like Layer 2 switching did for Ethernet. Read. Do you understand the OSI model to know that switches are layer 2 and routers are layer 3?
I'm talking about something akin to what layer 2 did for Ethernet passing frames/MAC addresses.
I agree, I think we're talking about the same thing here from different angles.
Yes made to learn the 7 layer model that no one uses anyway when i was at Uni along with sliding window CSMCD and some
token ring networks plus lots more that i could not wait to forget.
I get that MAC is used only over one hoop and TCP is end to end connection and UDP is connection less plus
ports and well known names and that I don't like Ipv6 needed for IoT and M2M but i cannot stop it.
256,256,256,256,256 =IPv5 would had been fine with me because i don't want my toaster telling my
boss what time i got up in the morning
Apart from that, I know nothing more than i need to know about networks to get by but Netgear
with it's hardware and CIA/NSA back-doors are not real going to welcomed to the party I don't think
and if they come then I am leaving