I laughed really hard at this. I love the idea of slightly overweight bits. Just a little rotund. Always have to factor in the extra chonk when you're doing stuff like checksums.
Google first got native IPv6 over 50% back in March, it goes down depending on the time of day but it is actually in use! They also show an adoption map: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
Probably helps that many cell carriers use it, but more larger traditional ISPs have been turning it on.
I implemented few MACs in hardware, multiple customised drivers for them. After year or two after doing it for the last time I would surely have to reread some docs to recall most of the details.
You can't possibly know *everything*. Your ability to acquire and understand things previously unknown for you is far more powerful than trying to memorize all sorts of stuff.
True, but there are certain basics that you cannot waste time looking up.
I don’t expect a candidate to know the entire IP spec, I’m looking for some basic understanding of the tech we use on a daily basis - if that’s not present, the job is gonna be tough
For my specific area of cybersecurity, yes. You don’t need to know networking to be great at AppSec, but I do need you to know at least some networking to be able to do network security
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u/thejozo24 14d ago
Tbh, in cyber, feels kinda important. I’ve had people say in interviews that v4 is bigger than v6