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come on lets lose some packets dad!
son…the pigeons didn’t make it
is this loss
My Profressor at univesity went over the Avian protocol in a lecture just so he could put a question about it on one of our exams.
The RFC also contains an ascii art of a shitting bird with a comment "Carriers in the queue too long may leave log entries"
That is the IP over Avian Carrier with Quality of Service RFC: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549.html
RFC 1149: Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on Avian Carrier is the original: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149
there is also RFC 6214, which updates it for IPv6 support: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6214
I'm the firewall and I'm deliberately dropping IPoAC packages here. The coyote then comes to recycle them.
Too bad that image is no longer there
Wouldn't it be better to use unladen swallow. I heard they can carry a coconut over large distances.
Imagine explaining this kind of packet loss to your boss.
If you use sd cards, the transmission rates are pretty fantastic. It's lossy, and the latency sucks, but you can get 20TB per pigeon (sd cards are 5g ish, can hold 2tb max, and pigeons can carry 50gish of weight)
Much faster than your gigabit ethernet over short distances!
Years ago a journalists sent a pigeon with an sd card to race an isp in South Africa. The pigeon won.
New YouTube tutorial just dropped on addressing Wingspan Load Time race conditions.
one pigeon per packet ?
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LMAO ded
Missed the opportunity to call it a Pecket loss
Joke all you want, but having lived through the 90's in a rural area, pigeons would have been faster than what I subscribed to through america online.
In some places, Pigeon Mail is still faster.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/pigeon-still-faster-internet
I seem to recall this being based on an RFC that was submitted as an April fools joke.
Birds aren't real
Anything related to seeds on my torrent transfer? That would explain why it takes forever
Kabutar jaja
Birds farm
The message broker is one mad guy on the rooftop of the company taking care of hundreds of birds
Id like to see it pass through the firewall
A company in South Africa proved that Pigeon Mail was faster than their ADSL by flying a pigeon with a 4GB file to the destination - arriving a full 4 hours before the internet download completed.
Birds aren't real
loss?
The Avian protocol is unironically a great teaching tool for networking concepts. Plus, who doesn't love imagining pigeons as high-speed data carriers?
When transferring large amounts of data a bird with a USB stick can be a whole lot faster than fiber optics. It’s not even that stupid.
Perhaps a car or a drone might be a preferrable alternative in an enterprise setting. But yes.
Wait until you hear about the aws Snowmobile (sadly discontinued)
– Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981
There’s always a relevant Xkcd
Amazon does that with trucks of storages to move between data centers
Not anymore afaik
They used to. AWS Snowmobile.
tcp vs udp
Yeah I remember my networking prof telling us how our uni had to move a tone of data from a backup server after a cyber attack.
We were meant to come up with good solutions how to transport these data packages.
The solution (and what our uni had done) was cars xD
Not if you add the time it takes to copy the data
What if it's just 1 bird tho
It was done in south Africa to demonstrate their crappy speeds.
https://www.theregister.com/2009/09/10/pigeon_v_broadband/