[HN Gopher] IP over Spaghetti (2019)
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       IP over Spaghetti (2019)
        
       Author : elisaado
       Score  : 53 points
       Date   : 2023-12-22 10:56 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | brudgers wrote:
       | A noodlie appendage to the internet?
        
       | pantantrant wrote:
       | Oops, I dropped my packets.
        
       | blueflow wrote:
       | Previously: ADSL over wet thread
       | https://hackaday.com/2017/12/14/adsl-robustness-verified-by-...
        
       | BadBadJellyBean wrote:
       | Why? Because why not!
        
         | samschooler wrote:
         | Expanded internet access. Most homes in Sicily as well as
         | around Naples, Italy are still wired using mainly spaghetti and
         | in some cases linguine, as was standard until 1956.
        
           | _joel wrote:
           | It's a bad situation with over farming in some areas since
           | the 50's[1], I'm glad to see the spaghetti reserves are
           | returning.
           | 
           | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU
        
         | sprior wrote:
         | Well since according to that old ad pasta grows on trees it'll
         | be a really cheap networking media.
        
         | dvh wrote:
         | We've been asking for sauce
        
       | fellerts wrote:
       | I recently did something similar - tunneled IP over an RF
       | protocol that was definitely not designed for such nonsense, and
       | was convinced that PPP would be a much more appropriate link
       | protocol. It even handles IP address assignment and encryption
       | out of the box.
       | 
       | Was SLIP chosen for its simplicity here? Genuinely curious.
        
       | NoToP wrote:
       | Packet ravioli
        
       | ggambetta wrote:
       | Impressive! But I'm contractually obligated to point out that
       | "spaghetti" is plural and "spaghettis" is not a thing.
        
         | quasarj wrote:
         | It sounds funnier, though
        
           | ggambetta wrote:
           | Silly hobbitses and their spaghettises, we hates them
        
             | thriftwy wrote:
             | In ADOM you could wish for "seven league bootses" if you
             | wanted to get multiple pairs.
        
         | airstrike wrote:
         | Right on. And "spaghetto" is not really a thing either but I
         | love saying it when I mean a singular "noodle"
        
         | dclowd9901 wrote:
         | I believe the plural is spaghettipodes
        
       | wiredfool wrote:
       | This really needs to be part of the it's not stupid if it works
       | thread.
        
         | londons_explore wrote:
         | With a ping of 60,000 milliseconds and a 0.00004 Mbit/s data
         | rate, I question the use of the term "works".
        
       | heads wrote:
       | Each packet is a whole meal -- usually 1500 bites!
       | 
       | Also, if you find plain spaghetti too bland then bites 12 through
       | 15 give you the sauce address.
       | 
       | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/IPv4_Pac...
        
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