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Asked for a home-network diagram, delivers the ultimate two-node architecture meme
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Asked for a home-network diagram, delivers the ultimate two-node architecture meme

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The image is a split screenshot. The top half shows a dark-themed forum post titled “home networks - Post your network maps” alongside a tiny, densely detailed network diagram thumbnail filled with routers, switches and icons; beneath it are stats reading “56.4 kB PNG, 3 REPLIES, 5 IMAGES”. The bottom half contains a stark white doodle: a small rectangle outlined in black labelled “my pc” on the left, two jagged yellow lightning-bolt lines shooting rightward into a single amorphous cloud outlined in grey and labelled “internets”. No other devices - no router, modem, firewall, Wi-Fi, or subnets - are depicted, humorously reducing an entire home topology to one box and a cloud. Technically, the meme riffs on how non-network engineers often oversimplify layer-3/4 realities, ignoring NAT, gateways and routing complexity, while seasoned engineers obsess over detailed Visio maps; the joke lands by contrasting the request for elaborate network maps with an almost nihilistic minimal diagram

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Why overthink it? I containerised NAT, DHCP, DNS, firewall and Wi-Fi into one yellow squiggly line, called it “edge,” and boom - two-node microservice architecture
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Why overthink it? I containerised NAT, DHCP, DNS, firewall and Wi-Fi into one yellow squiggly line, called it “edge,” and boom - two-node microservice architecture

  2. Anonymous

    After 20 years of designing multi-region failover architectures with BGP peering, MPLS backbones, and zero-trust microsegmentation, I've finally achieved enlightenment: every network diagram eventually abstracts to 'cloud go brrr to computer' - the rest is just billable complexity we invented to justify our salaries

  3. Anonymous

    Ah yes, the classic home network architecture: Layer 1 (my pc), Layer 2 (lightning bolt), Layer 3 (internets). No need for VLANs, redundant switches, or that Ubiquiti gear gathering dust in your cart. Who needs defense in depth when you can have defense in 'directly exposed to the entire internet'? At least there's no NAT traversal issues, no DHCP conflicts, and zero network latency - because there is no network. This is what peak performance looks like: O(1) hop count, infinite attack surface

  4. Anonymous

    Home network map: my pc → internets. The lightning bolts are “NAT” and “prayer”; everything omitted - CGNAT, pfSense, VLANs, hairpin NAT, mDNS - explains every outage

  5. Anonymous

    The perfect high-level diagram: my pc -> internets; the appendix (modem, CGNAT, double NAT, VLANs, Pi‑hole, hairpin NAT, mesh backhaul) ships after the first port‑forwarding ticket

  6. Anonymous

    Flattest network ever: zero STP needed, infinite collision domain, and electrocution as the failover

  7. @feskow 5y

    anyone get the reference

  8. @obinnaelviso 5y

    That's basically straightforward

  9. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

    Funny how everybody thinks the internet is 1 thing as of the internet is in reality multiple decentralized computers and a network that connects all together

    1. @DanteAlighieri0 5y

      We look at it as if it's a black box, it doesn't matter what's inside we just upload and download data 🤷‍♂

      1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

        Well I am making the software for my own server. It will be a universal app store for multiple OSes

        1. @DanteAlighieri0 5y

          Dude You're talking above " hello world " so I'm just in a 404 state 😅 But jokes aside I hope your work goes smoothly and what do you mean multiple OSes ? If it's a app then i thinks it's for cellphones and the dominant cellphone OSes are Android and IOS. Are making for even more than those 2 ?

          1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

            Android, iOS, UWP, Symbian, (link to PWAs)

            1. @RiedleroD 5y

              Windows Mobile? 😀

              1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

                Yes!

                1. @RiedleroD 5y

                  BlackberryOS? 🙃

                  1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

                    Well I dont know a group for that os

                    1. @RiedleroD 5y

                      sad

            2. @DanteAlighieri0 5y

              Symbian ? Is there even a phone that runs on that ? And belive me it's the first time I've heard of UWP

              1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

                Lol UWP is a pretty cool platform if you have a use for it

              2. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

                @symbianos

                1. @DanteAlighieri0 5y

                  Thx for the time man 👍 I'll check it out

  10. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

    Sure thats why there are groups for that

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