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0 pointsuaas3y ago0 comments

What is layer 8?

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Layer 8 load balancing is humans opening and closing browser tabs, I presume?

__d3y ago

Layer 8 is generally called the Political Layer.

They must've meant Layer 7 / Application Layer. There is no Layer 8 in OSI model (unless they're talking about a different model)

kodah3y ago

I did mean Layer 7. I've been calling it Layer 8 for a long time now, lmao. Not sure how that got mixed up and made permanent.

There are alternative/extended models out there. Perhaps you ran into one of those?

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