On 29 Sep 2013, at 23:15, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: THe OSI model is pretty much a load of BS. 3 layers can be condensed to about 1 and one of them just doesn't exist. I never understood what the hell the session layer was for anyway - I figure anything above layer 3 (transport) should be handled by apps, not by 4 layers of network stack.