You’d think that by now, networks were well enough understood that people would stop making assumptions that we have known, almost since the dawn of networking, to be untrue. Yet as users, developers, and network administrators, we still seem curiously unable to let go of long-held beliefs. Perhaps the best-known collection of mistaken ideas about networks is the eight fallacies of distributed computing. The  network  is reliable Latency  is zero Bandwidth  is infinite The network is  secure Topology  doesn’t change There is one  administrator Transport cost is zero The network is homogeneous Where did this list come from? The list began with four original fallacies (the first four in the list), collected by Bill Joy and Tom Lyon, two of the original eight founders and employees of Sun Microsystems.…