[4261] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: customers and web servers and level one naps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Srinivasarao Mulugu)
Tue Sep 10 12:57:30 1996
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 12:53:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Srinivasarao Mulugu <smulugu@sprint.net>
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960905123739.4327I-100000@sidhe.memra.com>
Micahel,
Have you had much experience, having the servers connect directly on to a
level-2 device like a FDDI-to Ethernet (e.g. catalyst) connector ? and it
security implications ?
-Mulugu
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On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Michael Dillon wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Stephen Stuart wrote:
>
> > > Second: allowing such a customer, or an NSP, to attach web services
> > > directly to the FDDI ring at the NAP.
> > >
> > > PAIX is doing this. As far as I know the other major interchange provider
> > > are not. I am wondering why.
> >
> > No, Gordon, PAIX IS NOT DOING THIS. I told you quite explicitly that
> > the only hosts connected to the PAIX layer 2 network (GIGAswitch/FDDI,
> > not FDDI ring) are ISP routers, just like all the other IX networks.
>
> *sigh* OK, so PA stands for Palo Alto while I assumed it stood for
> Pennsylvania...
>
> Anyway, from the point of view of network engineering it makes a lot of
> sense for the customer machines to be kept off the central exchange media.
> But from every other point of view, the fact that there is a router
> between the customer equipment and the layer 2 exchange media is
> irrelevant as it has no negative impact on anything.
>
> Did I misinterpret Gordon's question as being a higher level question
> about which XP's allow customer servers to have high-speed access to the
> XP? Said high-speed access could just as easily be a Gigaswitch/FDDI
> behind the ISP's router.
>
> Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting
> Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049
> http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
>
