[10433] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Another UUNET Explanation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Leong)
Tue Jul 1 22:32:20 1997
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 19:30:40 -0700
From: leong@inversenet.com (John Leong)
Reply-To: leong@inversenet.com
To: Robert Bowman <rob@elite.exodus.net>
CC: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>, nanog@merit.edu
At 05:00 PM 07/01/97 -0700, Robert Bowman wrote:
>
> layer 2 vs. layer 3
>
Kind of a weird one in a way given that FR has internally its own Layer
2 as well as [stripped down] Layer 3 ... not unlike the [very short]
time when ARAPANET was routed over X.25 many moons ago. Lots of
overhead by this funny layer 2 (error correction, flow control the
work). On the other head, if it works .....
One thing I am curious about .... does anyone actually uses SVC with FR
for use as an underlying network for IP transport? If so, I am curious
as to the pros/cons especially with respect to connection establishment
/ tear down overhead.
Regards,
John Leong
