[12289] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: too many routes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian R. Kim)
Thu Sep 11 19:37:17 1997
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 19:33:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@blackrose.org>
To: Richard Irving <rirving@onecall.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <34185175.2DB3@onecall.net>
On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Richard Irving wrote:
> Oh, 2 things come to mind, my variability throughout an ATM cloud is
> greatly reduced versus a routing cloud, a cell requires WAY less time to
> cross a switches backplane, versus a packet through a router. And
> seriuosly less time to determine where to send it...
Hmm... I thought we went over this fallacy not that long ago on NANOG.
Please look up the past NANOG thread with subject _Internet Backbone
Index_.
-dorian
