[131778] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Sokolov)
Wed Nov 3 12:42:36 2010
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 16:42:24 GMT
From: msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG (Michael Sokolov)
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Gary Baribault <gary@baribault.net> wrote:
> And you live in a cabin in the woods, pedal a generator to get the
> router up and the router is connected to a 56K Dial-up morem?
I have never used those "56K" dial-up modems because they are asymmetric:
it's only "56K" in the downstream direction, and I oppose that on
principle. Prior to switching to my current 384 kbps SDSL (served by a
V.35 CPE device of my own design and make, see earlier messages in this
thread), I was using an always-on (immediate redial on disconnect) analog
modem connection at 31200 bps. One of the 4.3BSD-Quasijarus MicroVAXen
acted as the router, and the PPP implementation in the kernel was written
by me from scratch: the original non-Quasijarus 4.3BSD only had SLIP.
MS
