[13367] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hello, MAE-East?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Mon Nov 3 21:20:28 1997
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 21:52:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: Mike Gibbs <gibbs@servint.com>
cc: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95q.971103153934.6090A-100000@athens.servint.com>
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Mike Gibbs wrote:
> According to the techs at MFS, the NEW design is five gigaswitches
> plugging into one gigaswitch. No one will be plugged into this switch,
> that is giga6. The problem accuring at Mae-East now sits on its hardware.
> With this design, giga6 must switch more traffic then its backplane can
> handle. This causes packet-loss, and annoyed customers. DECs switches
> seem to have a limited spanning-tree, so they can't have two gigaswitchs
> for bridges and split the load between them. Again, this is what I got
> from talking to their techs. Supposedly DEC and MFS are working these
> problems out.
I agree it is a bad design, but it should be able to handle the traffic. I
check the DEC www page, and they say the backplane can handle 3.6 gb/s.
-Nathan
