[136399] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lamar Owen)
Wed Feb 2 18:04:26 2011
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 18:03:06 -0500
From: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20110202220433.E0D1A9700A5@drugs.dv.isc.org>
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On Wednesday, February 02, 2011 05:04:33 pm Mark Andrews wrote:
> They didn't fail. They were designed to complement each other. It
> just that somewhere along the way people forgot that.
My engineer brain looks at it this way:
"The better is the enemy of the good." (Voltaire: "Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.").
I remember thinking back in my NetWare 2.x days that this thing called IP just needed the simplicity of IPX, with its native Layer 3 use of the MAC address..... boy, was I naive back then. Bridged ethernet across 56K leased lines with NetWare servers at the other end.... 3Com NetBuilders, and Vitalink's TransLAN III Bridges, I think. Been a long time. The TransLAN III device did the AUI interface to the 10Base5 LAN segments, IIRC.
