[15842] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP over SONET considered harmful?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul E. Erkkila)
Mon Mar 23 16:05:17 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 20:23:56 -0500
From: "Paul E. Erkkila" <pee@frontiernet.net>
To: "Kent W. England" <kwe@geo.net>, Alan Hannan <alan@globalcenter.net>,
Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <008001bd5453$b5dcb100$48d82299@kentdesktop>; from Kent W. England on Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 02:57:04PM -0800
On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 02:57:04PM -0800, Kent W. England wrote:
>
> (For those who don't remember the NSFNET "routers" they consisted of an IBM
> RS6000 attached to each of several T1/T3 interfaces, interconnected across a
> FDDI with a route server. Nine RS6000s in all. 200 amp service required. :-)
You can borrow a frame of our SP/2 to recreate it if you'd like :).
Aside from the TTL issue and worrying about interlopers snooping
a layer 2.5 topology. Was there any thought put into a tool such as
traceroute to follow an Tag/Mpls path.
-pee
