[182834] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sun Aug 2 18:33:45 2015
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Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 07:30:46 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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>> so it is heavily routed using L3 on the core 'switches'? makes a lot
>> of sense.
> Lots of switches will happily forward layer 3 packets.
and a lot of so-called switches will happily *route* at L3, which is i
think the point. in this case, heavily subnetting a LAN, it makes a lot
of sense.
otoh, i did not believe in the fad of using 65xxs at the bgp global
edge. while it was temporarily cheap, two years later not a lot of folk
had that many boats which needed anchoring.
randy
