[19472] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE ATM and distant connections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Mon Sep 14 16:37:57 1998
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: ams@staff.sci.fi (Aleksi Suhonen)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 06:32:19 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199809140757.KAA15963@troi.sci.fi> from "Aleksi Suhonen" at Sep 14, 98 10:57:37 am
Been there, Done that. The IEPG web page (currently not visable)
has the earliest version I know of, the dGIX (circa 1991-1992).
This idea was implemented in the NSF ATM NAPs (AADS and PB) in
1994-1995. These continue to operate.
The largest problem is where there is apparent layer 3 reachability
but the NLRI (Network Layer Reachability) is fragmented.
The easiest way to "fix" this is to ensure that there is a full mesh
in the ATM cloud. Doing so is not always trivial.
--bill
