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Re: routing meltdown

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Bass)
Fri Aug 11 17:32:37 1995

From: Tim Bass <bass@linux.silkroad.com>
To: avg@sprint.net (Vadim Antonov)
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 17:26:38 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: jon@branch.com, smd@icp.net, yakov@cisco.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199508112041.QAA09633@titan.sprintlink.net> from "Vadim Antonov" at Aug 11, 95 04:41:01 pm

> 
> >What you want is something that isn't the Internet or even
> >a hop-by-hop destination-based connectionless packet network,
> >but rather something akin to X.25 or ATM.
> 
> >	Sean.
> 
> ...which requires even more state kept in gateways, and
> therefore more CPU required to maintain that state.
> 
> Film at 11.
> 
> --vadim
> 

CPUs are cheap.  One 133 MHz Pentium cost less than either of
us make in a day.....  In six months, even cheaper.

Tim


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