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Re: CIDR FAQ

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John G. Scudder)
Tue Aug 15 20:45:36 1995

Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:43:39 -0400
To: Nicolas Williams <nmw@news.ios.com>
From: jgs@aads.net (John G. Scudder)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu

At 7:23 PM 8/15/95, Nicolas Williams wrote:
[...]
>Colocated BGP4 "proxies" (I'm still not sure what to call these,
>anyone?)
[...]

How about RCP (routing control processor)?  And you could call the
forwarding box a PSP (packet switching processor).

Unless of course IBM has trademarked these or something.

--John

P.S.:  For nostalgia's sake the RCP and PSP could talk over a 4 Mbit token-ring.



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