[3324] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AGIS Route Flaps Interrupting its Peering?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Fri Jul 5 17:37:34 1996
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jul 1996 16:41:36 BST."
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Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 14:32:39 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Hear, hear! Bridging is a bad idea, whether for LAN extension or home ISDN
users or simulation of point to point links in WANs. I have one additional
(minor) data point to add to Sean's message:
> and some FDDI/Ethernet bridges resemble roach motels:
> frames check in but they don't check out.
I have a DEC PEswitch-900 in my own little "hub" hanging off of DEC's Palo
Alto exchange. I have absolutely no complaints about this box; I have
pushed 50Mb/s through it (it has a FDDI and 6 10BaseT's) without dropping
anything (all my TCP timers on the test hosts remained unchanged, and
nothing was lost or reordered on minimum spaced back to back UDP spams,
either).
My PEswitch-900 is the "Personal Ethernet" version of this product; it only
allows a small number (8, perhaps?) of end stations per 10BaseT port. So
if you were gluing together a bunch of moderately sized LANs, you'd need
the more expensive version (probably called a DECswitch-900-EF but don't
take my word for it if details matter). On the other hand, the only
reasonable (IMHO) way to use one of these is with one host per port.
