[33335] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Jan 9 04:08:45 2001
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Cc: deen@slt.lk, nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 00:57:54 -0800
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> It is merely that an l3 exchange point over an l2 shared medium
> is a bad idea.
agreed. the problem is that it's the best idea we've come up with so far
for folk who are willing to have a lot of small peers.
one of the problems folk like we have is not wanting to manage (i.e.
monitor, tune, ...) the bandwidth to 75 small peers at a meeting place.
we just want to plug one wire in (well, two for redundancy) and let the
packets fly.
of course, for the 10+ big-bandwidth peers, multiple point-to-point
interfaces is the current practice. and it is here that we have hope that
aggregated layer one may pay off. yet to be seen, of course.
randy
