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RE: happy bday IGS-R

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Fri Feb 16 01:57:55 2001

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At 11:51 PM -0500 2/15/01, Paul Lantinga wrote:
>Good thing all this is getting archived - it's cool to know some of what was happening out in the trenches back then. 
>
>My IGS had a sticker on it that said, "Property of Stanford University".  It was the router that UUNET placed at the now non-existent eit.com (Enterprise Integration Technologies) and came bundled with a massive rackmounted Cylink csu/dsu.

Mumble...  The nice folks at UUNET didn't really place
a university-owned IGS there, it was actually came from
EIT/CommerceNet's initial ISP (and title did pass to EIT
when they later switched).

/John

p.s.  Be happy it wasn't a CGS with a wirewrapped 1E1S...
      


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