[3595] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sell shell accounts?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Tue Jul 23 19:12:27 1996
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 19:03:08 -0400
To: salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo)
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: freedman@netaxs.com, nanog@merit.edu
At 05:06 PM 7/23/96 -0500, Tim Salo wrote:
>
>The desire for a full mesh of VCs between routers becomes more compelling
>if you have more than three routers. The diagram is left as an exercise
>to the reader; I rather dislike having to draw in ASCII.
>
>Note that the two paths between A and C, (directly versus via B), seem
>to take distinctly different paths. (Perhaps, I missed your point).
>
Perhaps I missed your point.
Tim, I could've sworn that you had been following the IETF ION WG
mailing list, where this has been discussed on hundreds of occasions.
I hesitate to even mention this on NANOG (I really don't want to
re-hash this on this list), but I can't hold my tongue.
The scalability of an ATM network where each end-point is fully meshed
to all other end-points decreases in direct proportion to the number
of end-points. This is not so much a layer 2 problem, per se, but rather
the ability to maintain functional routing (convergence, et al.) in a
fully meshed network topology.
This does not scale.
- paul
