[36298] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Faster 'Net growth rate raises fears about routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Mon Apr 2 09:14:42 2001
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:03:10 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20010402123105.10829.cpmta@c004.sfo.cp.net>; from sean@donelan.com on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 05:31:05AM -0700
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On Mon, Apr 02, 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> On Mon, 02 April 2001, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > *shakes head* people keep forgetting this. Do you guys also
> > think you can solve the internets problems by adding more bandwidth?
>
> The Internet has long practiced the "just-in-time,"
> "solve-only-the-current-problem" style of network engineering. If
> we can solve the internet's problems for a few more years by adding
> more bandwidth, why do something more complex?
>
> Yeah, OSI/ISO, IPV6, ATM/MPLS etc solve several problems the Internet
> doesn't have yet. But until that time, gun the engine and ram the
> envelope. It may not be elegant, but it gets today's job done.
Because it tends to get people into the "Hrm, can just fudge it with
$BLAH for now" frame of mind, and they stop looking long-term.
Finding the balance between short-term and long-term is currently
my hobby. :-)
Adrian
--
Adrian Chadd "The fact you can download a 100 megabyte file
<adrian@creative.net.au> from half way around the world should be viewed
as an accident and not a right."
-- Adrian Chadd and Bill Fumerola
