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Re: Agenda for next NANOG

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Doran)
Tue Sep 3 18:54:54 1996

To: curtis@ans.net
Cc: salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo), michael@memra.com, nanog@merit.edu
From: Sean Doran <smd@chops.icp.net>
Date: 	03 Sep 1996 18:34:26 -0400
In-Reply-To: Curtis Villamizar's message of Fri, 30 Aug 1996 23:43:36 -0400

Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net> writes:

> This is an interesting problem and actually close to solvable at the
> IP level.  I'm sure you are familiar with PPP LQM.  Take out the PPP
> part and keep the LQM packet format and local storage.  Keep one LQM
> struct per ARP entry on a bcast or nbma interface (such as an ATM
> NAP).  Count packets used by each ARP entry and update SNMP and the
> LQM entry as you would in PPP LQM.  Occasionally (once a second is
> fine) send an LQM packet summarizing what has been sent.

This is a very good idea.   You might want to hand it over
to your vendor before I hand it over to mine.  :-)

	Sean.

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