[4081] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: customers and web servers and level one naps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Lothberg)
Thu Sep 5 21:18:38 1996
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 96 3:09:52 MET DST
From: Peter Lothberg <roll@Stupi.SE>
To: Gordon Cook <cook@netaxs.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 5 Sep 1996 13:35:07 -0400 (EDT)
> Second: allowing such a customer, or an NSP, to attach web services
> directly to the FDDI ring at the NAP.
This is a security problem, if there is no switch in the middle and
each host are induvidually attached to the switch.
Next problem is that a host needs to knew what router to send a
packet to for a particular destination, so either it points
default at one of the NAP routers, and packets traverse the NAP
twice, or the host impleements BGP and has a full set of routes.
So host at a the NAP media should be 'strongly not recomended'.
An interesting scenario is, a router with two FDDI interfaces, one to
the host and one to the NAP. It now comes down to if it's worth
the real_estate to have the host there.
--Peter
