[4083] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: customers and web servers and level one naps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Lothberg)
Thu Sep 5 21:35:52 1996
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 96 3:14:11 MET DST
From: Peter Lothberg <roll@Stupi.SE>
To: Gordon Cook <cook@netaxs.com>
Cc: Stephen Stuart <stuart@pa.dec.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 5 Sep 1996 14:32:29 -0400 (EDT)
[...snip]
> brought there by the customer. therefor should it really make any
> difference to have the web traffic avoid the extra hops of
> traversing the local loop?
The local loop could be dark fiber running FDDI or
OC3 packet-over-sonet, in the latter case the NAP is the bottleneck,
not the local_loop.
> what am I missing?
Hummm.. Tempting...
--Peter
