[40981] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: multi-homing fixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Tue Aug 28 03:23:26 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "'Majdi S. Abbas'" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>,
Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: 'David Schwartz' <davids@webmaster.com>,
Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>,
Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 00:23:18 -0700
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|> From: Majdi S. Abbas [mailto:msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com]
|> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 11:38 PM
|>
|> On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:57:29PM -0700, Roeland Meyer wrote:
|> > BTW, randy's position is rather strange, coming from
|> someone that used to
|> > support the FidoNet community, by being the FTSC chair.
|>
|> Correct me if I'm wrong, since it's been a few years,
|> but FidoNet address aggregate quite nicely, don't they?
Yes, but the packets were rather large (messages) and they did per-hop
routing. Some nets practiced heavy redundant links (Colorado Springs),
depending on the dup-killer to strain out the cruft. Least-cost routing
takes on a whole new meaning there.
