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Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Aug 29 12:57:20 2001

From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>, nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 00:51:31 +0800
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>> If the size or the dynamicism of the global routing system grows
>> for a sustained period faster than the price/performance curve of
>> EITHER memory OR processing power, the Internet will FAIL again.
> This is great FUD.

no.  this is the wisdom of folk who lived through it and actually did
it, not those who blow clueless smoke on mailing lists about it.

<plonk>!

randy

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