[41117] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Aug 29 21:44:29 2001
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>
Cc: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:43:58 +0800
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>> Sorry, Leo is correct. Technologies he outlined are only the tip of the
>> ice-berg of what *isn't* being exploited by the router vendors.
>
> Your average PC doesn't have to be NEBS-compliant, doesn't have to work
> more than 24 hours w/o crashing, and doesn't have quite strict constraints
> on power & heat dissipation. It doesn't have to have redundant power, and
> its components are readily available and cheap (those are produced in
> _large_ batches).
i think mo said something like "can we not discuss building global
infrastructure using home appliances?"
randy
