[5175] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Internet II is coming...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Thu Oct 10 17:41:24 1996
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:28:47 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>
To: ckbr@snt.bellsouth.com, smd@cesium.clock.org
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Sean Doran <smd@cesium.clock.org> wrote:
>Moreover, you will note that lightweight private lines is not
>something that can be done only by ATM...
It can be done with IPv4 as-is.
Build an IP-in-IP tunnel. Have the gateways doing encapsulation
to slap higher priority on the packets, so there won't be any
loss. Place a rate limitation on traffic entering the tunnel.
Much better than CBR SVC in many ways.
I know of at least one company which plans to offer that kind of
functionality, at wire speed :)
--vadim
