[6083] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why doesn't BGP...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Mon Nov 11 14:27:43 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 11:02:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199611111435.JAA29997@access.netaxs.com>
On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:
> > Sort of like the cruise control in my car. The car starts going too
> > fast and it *eases* off. The car starts going too slow and it adds
> > a *little* more throttle.
> >
> > My cruise control works quite well. So could routers.
>
> Your cruise control doesn't have to communicate with 80 other cruise
> controls, each of which communicates with 80 other cruise controls,
> each of which then has to decide whether they have to change any
> course or acceleration settings based on the updated info.
CSMA/CD :-)
Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
