[6462] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Exchanges that matter...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec H. Peterson)
Sun Dec 8 16:29:11 1996
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 16:25:43 -0500
From: chuckie@panix.com (Alec H. Peterson)
To: nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton)
Cc: joe@Navigist.Com (Joe Rhett), smd@cesium.clock.org (Sean Doran),
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961208112133.9654A-100000@netrail.net>; from "Nathan Stratton" on Dec 8, 1996 11:22:20 -0500
On Dec 8, 1996, Nathan Stratton wrote:
>
> At the Atlanta-NAP we offer full duplex FDDI, why not try to get MFS to do
> it? Cisco now has a full duplex FDDI card, so you can do 200 Mbs into the
> NAP.
No, you can do 100Mbps _into_ the peering point, but you can also pull
100Mbps out of it at the same time.
But I agree, it would be nice if MFS enabled full duplex FDDI on their
gigaswitches. Unfortunately, I think only 75xx series routers can use
the full duplex FDDI card, so people will have to upgrade routers. I
could be wrong about this, though.
However, this does not address the problem of the peering point itself
getting overloaded (as has happened at MAE-east). MFS seems to have
moved all of the big traffic connections to the first gigaswitch,
which has actually made things much better. But this is only a
temporary solution at best.
Alec
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