[66519] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Thu Jan 15 02:24:06 2004
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 23:23:46 -0800
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Deepak Jain" <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: "Paul" <paul@rusko.us>, <haesu@towardex.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Deepak Jain wrote:
> With a network boot OS for each POP, you can do
> version control much much more easily.
This is seriously flawed, IMHO. I'd encourage my competitors to do it:
after the master image gets corrupted all it takes is a bozo tripping
the right circuit breaker and the entire POP is kaput.
> QOS, priority/custom queueing are all KERNEL/underlying
> OS functions.
This also is flawed, IMHO. What if you want to do queing or QOS based on
BGP?
Michel.
