[6981] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Info on MAE-EAST
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Tue Jan 14 18:25:32 1997
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: stephen@clark.net (Stephen Balbach)
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 18:16:38 -0500 (EST)
Cc: tstroup@optical.fibernet.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970114175942.7169B-100000@bisco.clark.net> from "Stephen Balbach" at Jan 14, 97 06:05:09 pm
> There are lots of 7513's so I doubt a 7507 would be a problem - the only
> restriction on equipment is no computers on the MAE EAST LAN for security
> reasons. Given the ability to bridge MAE EAST I'm not sure how that can be
> enforced. And Netscape has some mighty big SGI's promintently displayed as
> you walk in. Oh and another restrictiuon should you ever need it -- to
> run a $5 piece of ethernet cable 10' from one rack to another (assuming the
> two racks are diffrent companies eg. a cross connect) is $2000/month.
>
> .stb
Well, you can tell by MAC addresses or by broadcast-pings what IP addresses
are hooked up to the bridged fabric at any FDDI/ethernet/bridged exchange...
I think it's abused more @ MAE-West than @ MAE-East.
Avi
