[86687] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the iab simplifies internet architecture!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Mon Nov 14 15:27:39 2005
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:27:07 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <F38F9E6C-0D6F-464E-899B-FBC2F9D88A35@cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:53:04AM -0800, Fred Baker wrote:
> I believe that it is attributable to John Hart, Vitalink, late
> 1980's. If he didn't coin it, he sure quoted it a lot.
>
> Radia would have said something more like "bridge within a campus and
> route between them", I suspect.
>
> On Nov 11, 2005, at 1:36 PM, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
>
> > "bridge where you can, route where you must." -- i forgot where
> >this came from? Radia?
there was 3com inthere somewhere too. (fond memories of Vitalink and a
globally bridged network. ARP storms have a special place in my heart)
the counter phrase was, of course, "route where you can, bridge where you must".
--bill
