[87496] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Addressing versus Routing (Was: Deploying IPv6 in a datacenter)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Wed Dec 21 18:11:59 2005
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:11:17 -0500
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "Daniel Roesen" <dr@cluenet.de>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 04:43:58PM -0600,=20
> sysadmin@citynetwireless.net wrote:
> > > Really? Where are the limits of BGP? Can you show me any numbers?
> > > You'd be the first. I'm not aware of any protocol inherent scaling
> > > brickwalls like with other protocols where certain timing=20
> constraints
> > > place limits (or thinking of L1 systems, you remember CSMA/CD?).
> >=20
> > Last time I checked, Ethernet is still CSMA/CD.
>=20
> Correct. And there you have minimum frame spacing requirements (IFG)
> and (e.g. with 10Base2 networks) minimum distance between stations
> attached to the bus to allow CSMA/CD work correctly.
Interframe gap has no dependancy on station vector. The dependancy
for CSMA/CD was bits on the wire and the alogorithm backed off until
it was free to transmit.=20
Are you talking about something else?
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