[87498] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Addressing versus Routing (Was: Deploying IPv6 in a datacenter)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Wed Dec 21 18:29:00 2005
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: <sysadmin@citynetwireless.net>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:01:47 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Thus spake <sysadmin@citynetwireless.net>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:36:00PM +0100, Daniel Roesen 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 constraints
>> place limits (or thinking of L1 systems, you remember CSMA/CD?).
>
> Last time I checked, Ethernet is still CSMA/CD.
Only if you're running half-duplex, which is generally an error condition in
modern networks.
(Unless we're talking WiFi, but I think that mechanism's actually called
CSMA/CA)
S
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