[973] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: links on the blink (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Thu Nov 9 23:43:43 1995
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 21:51:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9511100346.AA32680@wisdom.home.vix.com>
On Thu, 9 Nov 1995, Paul A Vixie wrote:
> sky can save us. This time, gentlemen, the calvary is not coming. As much
> as I despise the topic Matt and Vadim have been discussing today, I think
> we're looking at some kind of load sharing. Probably static load sharing
> with no adaptation to traffic type or flow, since as Jerry pointed out a
> few weeks back, that's a slippery slope and a lot of people have died on it.
By "load sharing" I presume you mean some sort of TDM where you have n
real lines and every n'th packet goes out on any particular line. I
suppose this would be even simpler to do at the byte level if we assume
that all n lines go to the same endpoint.
Or do you mean something different?
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