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Re: customers and web servers and level one naps

  • From: Stephen Stuart
  • Date: Thu Sep 05 16:29:12 1996

> > Second:  allowing such a customer, or an NSP, to attach web services
> > directly to the FDDI ring at the NAP.
> > 
> > PAIX is doing this.  As far as I know the other major interchange provider
> > are not.  I am wondering why.
> 
> Umm, they were, shall we say, unclear.  I heard from one PAIX source that
> they would give IPs to hosts (non-routers), but another source (at ISPCon)
> said that they wouldn't.
> 
> I'd like to know the answer to this (re: PAIX.  No other exchange that I 
> know of gives IPs for use by non-routers that aren't RA machines).  It's 
> well-know nthat ploth has a host on the Sprintlink && Pennsauken 
> gigaswitches @ Pennsauken, but I'm quite sure he doesn't run web services 
> on it :)

The only devices for which I have or ever will assign IP addresses on
the PAIX network are ISP routers, route servers (2), and layer 2
devices that have IP addresses for SNMP management. If you heard
anything different from anyone else, they're wrong.

Stephen
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