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> > 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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