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Micahel, Have you had much experience, having the servers connect directly on to a level-2 device like a FDDI-to Ethernet (e.g. catalyst) connector ? and it security implications ? -Mulugu ========================================================= Mulugu Srinivasarao Tel : 703/904-2013 SprintLink Engineering Fax : 703/904-2292 Sprint, GSD Bldg. On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Michael Dillon wrote: > On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Stephen Stuart wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > No, Gordon, PAIX IS NOT DOING THIS. I told you quite explicitly that > > the only hosts connected to the PAIX layer 2 network (GIGAswitch/FDDI, > > not FDDI ring) are ISP routers, just like all the other IX networks. > > *sigh* OK, so PA stands for Palo Alto while I assumed it stood for > Pennsylvania... > > Anyway, from the point of view of network engineering it makes a lot of > sense for the customer machines to be kept off the central exchange media. > But from every other point of view, the fact that there is a router > between the customer equipment and the layer 2 exchange media is > irrelevant as it has no negative impact on anything. > > Did I misinterpret Gordon's question as being a higher level question > about which XP's allow customer servers to have high-speed access to the > XP? Said high-speed access could just as easily be a Gigaswitch/FDDI > behind the ISP's router. > > Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting > Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 > http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [email protected] > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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