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Re: Why doesn't BGP...

  • From: Michael Dillon
  • Date: Mon Nov 11 14:52:45 1996

On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:

> > Sort of like the cruise control in my car.  The car starts going too
> > fast and it *eases* off.  The car starts going too slow and it adds
> > a *little* more throttle.
> > 
> > My cruise control works quite well.   So could routers.
> 
> Your cruise control doesn't have to communicate with 80 other cruise
> controls, each of which communicates with 80 other cruise controls,
> each of which then has to decide whether they have to change any
> course or acceleration settings based on the updated info.

CSMA/CD  :-)


Michael Dillon                   -               ISP & Internet Consulting
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