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At 01:49 AM 7/2/97 -0400, Sean M. Doran wrote: > >The idea is to conserve the amount of work any given >router has to do with respect to convergence, since that's >a poorly-scalable hot-spot. > >In the past the hot-spot may have been the amount of >traffic through a box, such that so few fat interfaces >could be used that it was economically compelling to move >that particular load into some sort of L2 switch and take >the lumps wrt inherent routing scalability problems and >the lack of conservation of configuration effort. > >Since there are existence proofs that this hot spot is now >no longer economically insurmountable, and some much >crunchier boxes are on the near horizon, the argument for >using smart L2 fabrics at all is becoming weaker. Sean, We're involved in a discussion on [email protected] about whether the Internet can afford to have a bunch of small multi-homed ISPs connected to the net with PI /19s. IMHO, there is not adequate participation by folks of your level of expertise. Would you join the discussion please? While I suspect you are subscribed to the list, I'll be glad to forward recent posts if you so desire. I appreciate your consideration of the matter and your time. Thanks, Larry --- Larry Vaden, founder and CEO help-desk 903-813-4500 Internet Texoma, Inc. direct 903-870-0365 <http://www.texoma.net> fax 903-868-8551 bringing the real Internet to rural Texomaland pager 903-867-6571
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