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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: MPLS VPNs or not?
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote: > However, as the edge becomes more > intelligent, the core has to adapt to service it. This often cannot be > done without adding intelligence into the core. This does not mean > that the core should be a participant of the newest and greatest > feature but should know about the established features in order to > optomize overall function. (eg, multicast.. the core knows about it, > but makes no decisions other than routing and replicating > packets... It does what it is told. All the rest is handled at the > edge and at the RP.) Funny that you choose multicast as an example. I always thought that it is a very rotten idea, and a security nightmare, too. Distributed transparent caching does not require injection of any routing information from customers into the core routing, and is a lot more efficient than multicasting (i.e. you can always think of multicasting as a caching with cache retention time set to nearly zero). > These good practices, of course, have to start at the vendors. This is > an area that has been lacking in recent years. (silly defaults, code > that gets pushed into production before its ready because of marketing > schedules, etc.) Recent years? :) ROFL :) --vadim
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