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Re: Addressing versus Routing (Was: Deploying IPv6 in a datacenter)

  • From: Stephen Sprunk
  • Date: Wed Dec 21 18:29:38 2005 
Thus spake <[email protected]>

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:36:00PM +0100, Daniel Roesen wrote:

Really? Where are the limits of BGP? Can you show me any numbers?
You'd be the first. I'm not aware of any protocol inherent scaling
brickwalls like with other protocols where certain timing constraints
place limits (or thinking of L1 systems, you remember CSMA/CD?).

Last time I checked, Ethernet is still CSMA/CD.
Only if you're running half-duplex, which is generally an error condition in modern networks.

(Unless we're talking WiFi, but I think that mechanism's actually called CSMA/CA)

S

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