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- From: gwydion@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mercenary Programmer)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: The IRC router's Lament
- Date: 12 Dec 1992 12:40:42 GMT
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
- Lines: 37
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- Attributed-To: Andrew K Bressen <bressen@ground.cs.columbia.edu>
- Originator: gwydion@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu
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- To route, or not to route; that is the question:
- Whether 'tis nobler on the net to suffer
- The pings and arpage of outragous contention,
- Or to make greps against a sea of packets,
- And, by subnetting, end them. FDDI, to bus
- No more, and by a ring to say we end
- The collisions and the thousand packet drops
- That CSMA is heir to 'tis a consummation
- Devoutly to be wished. FDDI, token ring.
- Token ring, perchance to DQDB. Ay, there's the rub,
- For that speedy net where ATM may come
- When we have shuffled off to double coils
- Might give us loss. There's the respect
- That makes calamity of systems implementation,
- For who would bear the whips and scorns of irate users,
- Th'parameters' wrong, LanMan's contumely,
- The pangs of vaporware, the CCITT's delay,
- The insolence of Microsoft, and the spurns
- That patient network managers of th'unworthy takes,
- When he himself might his quietus make
- With a bare wire? Who would these fardels bear,
- To grunt and swear at border gateway protocol
- But that the dread of OSI,
- The undiscovered country from whose bourn
- No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
- And makes us rather bear those ills we have
- Than fly to others that we know not of?
- Thus banyans do make switches of us all,
- And thus the native queue of transmission
- Is cycled over with the subnet casts of MOP,
- And enterprise architectures of many bits and SONET
- With this regard the carriers turn awry,
- Because they push SMDS. Software, now,
- The fair Sybase 4.8A! dbtemp, in thy horizons
- Be all my sins renumbered.
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