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- From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.cell-relay
- Subject: Re: Future of IP routers
- Message-ID: <3466@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 22:27:10 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.092945.4663@ccsun.strath.ac.uk> <3445@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1992Aug27.174448.28143@fokus.gmd.de>
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- In article <1992Aug27.174448.28143@fokus.gmd.de> icarus!mbu@fokus.gmd.de (M. Burak) writes:
-
- >Do you really think that TCP/IP over B-ISDN will be the real challenge? As far
- >as I know, TCP/IP allows you a throughput of 28 Mbit/s over a 140 Mbit/s
- >network.
-
- Gee! You must have seen a very badly designed or tuned or implemented
- network. I've seen experimental results MUCH MUCH better than that
- for IP over ATM.
-
- > I don't think that this will be the ultimate protocol performance for
- > high speed networks. Isn't it better to use faster and probably new
- > protocols on top of the B-ISDN protocol stack?
-
- I myself fully expect to live in a multiprotocol world. IP
- will not go away soon and neither will CLNP. There are proposals
- afloat in the IETF right now for an IP-followon and it is far from
- clear where that will end up heading. There is a lot of evidence that
- IP isn't intrinsically slow. Certainly implementing IP in silicon is
- both fast and feasible and not overly expensive.
-
- > Another point is that I don't understand the whole discussion about IP
- > Routers. Nobody writes that in the B-ISDN there will be Connectionless
- > Servers, taking care of routing *and* security and address screening
- > and all other management related stuff.
-
- CCITT ain't published how they plan to do that. Until they
- do, claims that it will be done right cannot possibly be supported.
- Exploring alternative approaches seems like The Right Thing to do at
- the present time.
-
-
- Ran
- atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil
- working for, but not speaking for, the Naval Research Laboratory
-