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- From: gja@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Grenville Armitage)
- Subject: Re: Future of IP routers
- Message-ID: <9224510.20448@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- References: <9224411.15484@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <1992Aug31.091218.21819@fokus.gmd.de> <1992Aug31.133020.10227@dxcern.cern.ch>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:41:05 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1992Aug31.133020.10227@dxcern.cern.ch> brian@dxcern.cern.ch (Brian Carpenter CERN-CN) writes:
- [...]
- >Then the procedure to establish an IP
- >based session to foo@bar.sna.fu would be
- > - issue DNS request for that address
- > - if reply indicates a specific VCI/VPI pair, use it immediately
- > - if reply indicates an E.164 address/subaddress, invoke Q.93B
- > to establish VC/VP (unless already open)
- > - else go to non-ATM processing
-
- I've some concerns with the way you use VCI/VPIs here. They are not
- world-wide unique addresses, and they are not even world-wide unique
- connection identifiers. A given virtual circuit/connection (I'm a
- little uncertain of my terms here :) traversing multiple ATM switches
- and physical fibres from point A to B will probably change VCI at each
- switch, and possibly VPI too (depending on actual implementations
- and how VPIs are mapped to service qualities, if at all, on each
- switch-fibre-switch segment).
-
- For a user connected to an arbitrary local ATM switch it is unlikely
- the DNS will be able to return a VCI/VPI pair having any meaningful
- value. The VCI/VPI which finally carries IP packets into foo@bar.sna.fu
- will be different to the the VCI (and/or VPI) that any given user
- needs to send packets to their local ATM switch on.
-
- Yes, it may be possible to request fixed VCI/VPI pairs be mapped to
- known endpoints - and by association be mapped to known IP addresses.
- But with only 2^16 VCIs and 2^8 or 2^12 VPIs (depending on your
- perspective) available, fixed mappings are not likely to be supported
- on a large scale when we are competing with all the other telco services
- on B-ISDN.
-
- Just my observations.
-
- gja
-