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- From: craa85@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ( D.W.Stevenson)
- Subject: Re: Future of IP routers
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.141555.8025@ccsun.strath.ac.uk>
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- References: <9224411.15484@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <1992Aug31.091218.21819@fokus.gmd.de> <1992Aug31.133020.10227@dxcern.cern.ch> <9224510.20448@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:15:55 GMT
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- In article <9224510.20448@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, gja@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Grenville Armitage) writes:
-
- |>
- |> 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.
- |>
- As you've indicated, a VCI/VPI pair is only meaningful between host and
- first switch. At the switch it's translated into a different VCI/VPI.
-
- Assuming the
- first switch is a local area switch i.e. under control of the local network
- manager, any permanent virtual circuits can have VCI/VPI pairs stored in
- the DNS.
-
- When a cell reaches the first switch, the incoming VCI/VPI uniquely
- identifies the outgoing VCI/VPI pair, at which point the incoming VCI/VPI
- loses any significance for the next hop on the cell's journey and can be
- reused for another connection. This means a
- particular VCI/VPI pair only has local significance between two ATM entities
- and so I don't see where the problem with only a limited number of
- VCI/VPI identifiers occurs.
-
- --
- Dave Stevenson d.w.stevenson@strath.ac.uk
- Computer Centre Communications Tel : 44 41-552 4400 ext 3461
- University of Strathclyde
- Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
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