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- Subject: 040.61
-
- ANSNet and GatedD
- Al Weis, ANS
- <weis@ans.net>
-
- The ANSNet/NSFNET routing software in use today, which is based on a
- derivative of an early version of Gateway Daemon (GateD), does not
- scale to support the future needs of the Internet. To alleviate this
- problem, Advanced Network & Services (ANS) has joined a consortium
- with IBM Corporation, TGV, Inc., and Cornell University to upgrade
- GateD, deploy it on the ANS Network and distribute it to the public
- domain.
-
- Currently, GateD is being used in commercial products by several
- router vendors. It will be upgraded to include support for IS-IS and
- BGP-4. Developers from ANS and IBM have been working on the GateD
- enhancements for about five months and are testing them at ANS
- headquarters in Elmsford, NY, the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in
- Hawthorne, NY, and at Cornell.
-
- The first release will be introduced on the ANSNet by early February.
- It will be compatible with the existing software to ensure that there
- is no disruption in service. Once BGP-4 is deployed, there will be a
- dramatic reduction in the amount of routing overhead on the ANS backbone;
- the number of routing table entries will be reduced by at least 30%.
- Mid-level and enterprise networks attached to the ANSNet that also
- deploy BGP-4 will be able to do explicit routing.
-
- As the enhancements are tested and frozen, Cornell will provide them
- to the public domain. ANS and the consortium are offering to work
- with independent software vendors and router vendors to test the
- interoperability of their products with the new GateD enhancements.
-