The Routing Over Large Clouds Mailing List Archive by date

[Andrew Smith <asmith@baynetworks.com>]

> From atmpost@matmos.hpl.hp.com Mon Nov 27 17:23:12 1995
> To: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>
> Cc: curtis@ans.net, ip-atm@matmos.hpl.hp.com
> Reply-To: curtis@ans.net
> Subject: Re: ARP and NHRP question 
> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Nov 1995 14:55:59 PST."
>              <199511222255.OAA05406@hubbub.cisco.com> 
> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 19:44:30 -0500
> From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>

Curtis,

> If you restrict NHRP to act only within a LIS and only responding for
> things on the LIS, you have about the same as RFC1577 ATM ARP.  You
> lose the robust server redundancy built into RFC1577++.

I would suggest that NHRP will need to merge in some server redundancy 
capabilities pretty fast if it is to be useful. I'm not sure that 
1577++ is the right model to pick long-term though: that merely pushes 
the problem down to the clients without a mechanism to manage the information 
that each client stores (this gets back to the configuration server issues of
a seperate thread).

> Curtis
> 

Andrew


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