The Routing Over Large Clouds Mailing List Archive by date

[Sam Wilson <ercm20@tattoo.ed.ac.uk>]

> [ after juha suggested enhanced pnni as a substitute for nhrp derya
>   noted that NHRP is (currently) intiated by hosts not routers ]
> 
> you didn't read the original messag or my reply carefully enough.  we
> were talking about routers, not hosts.

I certainly mentioned only routers in my messages in this thread, but in
our case there will be hosts connected to the ATM LANs (which connect to
the MANs, which will shortly connect to the Scottish MAN Interconnect)
which might benefit from direct ATM connections a la NHRP rather than
multihop routed paths. 

Let me get this right: Juha is offering i-pnni as a substitute for r2r
nhrp?  Would hosts still use nhrp in that scenario?

Sam Wilson
Network Services Division
Computing Services, The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK