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Maybe RSVP and Q.2931, but not NHRP

  • From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
  • Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 23:01:45 -0400
  • Cc: ion@nexen.com

At 11:36 AM 5/30/96 JST, Masataka Ohta wrote:

>
>I don't think Fram Relay is practical.
>
>But, anyway, as long as the purpose is the construction of the
>Internet backbone where small number of routers over geographically
>large area are connected, the topology might not be fatally bad.
>

Not to start a pissing contest, but I would suggest that frame-relay is
moderately more practical with regards to scaling than the phantom
problems you are trying to solve.

In any event, frame-relay is a real, tangible, and in the right hands,
scalable technology that is currently being deployed and used by some
of the largest network providers on the planet. In a practical scenario,
the problems are indeed involving topologoes that are geographically
diverse and, by your own defination, 'large'.

And yes, frame-relay is NBMA.

- paul