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[Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>]

At 11:00 AM 5/30/96 PDT, Steve Deering wrote:

>> NHRP arranges for router hops to be avoided by the edge devices
>> bypassing the routers...
>
>NHRP looks, to me, like a conspiracy by the telecommunications companies to
>cause local communication to a nearby router to be turned into long-distance
>calls on which they can charge their usual, exorbitant retail prices to
>end-users.  They know if they don't do that, they'll be relegated to the
>less profitable role of being bandwidth wholesalers, selling PVCs to ISPs.
>NHRP is clearly in the phone companies' interest, but is it in the Internet
>users' interest?
>
>Steve
>

Can you think of a better way to determine point-to-multipoint tunnel
endpoints?  ;-)

- paul