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[Koichi Horikawa <horikawa@nwk.cl.nec.co.jp>]

Ohta-san,

> "fewer VCs required on the ATM network"?
> 
> Is it a so infamous multipoint-to-point cell-relay hype?
> 
> Or, are you suggesting to use packet relay and lose all the merit,
> IF ANY, of cell-relaying architecture? But, then, what "if it stays
> at the ATM layer" means?

?? I'm sorry I have no idea what you mean...

> BTW, the more intermediate routers you skip, the more VCs you
> need to connect to distant routers. The number of VC grows
> exponentially to the number of skipped routers.

NO. It strongly depends on how many hosts and routers on the network
and how to communicate each other.  So the above lines are not true.

Anyway, I had no intention to argue about the situation where you are
thinking of (back ground, a specific technology...).  What I meant in
my previous mail was about general NHRP spec. (^o^)

Regards
Koichi
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                           Koichi Horikawa
                     Network Research Laboratory,
                 C&C Research Laboratories, NEC Corp.
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