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My personal take on cell switching routers

  • From: Albert Manfredi <manfredi@engr05.comsys.rockwell.com>
  • Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 15:49:28 -0700
  • CC: ION Working Group <ion@nexen.com>
  • Organization: Rockwell Defense Electronics - Collins

jhalpern@us.newbridge.com wrote:

[ ... ]
 
> Further, as we have discussed, there are important architectural
> reasons for not requiring the two systems to use the same addressing.
> (Peer model addressing only works if the two topologies correlate.)

But wait, Joel.

Just as ATM NSAPAs can accommodate various topologies, a combined ATM/IP
structure could have done likewise, no? Sure, this can get ridiculous if
everyone must have his own scheme, but if things are kept under control
what would be wrong with multiple routing algorithms within ATM switches
and IP routers, where the algorithm used is chosen according to the AFI
byte? For instance?

I have to confess that when I dig into the NHRP complexities, it makes me
impatient; exasperated that it had to come to this.

Bert
manfredi@engr05.comsys.rockwell.com