Re: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-09 Thread Cayle Spandon
I frequently run into scenarios where two devices (two routers, or a router and a host) need a point-to-point connection to each other with a capacity of (much) more than 10 Gbps. For cost reasons, Ethernet is often used. Since more than 10 Gbps is needed, we end up with multiple parallel 10GE po

TRIP deployment?

2008-11-24 Thread cayle . spandon
I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list for this question: how widely is TRIP (Telephone Routing over IP [RFC3219]) deployed / used in current networks?

BGP on Mac OS X?

2009-01-25 Thread cayle . spandon
Does anyone known which open source BGP implementation I can get running on Mac OS X Leopard with a minimum of fuss? This is for experimentation only (not for a production environment) so I am not too concerned about scaling and performance. If any tweaking is needed to get it to compile /

Mechanisms for a multi-homed host to pick the best router

2008-09-17 Thread Cayle Spandon
(My apologies, in advance, for the fact that this question is very long winded.) I have a server which is multi-homed to N routers as shown below: +---+ R1---| | | | R2---| | ... | S | | | Rn---| | +---+ This server is a host; it is not a router in the sense that i

Re: Mechanisms for a multi-homed host to pick the best router

2008-09-18 Thread Cayle Spandon
Hi Paul, Thank you very much for the confirmation that the idea is sane and for the pointers to the additional information. -- Cayle On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Cayle Spandon") writes: > > > (My ap

Re: Mechanisms for a multi-homed host to pick the best router

2008-09-18 Thread Cayle Spandon
Hi Laurence, RE> why would you not sent the reply out the same spigot you go the request on? Yes, that exactly what I was trying to ask in the e-mail (in a much more verbose way than you :-). The problems I could think of are: - It only works for inbound TCP connections. - The TCP connections