RE: IP Fragmentation

2008-08-28 Thread Tony Li
|OK, so what happens if a transit router does not support IP |fragmentation All IPv4 routers are supposed to support fragmentation per RFC 1812 (Router Requirements), section 4.2.2.7. Tony

Re: RINA - scott whaps at the nanog hornets nest :-)

2010-11-10 Thread Tony Li
>> The mapping server idea that several proposals use do not appear to keep >> the smartness at the edges, rather they seem try to make a smarter core >> network. > > Is a DNS server core or edge? ILNP aims to use the DNS as its mapping > service. > ---

Re: US patent 5473599

2014-05-06 Thread Tony Li
On Apr 26, 2014, at 1:55 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: > the situation was created by the openbsd team, not the ieee, the ietf or > iana. You squatted on an existing oui assignment used by an equivalent > protocol and in doing this, you created a long term problem with no > possible solution other t

Re: US patent 5473599

2014-05-07 Thread Tony Li
On May 7, 2014, at 12:36 AM, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > VRRP/HSRP comes from Cisco (well, VRRP is RFC'ed for some time, but > its origin is Cisco too), I’m sorry, but this is 100% incorrect. HSRP comes from Cisco, but Cisco originally decided to not release the protocol to the IETF. [Stup

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Tony Li
On Dec 29, 2011, at 2:27 AM, Vitkovsky, Adam wrote: >> ... host systems should participate in IGP > >> We tried that. > >> It didn't scale well. > >> The Internet today is very different than the Internet in 1981. > > -did you? I thought CLNS with plethora of ip addresses compared to ipv4 was

Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

2010-07-13 Thread Tony Li
Hi folks, On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: > I think Roland's point was that on "hardware routers", there is a > separation of function between the control and the forwarding planes, and > that the forwarding plane is designed to be able to transmit data in an > efficient paral

Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

2010-07-16 Thread Tony Li
On Jul 16, 2010, at 6:02 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > 1/4" plastic tubing - > http://www.waterfiltermart.com/images/products/preview/plastic_tubing_and_nut.jpg > garden hose - > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Garden_hose.jpg/800px-Garden_hose.jpg > fire hose -

Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

2010-07-20 Thread Tony Li
If there is sufficient CPU power (and I/O to the CPU) as compared to the bandwidth, then this is doable. Tony On Jul 19, 2010, at 11:40 PM, Akyol, Bora A wrote: > Except that the goal you set below is very very hard to do on a software > router unless its CPU has packet classification proper

Re: eBGP Multihop

2010-09-03 Thread Tony Li
On Sep 2, 2010, at 2:30 AM, Graham Beneke wrote: > I have been asked to investigate moving an entire network to multi-hop on all > the eBGP sessions. Basically all upstreams, downstreams and peers will eBGP > with a route reflector located in the core. This RR will be some kind of > quagga or

Re: coprorations using BGP for advertising prefixes in mid-1990s

2011-05-12 Thread Tony Li
On May 12, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > Does no one remember EGP? ASNs are MUCH older than BGP. And we were > using BGPv3 prior to the existence of V4. We used BGPv4 back in the days > when Tony Li would chastise us for reporting a bug in a 10 day old Cisco > build sa

Re: coprorations using BGP for advertising prefixes in mid-1990s

2011-05-12 Thread Tony Li
On May 12, 2011, at 9:41 PM, Brett Watson wrote: > Hell, you knew from the image name wether Tony, Ravi, Dino, etc have built > the image. It was quite personal back then :) And then some bright fellow started hitting on our build engineers and... that was the end of that. ;-( Tony