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Re: New Node [and PI space]



On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:06:40 -0400
grarpamp <grarpamp@xxxxxxxxx> allegedly wrote:

> On 8/24/10, Sven Olaf Kamphuis <sven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> additional management overhead.
> > eh say what?
> 
> I agree with this from experience as well. There is no real technical
> problem with
> PI space on non-legacy gear anymore. And any recent PC can crunch
> more tables than routers of the same age, they just don't have
> silicon switching or port density yet... that's an aside, though
> relevant to following sections.
>
> It's age or just more hands on setup and verification/paper grunt
> work that some [many] operators decline to do, especially without
> surcharge. Small ISP's should take it on for fun. Large ones that
> don't take it on may be a sign of technical or other weakness.

I moved the /24s from UKERNA to CWC back in the early to mid 90s (and
we didn't call them Clueless and Witless for nothing....)

> > mick sayeth
> > The text file for RFC 854 contains exactly 854 lines.
> > Do you think there is any cosmic significance in this?
> 
> yeah, it'll probably take 854 years to get rid of telnet,
> and umm, rlogin... eh mick? heh.

:-) Heh indeed, but ssh.net had gone when I registered that.

Mick

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The text file for RFC 854 contains exactly 854 lines. 
Do you think there is any cosmic significance in this?

Douglas E Comer - Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc854.txt
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