[ih] Ethernet, was Why TCP?

John Day jeanjour at comcast.net
Thu Sep 1 15:30:54 PDT 2016


More importantly, 802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging uses IS-IS.  


> On Sep 1, 2016, at 17:22, Andrew G. Malis <agmalis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, it’s been incorporated by TRILL as well, I should have mentioned that.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 9:08 PM, William Sotomayor <wfms at ottix.net <mailto:wfms at ottix.net>> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 1 Sep 2016, Andrew G. Malis wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Paul Vixie <paul at redbarn.org <mailto:paul at redbarn.org>> wrote:
>       later on, DEC poured billions (that's like millions except with a "b")
>       of dollars into DECnet Phase V, proving after all that they, and not the
>       community, knew what the future of networking was going to look like.
>       (they should have saved the money so that Compaq could have it.)
> 
> 
> DECnet Phase V gave us IS-IS, which was later standardized by ISO and is now in wide use
> throughout the Internet. It’s probably the most popular intra-AS routing protocol in use today
> by Internet backbone providers. So it wasn’t a total waste. :-)
> 
> Not at all, in fact it seems to be getting some use in the data centre of all places by at least one vendor.
> 
> wfms
> 
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