[ih] Secret precedence schemes back then

[David Mills]

Scot,

I'm not aware of the 108-router boundary; I was afraid that the EGP 
packet would grow to become fragmented and the unfuzzies would croak. 
Having been victims of SATnet, the fuzzies could fragment and 
reassemble, but not every other critter could. The dropdead packet size 
was 1500 octets in respect the then Ethernet max. However, the fuzzies 
died before that happend and the IBM/MCI era ensued with BGP..

Dave

Scott Brim wrote:

>Excerpts from Louis Mamakos on Wed, Jan 28, 2009 09:52:47AM -0500:
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>>It's probably a little hard to imagine, but budgets and process were
>>difficult at the time, and the community took up a collection to
>>replace the LSI-11/23 CPU boards in those BBN routers with the fancy
>>new LSI-11/73 CPUs!  I know that we at UMD "lent" a CPU board or two,
>>as did some others at the time.
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>Was that when we crossed the 108 routes boundary?
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