[ih] ARPANET routing -- more than most people wanted to hear again

Miles Fidelman mfidelman at meetinghouse.net
Tue Jan 13 14:47:56 PST 2015


Dave,  Thanks for the references.  Good reads!   ...Miles

Dave Walden wrote:
>> PS, the dynamic routing as the IMPs went out from BBN in 1969 is 
>> described in this article: 
> http://walden-family.com/public/1970-imp-afips.pdf 
> <http://walden-family.com/public/1970-imp-afips.pdf>
> See journal page 555.
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> Journal page 272 of the following
> http://walden-family.com/public/whole-paper.pdf 
> <http://walden-family.com/public/whole-paper.pdf>
> has a little more graphical description of the same thing.
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> I was so disappointed at how dismissive later college networking 
> courses were about the original ARPANET routing algorithm, that I 
> wrote the following unpublished essay about a decade ago:
> http://walden-family.com/public/bf-history.pdf
> <http://walden-family.com/public/bf-history.pdf>
> The story of the "new" ARPANET routing algorithm is told at:
> http://walden-family.com/anecdotes/mcq-on-link-state-routing.pdf
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