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

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Wed Jan 14 07:57:37 PST 2015


    > From: Dave Walden

    > I was so disappointed at how dismissive later college networking
    > courses were about the original ARPANET routing algorithm

Gee, Dave, I thought BBN Report #3803 laid out in pretty good detail why the
original ARPANET routing algorithm was problematic... ;-)

But seriously, thanks for all those wonderful links. The McQuillan anecdote,
and your note about DV algorithms, were particurly informative.

	Noel



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