[ih] Ethernet, was Why TCP?

Andrew G. Malis agmalis at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 14:22:40 PDT 2016


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> 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> 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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