Blog Archive: January 1970
NAS Vendors and NAS features
On April 1st, 1997 In Technology
Do NAS vendors ever actually use their equipment? My
guess is no. I'd love to know if the CEO of 3Com and US Robotics
actually use ISDN from home and call in to their office using 28.8
modems. They're probably too busy. My sense is that few people at
Shiva actually dial in from home. I'm sure the folks at Ascend
Controlling routing
On April 1st, 1997 In Technology
Why not calculate all the routes in one place? These days when "next
hop shortest path / reachability" style routing is no longer correct,
we need to have a central place to apply policy. The interesting
thing about policy is that is has little to no place for dynamic
rerouting. Policy is a force for rigidity.
It sure seems like the people
Routing email
On April 1st, 1997 In Technology
Most people don't realize it but email can be routed just like network
packets. If one publishes their email address widely it doesn't make
sense to have to change it when you move your office. That's where
email routing comes in.
I would guess that large organizations with thousands of people find
this a nightmare. It's also something not
Out of band signalling of routing information
On April 1st, 1997 In Technology
I often wonder why the largest ISP's don't using out-of-band
signalling for routing information. The dynamics which routing
protocols create are fine for small networks but can create real
havoc in a large nationwide