customers and web servers and level one naps

Thu Sep 5 19:42:55 UTC 1996

On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Stephen Stuart wrote:

> > Second:  allowing such a customer, or an NSP, to attach web services
> > directly to the FDDI ring at the NAP.
> > 
> > PAIX is doing this.  As far as I know the other major interchange provider
> > are not.  I am wondering why.
> 
> No, Gordon, PAIX IS NOT DOING THIS. I told you quite explicitly that
> the only hosts connected to the PAIX layer 2 network (GIGAswitch/FDDI,
> not FDDI ring) are ISP routers, just like all the other IX networks.

*sigh* OK, so PA stands for Palo Alto while I assumed it stood for
Pennsylvania...

Anyway, from the point of view of network engineering it makes a lot of
sense for the customer machines to be kept off the central exchange media.
But from every other point of view, the fact that there is a router
between the customer equipment and the layer 2 exchange media is
irrelevant as it has no negative impact on anything. 

Did I misinterpret Gordon's question as being a higher level question
about which XP's allow customer servers to have high-speed access to the
XP? Said high-speed access could just as easily be a Gigaswitch/FDDI
behind the ISP's router.

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