customers and web servers and level one naps

Fri Sep 6 03:09:52 UTC 1996

> Second:  allowing such a customer, or an NSP, to attach web services
> directly to the FDDI ring at the NAP.

This is a security problem, if there is no switch in the middle and
each host are induvidually attached to the switch.

Next problem is that a host needs to knew what router to send a
packet to for a particular destination, so either it points
default at one of the NAP routers, and packets traverse the NAP
twice, or the host impleements BGP and has a full set of routes.

So host at a the NAP media should be 'strongly not recomended'.

An interesting scenario is, a router with two FDDI interfaces, one to
the host and one to the NAP. It now comes down to if it's worth
the real_estate to have the host there.

--Peter