Addressing versus Routing (Was: Deploying IPv6 in a datacenter)

Wed Dec 21 23:01:47 UTC 2005

Thus spake <sysadmin at citynetwireless.net>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:36:00PM +0100, Daniel Roesen wrote:
>> Really? Where are the limits of BGP? Can you show me any numbers?
>> You'd be the first. I'm not aware of any protocol inherent scaling
>> brickwalls like with other protocols where certain timing constraints
>> place limits (or thinking of L1 systems, you remember CSMA/CD?).
>
> Last time I checked, Ethernet is still CSMA/CD.

Only if you're running half-duplex, which is generally an error condition in 
modern networks.

(Unless we're talking WiFi, but I think that mechanism's actually called 
CSMA/CA)

S

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