RFC 1149

Steven Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Tue Apr 2 22:44:57 UTC 2013


DLT?  I first heard it as a station wagon full of (9-track, 1600 bpi,
that having been the state of the art) mag tapes on the Taconic Parkway,
circa 1970.  I suspect, though, that Herman Hollerith expressed the idea 
about a stage coach full of punchcards, back in the 1880s.


On Apr 2, 2013, at 3:41 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:

> "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 full of DLT cartridges."
> 
> Owen
> 
> On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:31 , "Scott Berkman" <scott at sberkman.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hey careful, Pigeons have won this fight before:
>> 
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8248056.stm
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: George Herbert [mailto:george.herbert at gmail.com] 
>> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 10:37 PM
>> To: Jeff Kell
>> Cc: NANOG
>> Subject: Re: RFC 1149
>> 
>> Packets, shmackets.  I'm just upset that my BGP over Semaphore Towers
>> routing protocol extension hasn't been experimentally validated yet.
>> 
>> Whoever you are who keeps flying pigeons between my test towers, you can't
>> deliver packets without proper routing updates!  Knock it off long enough
>> for me to converge the #@$#$@ routing table...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell at utc.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 4/1/2013 10:15 PM, Eric Adler wrote:
>>>> Make sure you don't miss the QoS implementation of RFC 2549 (and 
>>>> make
>>> sure
>>>> that you're ready to implement RFC 6214).  You'll be highly 
>>>> satisfied
>>> with
>>>> the results (presuming you and your packets end up in one of the 
>>>> higher quality classes).
>>>> I'd also suggest a RFC 2322 compliant DHCP server for devices inside 
>>>> the hurricane zone, but modified by implementing zip ties such that 
>>>> the C47s aren't released under heavy (wind or water) loads.
>>> 
>>> Actually, given recent events, I'd emphasize and advocate RFC3514
>>> (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt) which I think is LONG overdue 
>>> for adoption.  The implementation would forego most of the currently 
>>> debated topics as related to network abuse or misuse :)
>>> 
>>> Jeff
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> -george william herbert
>> george.herbert at gmail.com
>> 
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> 
> 


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