[HECnet] Node update

[Johnny Billquist]

The layout of areas?
Each area itself can be located anywhere in correspondance to other areas. Traffic within one area is also pretty much free to work any way it see fit. If you have a large area with several routers and different circuits, where you can observe different traffic properties across them, it might pay to set the costs of the different circuits accordingly.
But for most of the time, the internet is just fast enough that you don't have to worry about any tweaking at all.

My main concern with the bridge is that it can/will grow so big being just one segment, that we'll have more broadcast traffic going on than we are comfortable with, along with the fact that DECnet have limits on how many machines and routers are allowed on a single segment.

But we'll probably not have problem with this in a while anyway, so I'm not overly worried.

	Johnny


Joe Ferraro wrote:
Currently in the Louisville, KY area.
What makes the most sense regarding the layout of areas (is that even something to consider overall?!?!)? Obviously, right now with the ethernet bridging it seems to make sense... but I'm quite unsure of the failure mode of DECnet.
Just wondering if any planning was necessary / made sense overall.
Take care,
Joe
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Steve Davidson <davidson at declab.net <mailto:davidson at declab.net>> wrote:
      Joe,
      Where are you (in the states)?
      -Steve
      Hollis, New Hampshire
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        > Johnny,
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        > At the present, I'm hitching a ride with Sampsa ...
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        > I've taken:
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        > 8.501 - WOPR
        > 8.502 - SIOP
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        > Do we have a geographical view of the net? Not sure it make a lot
      of sense
        > for me to forward several thousand miles / km, over to Sampsa...
      just to
        > return to a "local" machine here in the states...
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        > Thanks (and, apologies if its already been queried),
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        > Joe
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      return to a &=
        > quot;local" machine here in the states... <br>
        > <br><br>Thanks (and, apologies if its already been
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