[HECnet] VCF East

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-04-24 04:37, Steve Davidson wrote:
> I appreciate it.  In fact, my network would not be able to do what it
> does without it.  Just take a look at:
>
> MCR NCP TELL MIM SHOW KNOWN AREAS
>
> You will notice that SG1:: makes heavy use of the bandwidth given all
> the areas it supports.  In addition to the Multinet Tunnels,  I also run
> the bridge.  It is not only connected to Update but to others.  It is
> configured so that it does not introduce loops while providing a bridge
> connection to sites that do not have static addresses.  It manages this
> with a cron job that reloads the database periodically.

Oh, I wasn't referring to just HECnet here. Update have a very wide 
internet connection to most things. HECnet is not even a blip on that radar.

	Johnny

>
> -Steve
>
>
> On 04/23/2015 10:29 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> I don't think you fully appreciate the connectivity that Update
>> have... :-D
>>
>> But if Peter were to step in, I'm sure we'd all be humbled. :-)
>> (This is the guy that got 40Gb/s to his mom about 10 years ago... Yes,
>> that was not a typo. Fourty gigabit per second. Ten years ago.
>> Actually, maybe it only was seven years ago, but anyway...)
>>
>>     Johnny
>>
>> On 2015-04-24 03:51, Sampsa Laine wrote:
>>> I'm aware of that Johnny, just thought the fact that the server is in
>>> the UK might have helped if the issues were latency related, I have
>>> fairly fast pings to the US..
>>>
>>> sampsa
>>>
>>>
>>> On 24 Apr 2015, at 02:34, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2015-04-24 03:21, Sampsa Laine wrote:
>>>>> On 24 Apr 2015, at 02:17, Steve Davidson <steve at davidson.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> VAXstation 4000/60
>>>>>> DEChub-90 backplane with a DECserver-90TL and a 16-port DEChub
>>>>>> VT320
>>>>>> a gateway (actually bridge) machine to connect to HECnet only the
>>>>>> link was pathetic
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Next year let me know, I've got a bridge sitting on a gigabit pipe
>>>>> doing nothing.
>>>>
>>>> I don't think that will help, unless that pipe happens to have one
>>>> end somewhere on the US east coast I suspect...
>>>>
>>>> Update itself sits on even more bandwidth. Not helping either...
>>>>
>>>>     Johnny
>>>>
>>>> --
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>


-- 
Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol