Easy does it Stephen..... sorry I misunderstood you. I have not yet begun to work on the tape. So let me reorient my question. You encourage ISPs to place web servers ON THEIR OWN NETWORKS, BEHIND THEIR ROUTERS. I see now the point you are making and it is a critical one, but please have mercy when i make a mistake. Having said this, the web servers are still sited within PAIX and topologically a lot closer to the exchange switching fabric than they have been before. This presumably offers some advantages for the preformance of those machines. The only thing i am trying to ascertain is to whether this has been tried at other exchanges or not and why. As far as I am aware it has not. Bill Manning asked whether PAIX was a major exchange. No of course it is not. But bill is your response meant to imply that at a major exchange, there is simply going to be too much traffic to add the web stuff? Since the server is BEHIND the customer router the web traffic would hit the switch as part of the application layer traffic brought there by the customer. therefor should it really make any difference to have the web traffic avoid the extra hops of traversing the local loop? what am I missing? ************************************************************************ The COOK Report on Internet For subsc. pricing & more than 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA ten megabytes of free material (609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) visit http://pobox.com/cook/ Internet: cook@cookreport.com For case study of MercerNet & TIIAP induced harm to local community http://pobox.com/cook/mercernet.html ************************************************************************ On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Stephen Stuart wrote:
Second: allowing such a customer, or an NSP, to attach web services directly to the FDDI ring at the NAP.
PAIX is doing this. As far as I know the other major interchange provider are not. I am wondering why.
No, Gordon, PAIX IS NOT DOING THIS. I told you quite explicitly that the only hosts connected to the PAIX layer 2 network (GIGAswitch/FDDI, not FDDI ring) are ISP routers, just like all the other IX networks.
NO WEB SERVERS ARE CONNECTED TO THE PAIX GIGASWITCH. PERIOD. Review your tape of our conversation if this remains unclear; I said that PAIX provides co-location space in order to encourage ISPs to place web servers ON THEIR OWN NETWORKS, BEHIND THEIR ROUTERS.
Stephen - ----- Stephen Stuart stuart@pa.dec.com Network Systems Laboratory Digital Equipment Corporation