Routing over Demand Circuits

Tony Li <tli@cisco.com> Wed, 18 August 1993 17:12 UTC

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From: Tony Li <tli@cisco.com>
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To: gerry@spider.co.uk
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In-Reply-To: Gerry Meyer's message of Wed, 18 Aug 93 17:06:05 +0100 <20592.9308181606@orbweb.spider.co.uk>
Subject: Routing over Demand Circuits

   Msecs?  Wish I could use your X.25 net.

You just did.  It has no X.25 in it.  ;-)

   >Let's not fix RIP as it's clearly not a better solution.

   It is the *only* applicable solution today to routing many protocols
   over demand circuits.

Good.  Then let's use TCP as it's the *ONLY* tractable solution today
to implementing your proposal.  By "tractable", it's the only one that
cisco is willing to implement.  It's your choice.

Tony