Re: (sipp) New SIPP Addressing Draft

Brian Carpenter CERN-CN <brian@dxcoms.cern.ch> Wed, 20 July 1994 06:34 UTC

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From: Brian Carpenter CERN-CN <brian@dxcoms.cern.ch>
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Subject: Re: (sipp) New SIPP Addressing Draft
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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 08:30:39 +0200
In-Reply-To: <2881.bill.simpson@um.cc.umich.edu> from "William Allen Simpson" at Jul 20, 94 02:31:36 am
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Bill,
> 
> You describe a NSAP format, but not the more important IPX one.  Please
> leave it in somebody else's separate draft.  Who gives a damn about
> worthless NSAPs?  IPX is a real widely deployed protocol.

Why don't *you* write down the IPX mapping? It is certainly much easier
to do than the NSAPA mapping, since there enough bits.

Since 20% of my off-site traffic is CLNP and 0% of it is
IPX, I didn't feel motivated by the latter...

[We did 98 Gbytes of CLNP in June compared to 405 Gbytes of IP.]

  Brian
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