Re: customers and web servers and level one naps

[Srinivasarao Mulugu <smulugu () sprint net>]

Micahel,

Have you had much experience, having the servers connect directly on to a 
level-2 device like a FDDI-to Ethernet (e.g. catalyst) connector ? and it 
security implications ?

-Mulugu

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Mulugu Srinivasarao                 Tel : 703/904-2013
SprintLink Engineering              Fax : 703/904-2292
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On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Michael Dillon wrote:

> 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.
>
> *sigh* OK, so PA stands for Palo Alto while I assumed it stood for
> Pennsylvania...
>
> Anyway, from the point of view of network engineering it makes a lot of
> sense for the customer machines to be kept off the central exchange media.
> But from every other point of view, the fact that there is a router
> between the customer equipment and the layer 2 exchange media is
> irrelevant as it has no negative impact on anything. 
>
> Did I misinterpret Gordon's question as being a higher level question
> about which XP's allow customer servers to have high-speed access to the
> XP? Said high-speed access could just as easily be a Gigaswitch/FDDI
> behind the ISP's router.
>
> Michael Dillon                   -               ISP & Internet Consulting
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