Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 18:11:37 -0600 From: dannyman <dannyman@sasquatch.dannyland.org> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? Message-ID: <19980302181137.44607@urh.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <199803022341.QAA24319@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 04:41:24PM -0700 References: <199803022318.PAA13189@rah.star-gate.com> <199803022325.PAA14115@dingo.cdrom.com> <199803022341.QAA24319@mt.sri.com>
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On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 04:41:24PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > > Hah. You forget that nobody outside the Bay area has the mbone > > anymore, if they ever had it in the first place. > > No kidding. Our ISP played with it for awhile (for watching NaNOG > meetings), and gave it up. They're now sending people to the meetings, > since it was much cheaper and useful than using the Mbone, which is > useless given the current 'lag' and 'loss' on the net as a whole. > > PHK's 40% packet loss to CA with normal traffic would make the MBONE > more than useless. It would simply waste bandwidth with no gain. > > That's why people who want the MBONE for research and such want their > own private Internet back again, and are asking for grants and such to > give them their own toy back. Yah, the mbone works a whole lot better over the vBNS. :) -- //Dan -=- This message brought to you by djhoward@uiuc.edu -=- \\/yori -=- Information - http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/djhoward/ -=- aiokomete -=- Our Honored Symbol deserves an Honorable Retirement To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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