[MLB-WIRELESS] Revisiting OSPF
Nick Sibbing
Nick.Sibbing at arts.monash.edu.au
Tue Dec 14 12:24:53 EST 2004
Dan Flett wrote:
>The Melbourne Wireless network would then be seen as a network of many
>Autonomous Systems, all speaking eBGP to each other at their gateways.
>This is exactly how the Internet itself functions, and it has shown
>itself to be highly scalable. Regional Autonomous Systems, or even
>individual nodes acting as an AS on their own, could view the rest of
>the network as a "cloud" - ignorance is bliss - and let the exterior
>routing protocol take care of things. There would be no need for
>routers in one AS to know about the link-states (and therefore the
>network topology) in another AS.
>
>
Fantastic post Dan
How would the "Dan Model" cope with users who took their laptops from
one area to another or is this just not feasible?
Regards Nick Sibbing
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