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From: medin@nsipo.nasa.gov (NASA ARC NSI Project Office)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: Internet Problems
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Date: 29 Nov 90 20:17:36 GMT
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Well, not quite.  This is an acute problem, but various solutions are
being worked on.  We have one of the 2 FIX sites, and the MB here is
very busy, but it is a lot more efficient than it used to be. 
Unfortunately, the load has also greatly increased.  

There is going to be a get together on this problem at IETF next week.
We should know more then.  Understand however, that there are something
like 2000 nets floating around these days.  Figure out how large an
EGP NR message has to be to send these, then figure out how many of
these can flow over a 56 Kb line, where the updates are going off
every 2 minutes.  This is a matter of physics.  You need to change the
problem in order to accomodate this all on a 56Kbps based network.

						Thanks,
						   Milo