Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:6839 news.admin:15194 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!fdrpc!fdr From: fdr@fdrpc.UUCP (Frank Rockenstein) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.admin Subject: Re: Is UUNET going to upgrade? Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 91 07:02:09 GMT References: <1991Jun8.210644.4897@shaman.com> Organization: dis Lines: 33 > > Does anyone know if UUNET is going to get an upgrade soon? I know > about their recent upgrade, but I've been experiencing severe delays when > communicating with them -- sometimes so severe my machine timeouts and > stops talking. I am experiencing the same problem. Your solution sounds like a fine idea - except I would vote for running "Waffle" on a dos board ( one line per board ) with NFS . At $100 per board 286 16 mhz - you could do a thousand lines for $100,000 mas o menos. Yeah I know Waffle lacks a few necessary features and you will need some function servers for the accounts but this is a design your own network kind of thread isn,t it?? Alternately, lets put an etherbone in every telco CO ( I've already proposed this Ha Ha) instead of the CO lan "data switch virtual circuit" set ups which are now being implemented. Forget ISDN thru the switch - just let me have the v. 32 bis 192 kbit local loop digital link running slip into the bone. Come out of there ds2 to a regional hub running FDDI or MAN ( Does MAN still exist??) thence ds3 on to the national hub in DC where UUNET can have a direct fddi protocol port to its MIT GIGAFLOP 90,000 (just guessing) dos board multiprocessor IP server - think how much they will save on telebits... That should take care of the timeout problem.... &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& I am my own node now. If you too would like to be your own node, mail to node@fdrpc.UUCP ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++