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From: geof@imagen.UUCP (Geof Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Re: Sun routers...
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Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 12:33:45 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 28 12:33:45 1987
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Interdispersed with much stuff with which I have no problem, you write:

 >                         ..... Having several gateways between each
 > network distributes the load and increases the redundancy if any
 > particular node fails.....  

"Distributes the load"?  I know of no network standard that allows this
to happen.  It is a major failing of the Internet protocol suite that
redundant gateways improve the reliability of an internet, but don't
increase its capacity to handle traffic (not that other protocols such
as XNS or DECNET been more successful).

If you have accomplished this, can you let us all know how?

- Geof