[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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