RFC 898 (rfc898) - Page 2 of 24

Gateway special interest group meeting notes

RFC 898                                                       April 1984
Gateway SIG Meeting Notes


   Wednesday, February 29

      9:00  Opening Remarks -- BBN - Hinden
      9:10  SPF routing -- BBN - Seamonson
      9:35  Multiple Constraint Routing -- SRI - Shacham
      10:00 FACC Multinet Gateway Routing -- FACC - Cook
      10:30 Break
      11:00 Metanet Gateway -- SRI - Denny
      11:20 Address Mapping and Translation -- UCL - Crowcroft
      11:40 Design of the FACC Multinet Gateway -- FACC - Cook
      12:00 Lunch
      1:30  SAC Gateway -- SRI - Su/Lewis
      2:00  EGP -- Linkabit - Mills
      2:30  Congestion Control -- FACC - Nagle
      3:00  Break
      3:30  A Gateway Congestion Control Policy--NW Systems - Niznik
      4:00  Discussion

NOTES ON THE MEETING

   The MIT C Gateway -- MIT - Martin

      Postel:  A description of the gateway implemented at MIT.  The
      gateway was first developed by Noel Chiappa.  It is written in C.
      The MIT environment has 32 internal networks which are treated as
      subnets of the MITNET on the Internet.  The MIT gateways then do
      subnet routing in their interior protocol.  The subnet routing
      scheme is similar to GGP.  Liza has added an EGP implementation to
      this gateway.

      Muuss:

      Campus network/project Athena
      Dynamic routing
      Congestion control - grad student
                      +---------------+---+
       Class A net  : | 18|subnet|res|host|
                      +---------------+---+

      "Bridges" forward between subnets.

      Campus Network and Project Athena 65 VAX 750s, 200 IBM PCs.

      Hosts: Now = 400, 1986 = 3,000, 1990 = 10,000

      Subnets: Now = 42, 1985 = 60, 1990 = 200, (4 subnets/building)

      Protocols: Internet, DECnet, Chaosnet


Hinden, Postel, Muuss, & Reynolds