henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (07/17/86)
The backbone configuration in the Toronto area will be undergoing some
changes in the next while. One major change has already occurred: the
linus-utzoo phone link has been replaced by seismo-mnetor via X.25.
Mnetor is one of the other major Toronto sites. Currently it hooks to
utzoo indirectly via utcs, but that will probably change soon. There
is also a fairly good chance that the watmath-utzoo phone feed will turn
into watmath-mnetor X.25 sometime soon. In short, although utzoo will
remain a major local redistribution point, it looks like mnetor will be
taking over the long-haul part of utzoo's backbone work. This makes a
lot of sense, since they are equipped for X.25 and we aren't (and
probably never will be).
Apart from the linus-utzoo-seismo-mnetor cutover, which has already been
done, this is all very tentative as yet, and there are other complications
which may enter the picture. Stay tuned.
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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