brescia@PARK-STREET.BBN.COM (Mike Brescia) (12/22/88)
When are the (now legendary and semi-mythical) Butterfly gateways
supposed to replace the 11/73s and solve this out of memory problem.
Short answer:
Next year, as in early next year.
Long answer:
DDN is in the process of issuing the Management Bulletins to announce the
official transition schedule. Expect these in the next few weeks.
The Butterfly(tm) Mailbridges are installed, and running tests. The final
software and configurations are not yet running. Some sites have been
recruited to do some testing of the EGP, and Butterflies have been passing
traffic in parallel with the LSI11 mailbridges. If your site has a gateway on
the Milnet or Arpanet, and you wish to run EGP with the Butterflies, send a
note to "mb-transition-request@bbn.com" to be on the list, and get the
Mailbridge address. [I realize that you may already know these addresses, but
until the DDN Management Bulletins are out, please register as a 'tester'.]
Mike Brescia
Gateway Development Group
800-492-4992 (617-873-3662)abe@MACE.CC.PURDUE.EDU (Vic Abell) (12/23/88)
Mike, It's no big secret that Purdue has a Bfly gateway on the core, in addition to the LSI-11 that we support. EGP people should also be aware that the current testing of the Bfly mail bridges has been a continuing source of trouble for one of the main Purdue nets - 128.46. Often, when the new mail bridges are being tested, some random gateway starts advertising a bogus connection to 128.46, effectively disconnecting 128.46 from the rest of the world. This has happened quite a few times now. I hope the problem will be eliminated soon. Vic Abell
abe@MACE.CC.PURDUE.EDU (Vic Abell) (12/23/88)
Mike, It should be no big secret that Purdue has a Bfly gateway on the core, in addition to the LSI-11 that we support. EGP people should also be aware that the current testing of the Bfly mail bridges has been a continuing source of trouble for one of the main Purdue nets - 128.46. Often, when the new mail bridges are being tested, some random gateway starts advertising a bogus connection to 128.46, effectively disconnecting 128.46 from the rest of the world. This has happened quite a few times now. I hope the problem will be eliminated soon. Vic Abell