Talk:Fuzzball router

Name
Is there any particular reason they were called "fuzzball" routers? grendel|khan 08:43, 2004 Nov 20 (UTC)
 * I'll ask. &rarr;Raul654 08:44, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)

naming of fuzzballs
here's a bit of history about naming:

http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/misc/tcp_ip/8603.mm.www/0158.html

quoting trantor!oconnor:

> A few years back ('80 | '81?) at a meeting at DARPA headquarters, someone used the term "fuzzball" to describe Dave's system. Most of the other people were TOPS-20 users with maybe one UNIX user. While intended as a somewhat derogatory term Dave embraced it and has used it to describe his system ever since. I'm not even sure he remembers the origin.

I had an account on the umich fuzzball in 1986. here's a contemporary account from Dave Mills in 86:

http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/misc/tcp_ip/8603.mm.www/0098.html

USAN (192.17.4) is currently gatewayed to ARPANET via a fuzzball at U Michigan on an experimental basis. The fuzzball gateway is gimmicked with an incredible routing algorithm that provides connectivity for all the j-random networks babbling on the USAN channel, as well as many other networks that seem to be passing by from time to time. The gimmicks include "promiscuous" ARP, dynamic logical-address translation and multiple delay-based routing algorithms sharing the same cable. While the experiment is somewhat of a lashup at present, the experience gained seems to indicate that it would be practical to evolve a working standard for multiplexing broadcast channels with arbitrary routing plexes. Whether you want to do that on a performance basis may be another matter.

Edward Vielmetti (talk) 20:30, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

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