I think Jonathon Stone is now working for a US university. If anyone has any specific info on Jonathon or the old "backbone" that would be appreciated.
He's at Stanford. I'll mail his email address separately (doesn't need to go to the list). Jonathan was a comp sci student who did various odd jobs such as hacking PCRoute to speak IGRP to cisco routers. That and just being a general enthusiast. (It was with great pleasure that I turned off IGRP at Vic...) Which "old backbone"? It went through a few stages, from some largely experimental PC-routers and async lines, to the DDS based Kawaihiko network, to the frame-relay Tuia network (with some parallel development in DSIR-land prior to TuiaNet). Timeframes: my saved copy of the VUW router's change log says the Kawaihiko DDS links were added on 14 Jun 90; the PC-router links running before that. This was before I started there; Mark Davies or Michael Newbery may have more info. TuiaNet links went in June 1992 (and I was around for that). -- don --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog