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iand@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Ian Donaldson) writes:
 > My question is also: *why* is tmx sending out so many messages a day?
 > I've seen this problem over and over again and I thought SunIV was
 > supposed to *help* in this regard (wrt SunIII).  Previously many
 > state messages a day have been sent out by SunIV sites that were deemed
 > to be misconfigured in some way.  Fair enough.  They were usually
 > fixed (I get no continual badhandler messages from any other site).
 > However tmx.mhs.oz is a site that I thought shouldn't be in this boat 
 > (I mean, hey, these people *sell* the product; shouldn't they be trying
 > to maintain compatability?)

The messages from TMX are all genuine -- we have been changing the names
of links to UUCP sites to get around name conflicts at SUNIII sites, adding
new connections, and deleting old ones. There are a couple more expected,
but then it should become quiet again. It would be nice if all changes
could be done at one time, but that's not how customer requests come in.

 > With SunIII the state mesages were only about 300 bytes or so, but SunIV 
 > they're often 5-10 times larger.  Pity our modem bandwidth hasn't gone
 > up by the same factor in the last 5 years.

MHSnet topology messages contain a lot more data than SUNIII, and sites with
large numbers of connections like tmx send out larger topology messages.
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