I2

[Mit Rowe]

I think that it's a 100Gb research network in the US. Try google ;-)


Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:

>Hi,
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>On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Walter Belgers wrote:
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>>Garrett Wollman wrote:
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>>>>Which are (are there?) the mirror sites available on Internet2? I did 
>>>>not find it on the docs.
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>>>We (ftp5/cvsup3) used to be, but aren't at the moment.  I'm hoping to
>>>have that fixed by the end of the month.
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>>Although located in the Netherlands, ftp.nl.freebsd.org is connected to
>>I2 and has a pretty good link to the USA. (ftp/http/rsync, also IPv6)
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>Maybe this is a stupid question, but please someone may show the tolerance
>to answer it:
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>What the hell is Internet2?
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>ftp2.de.freebsd.org already has 1 GBit/sec to Internet (ftp/http/rsync, 
>but not IPv6), so is it a chance to double bandwidth? ;-))
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>Cheers -e
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