Re: capacity v bandwidth

On 02-Jun-26 11:48, Noel Chiappa via Internet-history wrote:
>> From: Jack Haverty
> 
>> In the early Internet, the boxes interconnecting networks were called
>> "gateways". Today they're called "routers".  But why the change...?
>> 
>> So we started callig them "routers". Other companies (cisco, proteon,
>> ...) probably had similar experiences in their sales activities.

I posted my copy of the CMU ECE router source code from around 1986 to github a few years ago at https://github.com/djw1149/cmu-ece-router
This code uses a mix of "gateway" and "router":

https://github.com/djw1149/cmu-ece-router/blob/master/sys/rcp.c
from 07-Mar-84 is the Router Control Protocol module

https://github.com/djw1149/cmu-ece-router/blob/master/sys/ipI.c
has comment:
 * 21-Jun-84  Mike Accetta (mja) at Carnegie-Mellon University
 *  Removed support for obsolete "probe" function and changed to
 *  record a single well-known gateway (for systems without EGP);
 *  adjusted to provide the new reporting gateway parameter to
 *  ip_remap() and to initialize the autonomous system number field
 *  of routing entries created for our directly connected networks.

--
David Waitzman




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