INTERNETWORKING AND THE INTERNET
Most everyone who uses the Internet knows that it has grown very rapidly in the past few years. Figure 1-3 shows the growth of the Internet routing tables, which is an indication of the overall growth of the Internet [MOY98].[3]
[3] [MOY98] Moy, John T., OSPF: Anatomy of an Internet Routing Protocol, Addison-Wesley, 1998.
Figure 1-3. Growth of Internet Routing Tables [MOY88]
When the Internet was first founded, there were very few nodes and not many hosts on the network. However, as more users subscribed to the Internet, and as it became a commercial network, with easy-to-use features, the number of hosts and ...
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