anyone got any good info?

from what i gather

1968: Bob Karn’s team at BBN builds first Interface Message Processor (IMP) later known as a “router”.
70's few extremes considered
Static routing
Quasi static routing
Dymanic routing
Hot potatoe passing..
1983: UC Berkeley and BBN integrate TCP/IP into UNIX 4.2 BSD. Berkeley develops network utilities and sockets API.

Mid 80s saw commerical popularity

2000 Layer 4 switching.

Can anyone confirm of add to this?

Si

 

Huh ??

 

thats key dates ive managed to put together. I basically need the history of layer 3 switching from start to present. Present being the intro of Layer 4

Si

 

1962 - Paul Baran of RAND develops the idea of distributed, packet-switching networks.

look into ARPANET and the history of the Internet. You're looking at late-50's, early 60's for "networks" developed at MIT.

As to confirming the history, that's a bit of an effort to be honest.

Remember, google's your friend

http://www.thocp.net/reference/internet/internet1.htm
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

 

Cheers ozzy, no doubt ill run the literature review past you before submission hehehe

Si