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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>leaf site</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="laser-chicken.html" title="laser chicken"/><link rel="next" href="leak.html" title="leak"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">leaf site</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="laser-chicken.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="leak.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="leaf-site"/><dt xmlns="" id="leaf-site"><b>leaf site</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [obs.] Before pervasive TCP/IP, this term was used of a machine that
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merely originated and read Usenet news or mail, and did not relay any
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third-party traffic. It was often uttered in a critical tone; when the
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ratio of leaf sites to backbone, rib, and other relay sites got too high,
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the network tended to develop bottlenecks. Compare
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<a href="../B/backbone-site.html"><i class="glossterm">backbone site</i></a>. Now that traffic
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patterns depend more on the distribution of routers than of host machines
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this term has largely fallen out of use.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="laser-chicken.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="leak.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">laser chicken </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> leak</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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