[10376] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Plethora of UUnet outages and instabilities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Mansfield)
Mon Jun 30 23:21:31 1997
From: Steve Mansfield <steve@nwnet.net>
To: deepak@jain.com (Deepak Jain)
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 20:14:24 -3100 (PDT)
Cc: web@typo.org, spork@inch.com, alex@nac.net, jbeck@connectnet.com,
nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: steve@nwnet.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970630211349.21580A-100000@aries.ai.net> from "Deepak Jain" at Jun 30, 97 09:15:07 pm
> Why wouldn't upgrading the router's CPU or splitting the load between two
> separate routers solve the problem? Maybe that's not an overnight
> solution [unless you have spare RSPs in the POP/colo point] but it seems
> pretty straight forward to me.
>
> -Deepak.
Probably because the CPU that's overloaded is not the primary Cisco
processor, but an RSP board or somesuch. When you have customers coming
into Frame Relay switches, it's not so easy to just move customers between
HSSI's without just overloading another router.
Steve Mansfield steve@nwnet.net
NorthWestNet Network Engineer 425-649-7467
