[10775] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE West
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Crocker)
Mon Jul 14 03:50:57 1997
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 00:01:30 -0700
To: Stephen Stuart <stuart@pa.dec.com>
From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
Cc: owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US (Owen DeLong), nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9707140638.AA31364@nsl-too.pa.dec.com>
At 11:38 PM 7/13/97 -0700, Stephen Stuart wrote:
>As Lance Tatman pointed out, load-balancing only works between
>circuits joining the same two switches. This would certainly be a
>factor in planning what kind of wide-area connectivity to use to join
>two groups of switches. A single 400Mb/s aggregate might perform much
>better than a pair of 200Mb/s aggregates.
Better performance, but worse reliability?
The single 400Mb/s is, after all, a single point of failure, no?
d/
