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Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed Jul 16 23:41:10 1997

Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 23:24:48 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@blackrose.org>
Cc: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970716165812.1487B-100000@thorn.blackrose.org>; from "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@blackrose.org> on Wed, Jul 16, 1997 at 05:00:02PM -0400

On Wed, Jul 16, 1997 at 05:00:02PM -0400, Dorian R. Kim wrote:
> And you haven't checked since? In my experience, path redundancy doesn't stay
> that way. Either the first or second round of grooming in carrier network
> eliminates the path redundancy, and I don't know if it's possible to win
> against the transmissions people about that.. We've fought with carriers about
> that for a very long time, and didn't get anywhere..

Shouldn't/Don't carriers flag paths that are part of path redundancy
links to avoid automatically re-routing them?

Cheers,
-- jra
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