[1174] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Links on the blink - what will/should mci & sprint do?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Mon Nov 27 13:42:29 1995
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 10:34:24 -0800
From: Tony Li <tli@cisco.com>
To: mn@tremere.ios.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, cook@cookreport.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9511270824.A9554-0100000@tremere.ios.com> (message from Mike on Mon, 27 Nov 1995 08:50:39 -0500 (EST))
Mike,
If we were to seriously adopt the strategy of forwarding even when the
destination appears down, it would be necessary to support this in the
routing protocols to insure loop avoidance. This is not out of the
realm of theoretical possibility. However, we're NOT there today.
Tony
