[119125] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Failover how much complexity will it add?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blake Pfankuch)
Sun Nov 8 10:24:37 2009
From: Blake Pfankuch <bpfankuch@cpgreeley.com>
To: "adel@baklawasecrets.com" <adel@baklawasecrets.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:23:41 -0700
In-Reply-To: <53061.1257681097@baklawasecrets.com>
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