[119188] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Failover how much complexity will it add?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Holmes,David A)
Mon Nov 9 12:59:41 2009
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:58:47 -0800
In-Reply-To: <23744.1257784568@baklawasecrets.com>
From: "Holmes,David A" <dholmes@mwdh2o.com>
To: <adel@baklawasecrets.com>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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