[119247] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Fleming)
Wed Nov 11 00:29:46 2009
From: Brad Fleming <bdfleming@kanren.net>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>,
nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200911091919.nA9JJWAm003567@aurora.sol.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:28:45 -0600
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> I would have thought that this lesson would still be fresh in the
> minds of people, as we just passed 256K routes a little while ago
> and broke a whole bunch of Catalyst 6500/7600 SUP720-3B's (etc).
> I guess the pain isn't as memorable as I thought.
>
Not all of us forgot... I remember the day our 7606's filled and
started trying to software switch. Was a painful day indeed. At least
we knew it was coming.. just couldn't do anything about it due to
budgets.
