[1194] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Links on the blink - what will/should mci & sprint do?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Villamizar)
Tue Nov 28 00:51:43 1995
To: Tony Li <tli@cisco.com>
cc: mn@tremere.ios.com, nanog@merit.edu, cook@cookreport.com
Reply-To: curtis@ans.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Nov 1995 10:34:24 PST."
<199511271834.KAA00275@greatdane.cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 00:46:06 -0500
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
In message <199511271834.KAA00275@greatdane.cisco.com>, Tony Li writes:
>
> 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
Good thing too. Sounds like one of the worst ideas you've had in a
very long time.
Curtis
