[1195] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Links on the blink - what will/should mci & sprint do?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Tue Nov 28 01:18:55 1995
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 22:12:59 -0800
From: Tony Li <tli@cisco.com>
To: curtis@ans.net
Cc: mn@tremere.ios.com, nanog@merit.edu, cook@cookreport.com
In-Reply-To: <199511280546.AAA04021@brookfield.ans.net> (message from Curtis Villamizar on Tue, 28 Nov 1995 00:46:06 -0500)
> 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.
Good thing too. Sounds like one of the worst ideas you've had in a
very long time.
Thank you, I'm honored.
Just in case anyone else is equally confused, I certainly don't
advocate that as a solution. It is, however, certainly one point in
the solution space.
Tony
