[12515] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Traffic Engineering (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John W Stewart III)
Thu Sep 18 18:25:36 1997
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 14:48:54 -0700
To: "John G. Scudder" <jgs@ieng.com>
From: John W Stewart III <jstewart@juniper.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199709182145.RAA09134@syzygy.ieng.com>
i know that AS loops were allowed primarily because it could
allow for a partitioned AS to heal itself through other AS(s).
however, i don't know that anyone has ever used it that way
(correct me if i'm wrong), so i'm curious what, if anything,
it *has* been used for
/jws
At 05:45 PM 9/18/97 -0400, John G. Scudder wrote:
>John W Stewart III writes:
>> >This is actually useful in some circumstances.
>>
>> serious question: what circumstances?
>
>Sean already mentioned one: Healing a partitioned AS via an external
>AS.
>
>--John
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