[12805] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UUNet Routing SNAFU
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Wed Oct 8 16:27:45 1997
To: prue@ISI.EDU
cc: nanog@merit.edu, neil@domino.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Oct 1997 19:17:24 PDT."
<199710080217.AA04821@los.isi.edu>
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Reply-To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 21:09:02 +0100
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997 19:17:24 -0700
prue@ISI.EDU wrote:
> This is not good.
>
> The third hand story I got from their hotline was that a core route crashed
> causing other core routers to crash. This doesn't explain anything to me.
> Are they using Ascend Giga routers in their core?
>
As someone who uses GRFs I'd like to point out that it must have
been operator/configuration error that caused this and _not_
some bug in Ascend code, don't blame the router as it has
all the filtering capabilities a Cisco has.
Regards,
Neil.
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