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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Barnes)
Wed Feb 16 17:41:40 2011
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=BNbrWoZoe1U61Zho9EDFxdpnw05rmW2GNhMSq@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:41:36 -0500
From: Richard Barnes <richard.barnes@gmail.com>
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Never mind, Messrs. Cowie and Baker answered my question:
<http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-February/033181.html>
Couldn't have paths through Egypt if layer 2 were cut off.
(Right?)
--Richard
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Richard Barnes
<richard.barnes@gmail.com> wrote:
> It also seems like a question that could be decided empirically. =A0Can
> anyone on here comment on whether or not the BGP session ended
> gracefully and the link lights remained lit?
>
> --Richard
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv> wr=
ote:
>>
>> On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Joly MacFie wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/technology/16internet.html
>>>
>>> There has been intense debate both inside and outside Egypt on whether =
the
>>>> cutoff at 26 Ramses Street was accomplished by surgically tampering wi=
th the
>>>> software mechanism that defines how networks at the core of the Intern=
et
>>>> communicate with one another, or by a blunt approach: simply cutting o=
ff the
>>>> power to the router computers that connect Egypt to the outside world.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I do remember some intense debate, here and elsewhere, but I somehow don=
't remember those as being the primary debate parameters.
>>
>> Regards
>> Marshall
>>
>>
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