[166435] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP failure analysis and recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Thu Oct 24 09:22:27 2013
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.02.1310240257380.624@brugal.local>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:21:14 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
Cc: JRC NOC <nospam-nanog@jensenresearch.com>, nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2013, Christopher Morrow wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:40 PM, JRC NOC
>> <nospam-nanog@jensenresearch.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Have we/they lost something important in the changeover to converged
>>> mutiprotocol networks?
>>> Is there a better way for us edge networks to achieve IP resiliency in
>>> the
>>> current environment?
>>
>>
>> sadly I bet not, aside from active probing and disabling paths that
>> are non-functional.
>
>
> Um, how about, don't buy services from network providers that fail in this
> way?
>
I suppose the question is: "how would you know that any particular
network had this failure mode?"
until, of course, you run into it... as jrc did...
