[29578] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Global Crossing Network Problem.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jesper Skriver)
Wed Jun 28 09:23:49 2000
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:19:35 +0200
From: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
To: Mohamed Hirse <madlion@justin.net>
Cc: Steve Nash <snash@lightning.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20000628151935.B99965@skriver.dk>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.10006280832470.29359-100000@justin.net>; from madlion@justin.net on Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 09:13:13AM -0400
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On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 09:13:13AM -0400, Mohamed Hirse wrote:
> I agree this is an option. How would you control the traffic flow if one
> link goes down?
>
> The APS configuration on the router relies on communication between
> the router and the ADM. with in the configuration of the router you
> would label and assign groups to the interface configuration. This would
> tell the router/interface to respond accordingly when the circuit
> switches from working to protect. This occurs automatically (most of the
> most of the time)
>
> Are you proposing using some sort of routing mechanism to shift the
> traffic or will there be intelligence build in to the ADM that would allow
> the router to switch automatically?
Just use plain routing, or if you feel like it, MPLS TE tunnels ...
/Jesper
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