[3273] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netcom Outage (Was: My InfoWorld Column About NANOG)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Fri Jun 21 20:55:06 1996
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 20:48:25 -0400
To: Stephen Balbach <stephen@clark.net>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: NANOG@merit.edu
At 06:35 PM 6/21/96 -0400, Stephen Balbach wrote:
>
>Having a fully meshed/redundant network should be the goal of any serious
>ISP. The only one that claims it with any substance IMO is UUNET. We are
>trying to build one and its not easy. Haveing redundant links in place
>does not guarantee instant fall over of traffic. Static routes, IGRP,
>iBGP, bridgeing, rip1 vs rip2, etc. are some of the issues we are running
>into. As well as when an interface is down, but actually looks up to the
>router, etc..it can be done, but there are so many possible points of
>failure and unforseen scenarios, it is very difficult to construct and
>certainly takes time to develop.
>
This is where having an excellent engineering staff pays off. :-)
- paul
