[36350] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Faster 'Net growth rate raises fears about routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Francis)
Tue Apr 3 15:34:41 2001
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 11:03:11 -0700
From: Scott Francis <scott@virtualis.com>
To: Bora Akyol <akyol@akyol.org>
Cc: Sheldon Dubrowin <dubrowin@yahoo.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 08:13:59AM -0700, Bora Akyol had this to say:
>
> I fail to see how this helps reliability in the case of ISP "routing
> instability" I believe that last year one large ISP lost almost all of its
> Bay Area connectivity and had a network meltdown due to "routing
> instabilities" (whatever that means).
multi-homing may not help much if the [X] ISPs you're connected to get their
connectivity from the same NSP and that NSP has issues (as you noted below)
...
> If you are running a mission critical network, I think you have no choice to
> be multi-homed to at least two ISPS preferably not residing on the same
> conduit that they both lease from the same transport network.
as opposed to those of us multi-homing our mp3 file servers for maximum
reliability ... ;)
> Bora
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