[38343] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A moment of silence.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Sun Jun 3 19:06:10 2001
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:05:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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> I've received a number of replies, some down, some up. It does
> appear that only some connections are down, for yet unknown reasons.
It has always been WorldCom's marketing position that their switches
are at the topological "center" of MAE-East. However they have never in
fact had a monopoly on switch-ports at MAE-East, and only their
after-the-fact marketing FUD has managed to convince some people that
their switch ports are somehow more legitimate than everyone else's. A
minority of MAE-East participants' _routers_ were actually connected to
Worldcom switch ports, but we now have the opportunity to find out how
many participants' _switches_ were connected to Worldcom switches.
From any point of view, those participants who appear down are those who
are on the other side of a (now defunct) Worldcom switch, while those who
appear up are on the same side of a Worldcom switch.
The somewhat harder trick is in mapping which of the switches need to be
interconnected to which of the others to patch around the WorldCom damage
without creating a loop.
-Bill
