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Re: FIBER CUT: Dallas to West Coast

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Thu Aug 30 02:49:19 2001

Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:47:59 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Brian Whalen wrote:

>
> Agreed, everyone has circuit failures.  I was just making a not so subtle
> reference to the huge multihoming thread going on, by stating that a user
> multihomed with multiple providers gives themselves a better survival

You have to make sure that the different providers you're using are not
sharing any part of their infrastructure though. I've had instances where
both links into a place goes down because they somewhere on the way there
shared who they bought some connectivity/capacity from, or went in the
same pipe or whatever that was severed.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se


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