[43597] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: LINX outage on Tuesday
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Cooper)
Fri Oct 19 17:02:54 2001
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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:01:57 -0700
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: Ian Cooper <ian@the-coopers.org>
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At 16:44 -0400 2001-10-19, Sean Donelan wrote:
>According to news reports the LINX exchange experienced
>a broadcast flood. Its been a few years since I've heard
>about a broadcast flood at a major exchange, so its nice
>to hear about a traditional problem.
>
>http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171318.html
>
>One question, as I understand the LINX set up, it consists
>of two logical/physical networks using different vendors
>and hardware. Did the broadcast storm take out both?
According to the following article, no:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22305.html
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