[47658] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Qwest outage In NY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Streiner, Justin)
Wed May 8 15:56:54 2002
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 15:53:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Streiner, Justin" <streiner@stargate.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, 8 May 2002, Patrick McEvilly wrote:
> Let me clarify, our directly connected Qwest router was not under DOS attack
> so BGP stayed up and we had a full routing table. The router that got hosed
> was 3 router hops into their backbone and it was definitely hosed good. :-)
Sounds like another point for the whole argument for separate management
networks and separation of the device control plane from the route
processor/packet forwarding plane. Nice to know some of the big guys
don't quite do it either ;-)
jms
