[50826] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Sat Aug 10 11:21:13 2002
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 11:20:44 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3D552C91.B6B5EAAC@he.iki.fi>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 06:09:05PM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:
>
> If the software MTBF would be better, convergence would not be an issue.
> As long as it's an operational hazard to run core boxes (with some
> vendors anyway) with older piece of code than six months, you end up
> engineering convergence into the networks.
Odd, I think most people would say it's an operational hazard to run code
newer than 6 months old, or at least with less than 6 months of testing on
any particular image.
How they're able to completely break so many critically important things
within 2 weeks between a bugfix code rev is still beyond me. :)
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