[52406] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Core Routing - Ethernet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Mon Sep 30 12:10:12 2002
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk@cisco.com>
To: "Bob Martinez" <bobmartinezzz@hotmail.com>, <alex@yuriev.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:09:02 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thus spake "Bob Martinez" <bobmartinezzz@hotmail.com>
> You are the guy that posted about IBGP Nailed Routes. I love that idea. I
> understand your love of L3 and your design is great; however, as a service
> provider, you can't always rely on IP.
As an ISP, your job is to provide IP. If you -- much less your customers --
can't rely on your IP service, you'll soon be toast in the marketplace.
> What about Global Ethernet? The NY, Paris, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore,
> Frankfurt, Moscow, Bankok, Sydney, Hong Kong, London, Cairo, Los
> Angeles, Jerusalem, Toronto, Mexico City, Rio (Can I manage this one?)
> Internet Exchange?
And one errant BPDU can take down your entire network. You're going to need a
bunch of PhD-level guys in your NOC with that design.
> Simple like you said. Gotta work on the reliability part though.
You're just now thinking about reliability after you've finalized your design?
Stop, you're killing me...
S
