[53527] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Simulated disaster exercise? Re: PAIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Feldman)
Sun Nov 17 10:22:28 2002
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 07:21:46 -0800
From: Steve Feldman <feldman@twincreeks.net>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20021117051043.GA2456@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 12:10:43AM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 10:00:07PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
> >
> > The usual response was it only affected the public exchange fabric, not
> > any private point-to-point circuits between providers through the same
> > facility.
>
> But if we're going to compare this to MAE Gigaswitch failures, shouldn't
> we be talking apples to apples and oranges to oranges?
In this case, the MAE was a banana: Worldcom always officially discouraged
private interconnects among colocated routers.
Steve
