[53797] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spanning tree melt down ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Gauthier)
Wed Nov 27 11:11:22 2002
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:10:44 -0500
From: Eric Gauthier <eric@roxanne.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <web-1523579@multicasttech.com>; from tme@multicasttech.com on Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:17:06AM -0500
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> Anyone have any idea what really happened :
> http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/330/science/Got_paper_+.shtml
I know someone who worked on it, but I've avoided asking what
really happened so I don't freak out the day the ambulence drives
me up to their emergency room :) The other day, I did forward the article
over to our medical school in the hopes that they might "check" their
network for similar "issues" before something happens :)
I don't know which scares me more: that the hospital messed up spanning-tree
so badly (which means they likely had it turned off) that it imploded
their entire network. Or that it took them 4 days to figure it out.
Eric :)
