[53876] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Risk of Internet collapse grows
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Mon Dec 2 06:56:48 2002
From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>, <Michael.Dillon@radianz.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 13:56:01 +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> I had a look at your map of Ebone Europe through the browse button on your
> website. This displayed a messy meshy network that connected all the major
> cities of Europe. However, in fact, Ebone's network was a nice clean
> ringed network connecting all the major cities of Europe. It's true that
> Ebone's marketing map had some innacuracies but it still more or less
> showed the same network of sub-rings hanging off of a core ring.
Maybe you´re referring to the physical topology. Rocketfuel measured
the IP topology.
>
> I just don't see how an outside probe can determine the true topology of a
> network.
>
Maybe not to 100% but definetly more than most ISP´s are handing out.
Pete
