[55706] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cascading Failures Could Crash the Global Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Lamoureux)
Sat Feb 8 22:51:03 2003
To: sgorman1@gmu.edu
Cc: Douglas Denault <doug@safeport.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: lamour@UU.NET
From: Michael Lamoureux <lamour@mail.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Date: 08 Feb 2003 22:49:43 -0500
In-Reply-To: sgorman1@gmu.edu's message of "Sat, 08 Feb 2003 17:34:11 -0800"
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
"sgorman1" == sgorman1 <sgorman1@gmu.edu> writes:
sgorman1> Homogenous, in this context, does not mean similar platform
sgorman1> connectivity, but nodes with same degree connecting to each
sgorman1> other.
Ah, that makes it more clear. So a full mesh would be better? ;-)
sgorman1> Lots of problems in applying that to cascading failures in
sgorman1> reality - making AS701 disappear, BGP allowing a cascading
sgorman1> traffic failure from "having to redistribute" AS701's
sgorman1> traffic etc etc. Hope that makes it more clear, but it is
sgorman1> just my interpretation of someone elses work.
Yeah, I have all sorts of problems with applying this model to
reality. But then, we already determined that I was being stupid. ;-)
thanks,
Michael
