[57439] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dual node vs "Reliable IP" Architecture
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Thu Apr 10 11:04:44 2003
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:03:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@sockeye.com>
To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>
Cc: Pete Kruckenberg <pete@kruckenberg.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030410091655.5AA604971@genesis.DOMINO.ORG>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Neil J. McRae wrote:
> > Anyone doing this in their network? Is there validity in the
> > claims in this white paper? Anyone looked at the Alcatel
> > product that apparently funded this paper?
>
> I'd believe the numbers in this, what I don't believe yet
> though is that there are products available that true give
> the same level of redundancy that having two boxes does...
I've always found that these types of papers and products always miss one
big area of failure, at least in my experience. What happens when the
highly redundant device is skewered by a fork lift? Yes, I've had this
happen. At least if you have a dual router config, and separate those
routers physically, you have a chance of surviving such problems.
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Brandon Ross AIM: BrandonNR
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