[57460] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dual node vs "Reliable IP" Architecture
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Thu Apr 10 17:26:09 2003
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:16:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@sockeye.com>
To: "Peter E. Fry" <pfry@swbell.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <3E9590B7.F09A58E4@swbell.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Peter E. Fry wrote:
> Apparently your skeweree was insufficiently armored -- an obvious
> design flaw.
LOL, indeed.
> Where do you draw the line? Probability trees aside, you design your
> system and take your chances.
Of course, you just do the best you can do with the budget that you have
and the business requirements. To date I haven't seen a significant
benefit to using an integrated redundant device, all things considered.
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Brandon Ross AIM: BrandonNR
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