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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
VP Operations                                                    ICQ:  2269442
Sockeye Networks


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