[59295] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Router crash unplugs 1m Swedish Internet users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mans Nilsson)
Tue Jun 24 01:09:03 2003
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:08:00 +0200
From: Mans Nilsson <mansaxel@sunet.se>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Subject: Router crash unplugs 1m Swedish Internet users Date: Mon, Jun 23, =
2003 at 04:24:27PM -0400 Quoting Sean Donelan (sean@donelan.com):
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> Has anyone heard what the cause of the outage was?
Mikael wrote about memory shortage. I have heard the same -- though
not from press contacts but from staff. It was worded (but in
swedish, so bear with my translation): "The official reason is
'memory shortage'. I do believe it is correct."
There have been words in the grapevine about not going for full memory on=
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line cards and RP, for "optimisation reasons". Sounds like a fine recipe=20
for promoting cascading failures from a fragile base config.=20
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M=E5ns Nilsson Systems Specialist
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MN1334-RIPE
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