[68088] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kuhtz, Christian)
Tue Mar 2 13:28:53 2004
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:27:44 -0600
From: "Kuhtz, Christian" <christian.kuhtz@BELLSOUTH.COM>
To: "Jared Mauch" <jared@puck.nether.net>,
"David Meyer" <dmm@1-4-5.net>
Cc: "Jared Mauch" <jared@puck.nether.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> If events are not properly triggered back upstream (ie:=20
> adjencies stay up, bgp remains fairly stable) and you end up=20
> dumping a lot of traffic on the floor, it's sometimes a bit=20
> more dificult to diagnose than loss of light on a physical path.
>=20
> On the sunny side, I see this improving over time. =20
> Software bugs will be squashed. Poorly designed networks=20
> will be reconfigured to better handle these situations.
But this happens everywhere, everyday, regardless of the underlying
technology.
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