[76619] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anycast 101
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Irving)
Fri Dec 17 14:21:02 2004
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:20:13 -0500
From: Richard Irving <rirving@antient.org>
To: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: wsimpson@greendragon.com, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20041217.080856.9114.44746@webmail01.lax.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that the percentage
> of link failures over router failures is much, much higher.
> - ferg
I'll go out on a limb and suggest...
you weren't working in BGP during 1995-1998.
:P
(Or RIP in 1992-1993, DVMRP in 1997-1999:)
> -- William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com> wrote:
>
> In 25+ years, I've not found that router failure was a major or even
> interesting problem. Link failures are probably 80%.
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> fergdawg@netzero.net or
> fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
