[88957] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Templin)
Sun Feb 26 08:54:10 2006
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 07:53:40 -0600
From: Pete Templin <petelists@templin.org>
To: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <005a01c63a45$96915860$6401a8c0@ssprunk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>> An argument could be made for individual VLANs to keep things like b-
>> cast storms isolated. But I think the additional complexity will
>> cause more problems than it will solve.
> One must keep in mind that human error is the dominant cause of outages,
> and since there's not likely to be backhoes running around in a data
> center, IMHO the goal should be to remove as many ways as possible that
> your coworkers can muck things up.
Individual PTP links means a muckup probably affects only two devices.
Switched LANs means a muckup possibly affects all devices (on one of the
LANs), and not all of them may detect the problem at the same time.
pt
