[89992] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Is your ISP Influenza-ready?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Greene (bgreene))
Mon Apr 17 16:30:51 2006
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:30:21 -0700
From: "Barry Greene (bgreene)" <bgreene@cisco.com>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>,
"Jared Mauch" <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: <David_Hankins@isc.org>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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> (Back in the days of dial-up, I had a lot of trouble=20
> connecting to Bell Labs on snow days. No rule, and the place=20
> was officially open for business. But everyone just did the=20
> rational thing.)
I think the point is to start capacity and contingency planning now. Is
your VPN infrastructure set up to have every employee connecting back to
the office? Are your upstreams sized to take this load? Are you VPN
concentrators sized to take this load?
