[98677] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: inter-domain link recovery
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Aug 15 11:06:10 2007
To: michael.dillon@bt.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:15:01 BST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:48:51 -0400
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On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:15:01 BST, michael.dillon@bt.com said:
> telecom hotel/data centre. In the exchange point, you could
> theoretically have special "INSURANCE" peering agreements where you
> don't exchange traffic until there is an emergency, and then you can
> quickly turn it on, perhaps using an automated tool.
And then there's the fun of doing actual live fall-over testing to make
sure it works as intended. (I wonder how many people who multi-home for
outage survival actually *test* their multi on a reasonably regular basis?)
And as Michael noted, this only works in a telcom hotel, where you don't
have to pay for dark fiber from your site to the connection point...
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