[98686] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Aug 15 13:36:16 2007
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>, Stephen Wilcox <steve.wilcox@packetrade.com>,
Chengchen Hu <huc@ieee.org>, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:59:54 EDT."
<Pine.GSO.4.64.0708151149020.4450@clifden.donelan.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:50:42 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:59:54 EDT, Sean Donelan said:
> Since major events in the real-world also result in a lot of "new"
> traffic, how do you signal new sessions before they reach the affected
> region of the network? Can you use BGP to signal the far-reaches of
> the Internet that I'm having problems, and other ASNs should start slowing
> things down before they reach my region (security can-o-worms being
> opened).
I'm more worried about state getting "stuck", kind of like the total inability
of the DHS worry-o-meter to move lower than yellow.
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