[98876] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Does anyone multihome anymore? (was: Re: Cogent latency /
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tancsa)
Wed Aug 22 09:48:49 2007
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:46:16 -0400
To: "Security Admin (NetSec)" <secadmin@netsecdesign.com>,
nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <8D870AB38C30EC4C848A11A3F83D20D8061C2BC8C8@exchange2007.mm
icmanhomenet.local>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 03:49 AM 8/22/2007, Security Admin (NetSec) wrote:
>Pardon my forwardness, but don't people just multi-home these days? If your
Multihoming is great for when there is a total outage. In the case
of Cogent on Monday, it wasnt "down"... In this case, there is only
so much you can do to influence how packets come back at you as BGP
doesnt know anything about a "lossy" or slow connections.
---Mike
