Links on the blink - what will/should mci & sprint do?

Curtis Villamizar curtis at ans.net
Tue Nov 28 05:46:06 UTC 1995


In message <199511271834.KAA00275 at greatdane.cisco.com>, Tony Li writes:
> 
> Mike,
> 
> If we were to seriously adopt the strategy of forwarding even when the
> destination appears down, it would be necessary to support this in the
> routing protocols to insure loop avoidance.  This is not out of the
> realm of theoretical possibility.  However, we're NOT there today.
> 
> Tony


Good thing too.  Sounds like one of the worst ideas you've had in a
very long time.

Curtis



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