Netcom Outage (Was: My InfoWorld Column About NANOG)

Sat Jun 22 00:48:25 UTC 1996

At 06:35 PM 6/21/96 -0400, Stephen Balbach wrote:

>
>Having a fully meshed/redundant network should be the goal of any serious
>ISP. The only one that claims it with any substance IMO is UUNET.  We are
>trying to build one and its not easy.  Haveing redundant links in place
>does not guarantee instant fall over of traffic. Static routes, IGRP,
>iBGP, bridgeing, rip1 vs rip2, etc. are some of the issues we are running
>into. As well as when an interface is down, but actually looks up to the
>router, etc..it can be done, but there are so many possible points of
>failure and unforseen scenarios, it is very difficult to construct and
>certainly takes time to develop.
>

This is where having an excellent engineering staff pays off.  :-)

- paul