Faster 'Net growth rate raises fears about routers

Mon Apr 2 21:35:08 UTC 2001

>From the article:

<quote>
"Half of the companies that are multihomed should have gotten better service
from their providers," says Patrik Faltstrom, a Cisco engineer and co-chair
of the IETF's Applications Area. "ISPs haven't done a good enough job
explaining to their customers that they don't need to multihome."
</quote>

>From what I just went through (DSLnetworks v Covad), this is straight
bulldust. Had I been properly multi-homed, MHSC would NOT have been down for
5 weeks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hank Nussbacher [mailto:hank at att.net.il]
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 4:16 AM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Faster 'Net growth rate raises fears about routers
> 
> 
> 
> I have a feeling this one may start another very large NANOG thread:
> 
> http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0402routing.html
> 
> -Hank
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> 