multi-homing fixes

Tue Aug 28 14:32:59 UTC 2001

On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:56:51PM -0400, Mark Radabaugh - Amplex wrote:
> The only reason we multihomed to 2xT1 rather than adding additional
> capacity with our first provider lack of clue.  Minimum downtime for ANY

While there is a great lack of clue in many locations, don't forget 
the bean counters/marketing/sales.

In an outage, virtually all ISP's prioritize customer restoriation,
and sometimes the quality of the engineer working the incident by
the size of the circuit (which presumably translates into $$$'s,
but that's a whole different tarball).  Thus, one could conclude
that the lowest speed circuits get the "worst" service, and thus
those with the smallest bandwidth needs have the largest need to
multihome.

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Leo Bicknell - bicknell at ufp.org
Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440
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