effects of NYC power outage

Mon Jul 22 13:07:41 UTC 2002

> You should also look at the other two presentations
> on 9/11 and the Internet
> at that meeting :
> 
> http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/agenda.html
     BGP stability was normal on 9/11. As we know only
the telephone network suffered more whereas internet
remained stable. Their might have been some problems
in the access because of the flash crowd problem.

    A particular slide from the nanog 23 presentation
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/ppt/misconfig/sld010.htm
shows the behaviour on 9/11.

   Just observe closely the slide in the above link.
It covers a period from a period from 8/1 to 9/26 and
there was variation of 40-60 prefixes (between aug and
september), except on 9/11 (there was 100 changes.)
Only 0.1%  of the route table was lost. 

   BGP was more unstable during code red
propagation(http://www.renesys.com/projects/bgp_instability/.)
A quick peek into both the graphs will make one thing
clear: *BGP is robust enough to withstand any extreme
congestion.*
  But the question is: what can be an effective
solution for access congestion on days like 9/11?

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