Cascading Failures Could Crash the Global Internet

Rubens Kuhl Jr. rkjnanog at ieg.com.br
Thu Feb 6 22:02:57 UTC 2003



BGP flap limiting may be correlated to this action... the good thing about
packets is that they don't require energy to be dropped; electricity needs
to be consumed somewhere, probably generating heat.


Rubens


----- Original Message -----
From: "N. Richard Solis" <nrsolis at aol.net>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean at donelan.com>
Cc: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: Cascading Failures Could Crash the Global Internet


| I don't know of too many electrical distribution networks that use DC
interconnection to limit AC failures from propogating.
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| The main cause of AC disruption is a power plant getting out of phase with
the rest of the power plants on the grid.  When that happens, the plant
"trips" of goes off-line to protect the entire grid.  You lose some
generating capacity but you dont fry everything on the network either.
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| http://www.nerc.com/
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| There are some states that operate their own grids.  Texas, for example.
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| -Richard
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| Sean Donelan wrote:
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|   Sigh, there are differences between tightly coupled networks, such as
|   the electric power grid and loosely couple networks like the Internet.
|   But there are also some similarities, such as electric grids use DC
|   interconnections to limit how far AC disturbances propagate; the
|   Internet uses AS interconnections to limit IGP disturbances from
|   propagating.
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|   http://sci.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20686.html
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|   The actual article requires payment to read
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