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Richard Irving rirving at antient.org
Fri Dec 17 19:20:13 UTC 2004


Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that the percentage
> of link failures over router failures is much, much higher.
> - ferg

    I'll go out on a limb and suggest...
you weren't working in BGP during 1995-1998.

    :P

(Or RIP in 1992-1993, DVMRP in 1997-1999:)

> -- William Allen Simpson <wsimpson at greendragon.com> wrote:
> 
> In 25+ years, I've not found that router failure was a major or even
> interesting problem.  Link failures are probably 80%.
> 
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>  fergdawg at netzero.net or
>  fergdawg at sbcglobal.net



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