Anycast 101

Fri Dec 17 19:31:06 UTC 2004

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Richard Irving
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 2:20 PM
> To: Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
> Cc: wsimpson at greendragon.com; nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Anycast 101
> 
> 
> 
> 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:)

Link outages are higher than router failures when you 
subtract "human error" RFO's.

Overall, "fat fingers" account for the larger percentage
of all outages.

-M<