4 Nov
2008
4 Nov
'08
10:52 a.m.
On Nov 4, 2008, at 9:49 AM, David Freedman wrote:
2. The Internet cannot "route around" de-peering I know everyone believes "the Internet routes around failures". While occasionally true, it does not hold in this case. To "route around" the "failure" would require transit. See item #1.
The internet "routes around" technical failures, not political ones.
If two transit free networks have a technical failure which disables all peering between them, the Internet cannot route around it. Intention is not the gating factor here. Intention just -guarantees- a problem exists, turning off BGP sessions and/or light is still the base problem. :-) -- TTFN, patrick