25 Jan
2016
25 Jan
'16
5:28 p.m.
From mark.tinka@seacom.mu Mon Jan 25 19:56:46 2016
On 25/Jan/16 21:28, Brandon Butterworth wrote: It is but nobody worries about that, we trust route servers at IX carrying way more traffic than most of these access circuits.
Yes, but if those go belly-up, you have another exchange point to fall back to, a bi-lateral peering session, or an upstream provider. Or all three.
Doesn't matter, if traffic is blackholed at an ix then it won't be failing over to another one. Same effect
A "critical" device falling over in my network is far worse prospect to experience.
The general case doesn't care about your network, it assumes you'd engineer that appropriately for the criticality and do something different/better if you need to. brandon