17 Dec
2004
17 Dec
'04
7:31 p.m.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Richard Irving Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 2:20 PM To: Fergie (Paul Ferguson) Cc: wsimpson@greendragon.com; nanog@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<