Re: FIBER CUT: Dallas to West Coast

[Brian Whalen <bri () sonicboom org>]

Agreed, everyone has circuit failures.  I was just making a not so subtle
reference to the huge multihoming thread going on, by stating that a user
multihomed with multiple providers gives themselves a better survival
chance against this type of thing.  Backhoes, trains, buses, union
strikes, power failures.  Pick your enemy..

Brian "Sonic" Whalen
Success = Preparation + Opportunity


On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Patrick Greenwell wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Brian Whalen wrote:
>
> > Routing around the problem, what a concept.  More backup for the 2xt1 shop
> > to contimue doing it..
>
> I'm still awaiting the list of providers that never have a circuit go
> down. :-)