Re: Anycast 101

[Richard Irving <rirving () antient org>]

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:)

> -- William Allen Simpson <wsimpson () greendragon com> wrote:
>
> In 25+ years, I've not found that router failure was a major or even
> interesting problem.  Link failures are probably 80%.
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>  fergdawg () netzero net or
>  fergdawg () sbcglobal net