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At 06:35 PM 6/21/96 -0400, Stephen Balbach wrote: > >Having a fully meshed/redundant network should be the goal of any serious >ISP. The only one that claims it with any substance IMO is UUNET. We are >trying to build one and its not easy. Haveing redundant links in place >does not guarantee instant fall over of traffic. Static routes, IGRP, >iBGP, bridgeing, rip1 vs rip2, etc. are some of the issues we are running >into. As well as when an interface is down, but actually looks up to the >router, etc..it can be done, but there are so many possible points of >failure and unforseen scenarios, it is very difficult to construct and >certainly takes time to develop. > This is where having an excellent engineering staff pays off. :-) - paul - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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