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Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom

  • From: Jay R. Ashworth
  • Date: Wed Jul 16 23:36:00 1997 
On Wed, Jul 16, 1997 at 05:00:02PM -0400, Dorian R. Kim wrote:
> And you haven't checked since? In my experience, path redundancy doesn't stay
> that way. Either the first or second round of grooming in carrier network
> eliminates the path redundancy, and I don't know if it's possible to win
> against the transmissions people about that.. We've fought with carriers about
> that for a very long time, and didn't get anywhere..

Shouldn't/Don't carriers flag paths that are part of path redundancy
links to avoid automatically re-routing them?

Cheers,
-- jra
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