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On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 08:13:59AM -0700, Bora Akyol had this to say: > > I fail to see how this helps reliability in the case of ISP "routing > instability" I believe that last year one large ISP lost almost all of its > Bay Area connectivity and had a network meltdown due to "routing > instabilities" (whatever that means). multi-homing may not help much if the [X] ISPs you're connected to get their connectivity from the same NSP and that NSP has issues (as you noted below) ... > If you are running a mission critical network, I think you have no choice to > be multi-homed to at least two ISPS preferably not residing on the same > conduit that they both lease from the same transport network. as opposed to those of us multi-homing our mp3 file servers for maximum reliability ... ;) > Bora -- Scott Francis [email protected] [work:] v i r t u a l i s . c o m Systems Analyst [email protected] [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t PGP fingerprint 7ABF E2E9 CD54 A1A8 804D 179A 8802 0FBA CB33 CCA7 illum oportet crescere me autem minui
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