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Re: LINX outage on Tuesday

  • From: Ian Cooper
  • Date: Fri Oct 19 17:04:54 2001 
At 16:44 -0400 2001-10-19, Sean Donelan wrote:

According to news reports the LINX exchange experienced
a broadcast flood.  Its been a few years since I've heard
about a broadcast flood at a major exchange, so its nice
to hear about a traditional problem.

http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171318.html

One question, as I understand the LINX set up, it consists
of two logical/physical networks using different vendors
and hardware.  Did the broadcast storm take out both?

According to the following article, no:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22305.html
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