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RE: Qwest outage In NY

  • From: Streiner, Justin
  • Date: Wed May 08 15:58:48 2002 
On Wed, 8 May 2002, Patrick McEvilly wrote:

> Let me clarify, our directly connected Qwest router was not under DOS attack
> so BGP stayed up and we had a full routing table.  The router that got hosed
> was 3 router hops into their backbone and it was definitely hosed good.  :-)

Sounds like another point for the whole argument for separate management
networks and separation of the device control plane from the route
processor/packet forwarding plane.  Nice to know some of the big guys
don't quite do it either ;-)

jms