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Re: routing around Sprint's depeering damage
- From: Michael Thomas
- Date: Sun Nov 02 10:35:02 2008
Matthew Kaufman wrote:
James Jun wrote:
As much as we blame Cogent and Sprint for breaking the internet, I
also have
no sympathy for individual single-homed downstream customers on either
networks. If you are complaining about Sprint<->Cogent depeering and have
customers demanding for your mission-critical services, then you are
just as
negligent to not have multihomed before all of this happened. ...
Ah yes, I suspect we can get all the network operators here to agree
that any customer of another ISP should buy a second connection "just in
case". Maybe this breakage will turn out to be the best way for everyone
to double their customer base overnight.
I have a probably dumb question. Even if a company were of large enough
wallet to have, say, a single redundant connection, how could it
evaluate the partition problem in order to choose the "best" connection
(where "best" is a function of overall connectivity, say) ? It seems to
me that that's a really, really hard problem. And surely isn't a static
one-off kind of calculation, right?
Mike
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