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Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset)
From: Alex Bligh <alex () alex org uk>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 21:48:50 +0100
--On Tuesday, 25 September, 2001 1:18 PM -0700 Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:
note that richer meshes may increase forwarding reliability but they exacerbate routing convergence problems. see abha's nanog presentation.
&, particularly where such meshes are formed in part from multiple providers, the probability of the types of critical errors caused by the failure of any one the providers (as opposed to those which require all of the providers to go down). [trivial example: most people don't filter their upstreams at all. if you have n upstreams, then if any one gets hacked and decides to send 100,000,000 routes at you, you die. Probability increases with n] Alex Bligh Personal Capacity
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- Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset), (continued)
- Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) Grant A. Kirkwood (Sep 24)
- Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) Bob Bownes (Sep 24)
- Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) Sean Donelan (Sep 24)
- Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) Grant A. Kirkwood (Sep 24)
- Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) Chris Woodfield (Sep 24)
- Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) bmanning (Sep 24)
- Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) Sean Donelan (Sep 25)
- Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) batz (Sep 25)
- Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) Peter van Dijk (Sep 25)
- Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) Randy Bush (Sep 25)
- Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) Alex Bligh (Sep 25)
- Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) Joseph T. Klein (Sep 25)
- RE: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) Matt Levine (Sep 24)
- Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) mike harrison (Sep 24)
- Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) E.B. Dreger (Sep 24)
- RE: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) Timothy R. McKee (Sep 24)
- RE: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) Vivien M. (Sep 24)
- RE: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) Joel Jaeggli (Sep 24)
- Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) Adam Rothschild (Sep 24)
- Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) ray (Sep 25)
- Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) Sean Donelan (Sep 24)