Effects of de-peering... (was RE: ratios)

[James Smith <jsmith () PRESIDIO com>]

> > I apologize in advance, I'm a total newbie...so what did you have to do?
>
> Build resilience into his single homed, single point of failure
> non-redundant network.
>
> Steve
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Maybe it is possible he made a business decision based on the long term
costs involved with multihoming/redundancy vs. the loss of near total
reachability. He may have come to the conclusion that the probability of
that scenario occuring was not sufficient reason to multihome. His call.

I think we all assume that our provider "guarantees" us some sort of "total
reachability". Near as I can figure, they do not. Therefore, you buy a pipe
into their network based on percieved and actual connectivity and hope that
the situation remains static at best. Does ANY provider give a
"reachability" guarantee?


James H. Smith II NNCDS NNCSE
Systems Engineer
The Presidio Corporation
So I'm top posting. Sue me.