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Re: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL)
From: "Petri Helenius" <pete () he iki fi>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 23:32:23 +0300
The assumption that it was untested is probably an unfair one. Once a network reaches a certain size, it is very difficult to simulate it in a lab. Number of routes/updates, variety of packet destinations, different card revisions and layouts... heck, even statistically, you have problems. An issue that appears 5% of the time will only show up in a a 10-router test lab half the time, but in a 400-router network it'll pop up on about 20 routers and wreck your whole day. And when you're out of cash, you can't really afford to devote lots of hardware to a lab.
Having a lab does help you but usually (this might be different if you are WorldCom) vendors are not too interested in fixing problems you unearth in a lab but instead only agree to raise priority of issues if their boxes fail in production. I´ve been hearing that the change in economic situation has been improving the response, but haven´t tried it personally. Not too many years back, a "P2 case" could take a year to get a fix where "P3" rested in never-never land longer. "P1" worked. Pete
Current thread:
- UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL), (continued)
- UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL) Sean Donelan (Oct 04)
- Re: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL) Tim Thorne (Oct 05)
- Re: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL) Sean Donelan (Oct 05)
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- Re: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL) Vicky O. Mair (Oct 06)
- Re: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL) alex (Oct 07)
- Re: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL) Sean Donelan (Oct 07)
- RE: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL) Cleve Mickles (Oct 07)
- Re: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL) Jared Mauch (Oct 07)
- RE: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL) Ryan Fox (Oct 07)
- Re: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL) Dave Israel (Oct 07)
- Re: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL) Petri Helenius (Oct 07)
- Re: UUNET Routing issues Petri Helenius (Oct 04)
- Re: UUNET Routing issues Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 04)
- Re: UUNET Routing issues Petri Helenius (Oct 04)
- Re: UUNET Routing issues Iljitsch van Beijnum (Oct 04)
- Re: UUNET Routing issues Rafi Sadowsky (Oct 05)
- Re: UUNET Routing issues Iljitsch van Beijnum (Oct 05)
- Re: UUNET Routing issues Marshall Eubanks (Oct 05)
- Re: UUNET Routing issues Petri Helenius (Oct 05)
- Re: UUNET Routing issues Stephen Sprunk (Oct 03)
- Re: UUNET Routing issues Scott Granados (Oct 06)