Re: Katrina Network Damage Report

[George William Herbert <gherbert () retro com>]

Randy wrote:
> George William Herbert <gherbert () retro com>
> > Looking at the routing tables you see failures.  If a prefix
> > goes away completely and utterly, and is truly unreachable,
> > then anyone trying to see it is going to see an outage.
>
> not if a covering or more specific tells us how to get packets
> to the destination.  but perhaps that's what you mean by a
> prefix being unreachable and i am being too picky.


Yes, to clarify, by "completely and utterly" i mean not just
the prefix that you saw drop, but more specific and more general routes
that you may have access to as well.


-george william herbert
gherbert () retro com