RE: Anycast 101

["Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan () verisign com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
> Richard Irving
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 2:20 PM
> To: Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
> Cc: wsimpson () greendragon com; nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: Anycast 101
>
>
>
> Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> > I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that the percentage
> > of link failures over router failures is much, much higher.
> > - ferg
>
>     I'll go out on a limb and suggest...
> you weren't working in BGP during 1995-1998.
>
>     :P
>
> (Or RIP in 1992-1993, DVMRP in 1997-1999:)

Link outages are higher than router failures when you 
subtract "human error" RFO's.


Overall, "fat fingers" account for the larger percentage
of all outages.

-M<