Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:55:11 -1000, Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:

> > According to the wikipedia's quote of WHO the weighted average
> > mortality rate, which would be across 50 human cases, is 66% in 2006,
> > and 56% across all 194 cases reported since 2004.
> >
> >                   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1
>
> is this different if you run is-is as opposed to ospf?
>
> as is-is is not over ip, perhaps virii at the ip layer
> are less of a worry to larger isps (who mostly run is-is)?
IS-IS can carry retroviruses, which are RNA-based.

This discussion did start out with operational content....

                --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb