> From [email protected] Mon Jan 25 19:56:46 2016 > > On 25/Jan/16 21:28, Brandon Butterworth wrote: > > It is but nobody worries about that, we trust route servers at IX > > carrying way more traffic than most of these access circuits. > > Yes, but if those go belly-up, you have another exchange point to fall > back to, a bi-lateral peering session, or an upstream provider. Or all > three.
Doesn't matter, if traffic is blackholed at an ix then it won't be failing over to another one. Same effect > A "critical" device falling over in my network is far worse prospect to > experience. The general case doesn't care about your network, it assumes you'd engineer that appropriately for the criticality and do something different/better if you need to. brandon
