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Article #1275Re: What does this traceroute mean?
From: Samuel Lam
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 00:00
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In article <4ec55q$6mk@morgoth.sfu.ca>, vanepp@news.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp) wrote: >In any case, CA*net has 2 more T3s to the US in Eastern Canada (one in >Toronto and one in Montreal), and in theory (and probably in practice, >the routing gods willing) a BCnet site can use all of these. The Toronto one only if the Vancouver one is down. And the Montreal one only if both the Vancouver and Toronto ones are down. So yes, you could use the other two, but only one at a time, and only when yours is down. Keep in mind that it's BGP4 on the exterior with MED to specify preferences on a per-prefix basis. Global internet routing is still in its infancy when compared to what the telephone industry had gone through. Internet = neo-Phone (telephone of the 90's) ...Sam -- <skl@ScalableNetwork.com> -- Scalable Network Systems Ltd.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106393,f883634f02a18f6d X-Google-Attributes: gid106393,public From: skl@ScalableNetwork.com (Samuel Lam) Subject: Re: What does this traceroute mean? Date: 1996/01/28 Message-ID: <4efe1h$eh@vanbc.wimsey.com> X-Deja-AN: 136832780 sender: skl@wimsey.com references: <4e1lrq$764@fountain.mindlink.net> <4e1o23$fn@morgoth.sfu.ca> <4ebpi4$fkh@fountain.mindlink.net> <4ec55q$6mk@morgoth.sfu.ca> organization: Scalable Network Systems Ltd. reply-to: skl@ScalableNetwork.com (Samuel Lam) newsgroups: bc.bcnet