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Re: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-30 18:41:45
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

And if you had the PI space, why would you bother? Contrary to some
reports multihoming using independent address space and links to more
than one ISP works fairly well: failover times are almost always
shorter than TCP or user timeouts.

I assume you mean failovers from first hop links failing, because
end-to-end failures cannot be detected faster than a timeout.

~armando

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