Re: Cascading Failures Could Crash the Global Internet

2003-02-09 Thread Jack Bates
From: Stewart, William C (Bill), SALES I think the key is that the failures described in the paper are caused by overload rather than other things - too much demand for power blows out the generator, and without it, the grid tries to get the power from the next nearest generators, which

RE: OT: 111 8th Ave. Parking

2003-02-09 Thread Phil Rosenthal
it's been a while, but i used to park in the lot underneath the building. richard -- Richard Welty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security Be warned, there are quite a few stories with severe automotive abuse

Re: Cascading Failures Could Crash the Global Internet

2003-02-09 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Hello; A packet switched network can be engineered against cascading failures in a way that's hard for a circuit switched network. Every time you see a random wait in a protocol, it's a good bet that the protocol writers were trying to protect against the tight coupling that leads to cascading

Re: Cascading Failures Could Crash the Global Internet

2003-02-09 Thread Paul Vixie
Homogenous, in this context, does not mean similar platform connectivity, but nodes with same degree connecting to each other. Ah, that makes it more clear. So a full mesh would be better? ;-) no, fine grained peering would be better. -- Paul Vixie

Singing the Southwest Networking Blues

2003-02-09 Thread Paul Caskey
Out in the badlands of New Mexido where the tumbleweeds blow, Tier 1 POPs are nowhere to be seen. I get long-hauled to a different state just for an Internet T1 from UUNET. Unfortunately, Albuquerque is an important business hub in my company, and we have several locations in NM CO. But the

E-bay problem.

2003-02-09 Thread Shaun Bryant
Does anyone have a security contact at ebay that can be reached at this hour? Thanks Shaun