I have seen nation state disconnects where light is lost. Jared Mauch
On Jan 28, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Jake Khuon <kh...@neebu.net> wrote: > >> I guess this begs the question of whether or not we're seeing actual >> layer1 going down or just the effects of mass BGP withdrawals. Are we >> seeing lights out on fibre links or just peering sessions going down? >> Both could still point to a coordinated intentional blackout by the >> Egyptian gov't though. > > out of curiousity, what's the difference though between loss of light > and peer shutdown? If the local gov't comes in and says: "Make the > internets go down", you as the op choose how to do that... NOT getting > calls from your peer for interface alarms is probably sane. You can > simply drop your routes, leave BGP running even and roll ... > > If it's clear (and it seems to be) that the issue is a > nation-state-decision... implementation (how it's done, no IF it's > done) isn't really important, is it? > > -chris >
