On Jan 28, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: > I have seen nation state disconnects where light is lost.
I believe that was the case for Burma, for example. Marshall > > > 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 >> > >