Hi Sillen, I once took the time to examine DTM but didn't get too far, I'm afraid. I didn't find it all that intutive at first, and my impression was that it was yet another attempt to leverage the legacy rules and constructs of yesteryear, when those attributes were about to be run over by a steam roller. It was a little hard for me to see its merit, in the end. But I didn't focus on it for a very long time.
I'll look at it again, tomorrow maybe, when I can focus better. Thanks for the homework assignment, by the way. I have so few other things I must do these days. smiles
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In the meantime, take a look at the laments of a poor soul who had to work today at some ISP. Read what he has to say about his observations of the day (from the NANAOG List Thread):
Subject: memorial network reconfiguration day?
Hey, did everybody decide: "it's a holiday, and the end of the month, nobody will notice when all the routes flap as we change router configurations"? When the backhoes had a day off?
I haven't seen this much since the bad ol' days of '91 or so. Aside
from the perpetual congestion problems in C&W North Royalton, I saw
GoodNet Chicago flipflop between MAE East and West, and ACSI cum eSpire problems on their cross-country links into Arkansas / Mississippi / Tennessee / Texas, and sometimes even alternate tracing through AGIS. Was upwards of 70% packet loss for awhile there....
Or is this always happening, and I just got to watch because I had some time on my hands and it affected me for several hours?
There's a strange kind of music to it all, wouldn't you say? [g]
Every now and then I like to inject these tid bits into the thread in order to keep it real.
Regards, Frank Coluccio
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