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To: - who wrote (295)	6/8/1999 5:57:00 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 18137

Hi Steve, One of my favorite newly discovered terms is "route flapping". This condition occurs when one router is overwhelmed to the extent that it destroys the message handling characteristics on adjacent routers in the network. When generalized it can impact the entire Internet, though we haven't seen this for a while as the 'bone is a bit ahead of the load at the moment. When route flapping occurs, multimegabits of data get dumped (our erstwhile trades, for instance) as the router(s) reset themselves. Now imagine Oct. 19, 1987 with the current level of e-trading. I think we could melt the entire Internet on a day like that. Have that phone handy, eh? Or maybe a back door T-1 might be a good thing. Ry