dhc wg last call on "DHCPRelayAgentAssignmentNotificationOption"

> Am I to take this as an assertion, by a Cisco employee,
that 95%
> of networks use single point of failure routers?  Only
5% of networks
> use redundant routers (and therefore redundant relay
agents)?

Any comments I make are my own opinions. In the IETF, we're
all
individuals and represent ourselves.

I fail to understand why you're so hung up on this. Take
DOCSIS (cable)
- there is only a single relay (the CMTS) for each cable
segment.

I did NOT cite any study or survey. This is just my PERSONAL
opinion. As
you apparently disagree with it, that is your prerogative.

- Bernie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David W. Hankins [mailtoavid_Han
kinsisc.org] 
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 12:28 PM
> To: dhcwgietf.org
> Subject: Re: [dhcwg] dhc wg last call on 
>
"DHCPRelayAgentAssignmentNotificationOption"
> 
> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:09:04PM -0400, Bernie Volz
(volz) wrote:
> > Most relay agents are in routers. That's what
this option 
> essentially
> > assumes.
> 
> Am I to take this as an assertion, by a Cisco employee,
that 95%
> of networks use single point of failure routers?  Only
5% of networks
> use redundant routers (and therefore redundant relay
agents)?
> 
> I still can't follow this trail of bread crumbs
you're leaving me.
> 
> > If you want a reliable multiple-relay agent
technique, 
> please feel free
> > to design it. That isn't what we attempted to do
here. We 
> just felt it
> > useful to avoid the need for packet snooping.
> 
> Fine, fine.
> 
> -- 
> David W. Hankins		"If you don't do it right the 
> first time,
> Software Engineer			you'll just have to do 
> it again."
> Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.		-- Jack T. Hankins
> 

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On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:48:08PM -0400, Bernie Volz (volz)
wrote:
> > Am I to take this as an assertion, by a Cisco
employee, that 95%
> > of networks use single point of failure routers? 
Only 5% of networks
> > use redundant routers (and therefore redundant
relay agents)?
> 
> Any comments I make are my own opinions. In the IETF,
we're all
> individuals and represent ourselves.

I didn't mean to imply your opinion was someone's other
than your
own.  An accident of realizing the environment in which you
were
forming this opinion (and that being part of my inablity to
accept
what I was reading).


Your opinion is now clear to me with no chance of
misinterpretation.

I'm sorry if my mechanism to extract this from you in words
I can
understand was frustrating for you, so thank you for taking
the time.

-- 
David W. Hankins		"If you don't do it right the first
time,
Software Engineer			you'll just have to do it again."
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.		-- Jack T. Hankins
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