[Toolserver-l] [Toolserver-announce] yarrow (s1/s3) unplanned downtime

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Simon Walker
<stwalkerster at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I was actually talking about connecting the servers to the net down
> different routes, ie multiple linecards, so if one went down, the other
> would be there to take the load. Replicating the entire toolserver would be
> way too much bother and expense, I agree, but surely another connection
> can't hurt too much?
>
> (apologies if I've got completely the wrong end of the stick here)

Doubling the cost of switch ports (this isn't a $50 netgear we're
talking about here…) to guard against some hours outage less-essential
service against a failure mode that has only happened once in many
years?

Doesn't sound like much of a win.