On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:07:01AM -0400, John Todd wrote:
At 4:45 PM -0400 4/11/01, Jim Mercer wrote:
i've got an E1 circuit that goes:
Toronto -> Amsterdam (fiber) Amsterdam -> Islamabad (satelite) Islamabad -> Karachi (fiber)
for the last couple days, my router has been seeing an abnormally high number of "carrier transitions".
Were you asking about satellite or terrestrial issues? It's very difficult to determine from your comments if you think that this is a satellite or "other" issue (I'll assume you know it's not the fiber.)
my apologies, i should havc pointed at the satelite link. however, i have heard of solar flares being respnsible for various communications and electrical interference. i used to manage a circuit to the canadian arctic, which was (as i was told) sensitive to "sun spots". there was also an incident where quebec hydro had some serious failure that was blamed on solar activity.
But none of this matters, since we all know that the Internet was designed to be hit by nuuuucleahr bombs and keep on workin', right? What's a few billion trillion electrons to the Internet?
actually, the link is still "workin'", however, due to routing flaps every 5 minutes or so, the customer has a different opinion on "workin'". considering this started happening in the last couple days, without any configuration or hardware changes, i was looking for explanations. BTW: the circuit provider has found an abnormal number of CRC errors, and is going to run some end-to-end tests when we can coordinate a time. -- [ Jim Mercer jim@pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.ca ] [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] [ aka jim@reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633 ]