btw, That's 10^-5 packet loss (0.001%). I just got email asking what the units were. I think the acceptance test uses 1000 byte packets. Curtis ------- Forwarded Message Received: from interlock.ans.net (interlock.ans.net [147.225.5.2]) by brookfield.ans.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA18009 for <curtis@brookfield.ans.net>; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 00:09:43 -0500 Received: from merit.edu by interlock.ans.net with SMTP id AA29086 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 3.0 for <regional-techsers@ans.net>); Tue, 7 Nov 1995 00:09:41 -0500 Received: from brookfield.ans.net (brookfield-ef0.brookfield.ans.net [204.148.1.20]) by merit.edu (8.6.12/merit-2.0) with ESMTP id XAA11602; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 23:15:13 -0500 Received: from brookfield.ans.net (localhost.brookfield.ans.net [127.0.0.1]) by brookfield.ans.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id XAA17732; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 23:14:47 -0500 Message-Id: <199511070414.XAA17732@brookfield.ans.net> To: "Steven J. Richardson" <sjr@merit.edu> Cc: hwb@upeksa.sdsc.edu, michael@memra.com, D.Mills@cs.ucl.ac.uk, mn@tremere.ios.com, nanog@merit.edu, nathan@netrail.net Reply-To: curtis@ans.net Subject: Re: links on the blink (fwd) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Nov 1995 15:18:15 EST." <199511062018.PAA08597@home.merit.edu> Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 23:14:45 -0500 From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net> In message <199511062018.PAA08597@home.merit.edu>, "Steven J. Richardson" write s:
Uh... Michael, when we were running the NSFNET, as Hans-Werner and many readers of this list are well aware, we did _not_ accept 10% packet loss on any link or across the network. These problems stayed with the NSFNET NOC until resolution by the provider, MCI. We only considered -0%- loss to be acceptable.
Steve, Enough of your wild stories of -0%- loss. :-) The correct figure was 10^-5 for acceptance with 10^-4 being the maximum threshold we would accept on a running circuit before contacting MCI to take the circuit in a maintenance window for diagnostics. That doesn't mean we wouldn't bug MCI to get the circuits back perfectly clean. ;-) We still have the same criteria. I think MCInet is also as vigilant. Curtis ------- End of Forwarded Message