Hey all, If I could add a NAP to this list, the Sprint NAP is having horrific packet loss and I understand that legal action was necessary to get the invovled parties to resolve the situation. Here's the information I received from a source at MCI. I suggest you label this information as rumor and change it as you see fit. :) There is a FDDI Ring at the NAP which was overcrowded. It apparently took some legal action to get Sprint (or whoever is responsible for the Sprint NAP :) ) to make the necessary upgrades. What I've heard is that 4 GigaSwitches are being installed from MFS and that this installation/upgrade ETR is 1-2 months. What I can tell you for sure is that we are seeing between 10-25% packet loss on a daily basis across that NAP. We have seen these numbers on both our MCI and UUNet connection. (for the record, the UUNet packet loss is generally lower, of course I get randomnly disconnected from various sites when using UUNet... its all compromise these days...) So, where is Bob Metcalfe when you need him??? :) Sorry for the me too post... I feel like an AOLer... Sean Rolinson snowdog@bigfoot.com snowdog@charm.net
Hi there, Is it possible, even at this late date, to allow someone from MFS to comment at NANOG on what is being done to relieve inter switch congestion at MAE East and West and what kind of time frames we can expect a resolution in?
This is seriously affecting the performance of the Internet as a whole, and seems to me to be a very valid operational topic for the conference.
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