At 9:59 AM 4/16/96, William Allen Simpson wrote:

Both Merit and CICnet are connected to MCI. Correct? My new understanding is that the problem seems to be that MCI is stuck in the middle there, and for some reason shunts some (but not all) OSU and OARnet traffic off through MAE-East, rather than passing it more directly to OARnet (through CICnet or otherwise). And this is because of some _source_ based algorithm, since this only happens to Merit sourced traffic, but not other CICnet traffic, as you are using MCI to hold together pieces of CICnet? Sounds bizarre to me....

Bill, Oarnet is an MCI customer as well. they have a T3 connection to our network at Washington and another to the Chicago area. I think you might be confusing traffic to them over their dedicated line at Washington as going over MAE-East. Hope this clears things up, -scott (huddle@mci.net) MCI Internet Engineering