At 6:05 PM 3/18/96, William Allen Simpson wrote:

What is going on out at MAE-East? From Michigan, I'm seeing a tremendous loss there, all day (since 10 am) between mae-east-plusplus.Washington.mci.net. and mae-east.psi.net. It is completely impossible to POP3 my email. SUNOS just times out the TCP connection after about 10KB in 1/2 hour.

I don't want to sound like the fly that was doing the elephant and asked, "Does this hurt?" But... NSF (the organization, the building, and not the networking division) in its infinite wisdom decided to change ISPs from SURANET (bbn Planet) to PSInet. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate, to which our networking division belongs, has its own "high-speed LAN" (HSL). NSF, the building, has still not changed over its connection to PSInet, but our HSL has. The building is apparently not going to switch over until it gets its firewall on-line. So, to get to color printers and other organizational resources, our packets go through PSInet via MAE-E and back via SURA/bbn (MCI circuits) to the main LANs. Yesterday was a very busy day, shipping scads of graphics files to the color printers getting ready for big presentation schedule. Did it hurt? --SG ____________________________________________ Steve Goldstein, National Science Foundation +1(703)306-1949 Ext. 1119 "Let's not procrastinate until next week!"