Another MFS source has told us that someone was looping the MAE which is why everything kept going down. The offending customer has been taken off the MAE physically. I am sure some industrious ping testing could quickly determine who has been physically removed. Deepak Jain AiNET On Fri, 14 May 1999, Sean Donelan wrote:

davediaz@netrail.NET (David Diaz) writes:

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Is anyone else still seeing problems @ MAE-E? We are still seeing issues that appear to be similar to yesterday's problems...

Something is going on, official MFS sources have become ominously quiet though. One unofficial on-site reporter indicated one of the gigaswitches had gone belly up. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation