> I've received a number of replies, some down, some up. It does > appear that only some connections are down, for yet unknown reasons. It has always been WorldCom's marketing position that their switches are at the topological "center" of MAE-East. However they have never in fact had a monopoly on switch-ports at MAE-East, and only their after-the-fact marketing FUD has managed to convince some people that their switch ports are somehow more legitimate than everyone else's. A minority of MAE-East participants' _routers_ were actually connected to Worldcom switch ports, but we now have the opportunity to find out how many participants' _switches_ were connected to Worldcom switches.

From any point of view, those participants who appear down are those who are on the other side of a (now defunct) Worldcom switch, while those who appear up are on the same side of a Worldcom switch.

The somewhat harder trick is in mapping which of the switches need to be interconnected to which of the others to patch around the WorldCom damage without creating a loop. -Bill

On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Adam Rothschild wrote:

<http://www.mae.net/FDDI/east.map.htm>

and note the absence of giga3 and 7.

[snip]

That said, I do find this mildly interesting.

The (mildly) amusing part is that I can not reach www.mae.net - maybe they forgot to move it off giga3/7... :) -- Dominic J. Eidson "Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!" - Gimli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.the-infinite.org/ http://www.the-infinite.org/~dominic/