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....

In any case, it still proves my point -- Merit and CICnet (and MCI) somehow view each other as competitors and don't cooperate to carry traffic by the "best" route, thereby clogging other areas of the Internet (MAE-East) at others' unknowing expense.

Bill, you are way off base.