[110210] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Loch)
Sun Dec 28 14:23:53 2008
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:21:57 -0500
From: Kevin Loch <kloch@kl.net>
CC: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4957CF51.30003@zero11.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
marco wrote:
>>From what I heard, it was some some malfunction with a router in
> Washington D.C. which terminated a 100GB bundle from Paris. It was
> carring about 50GB at the time of the failure.
>
> Not sure why routes within the US would be effected.
We connect to level3 in Ashburn/DC and saw traffic drop 50% in both
directions on that port. Testing showed 100% loss on 50% of the
flows. We shut that port down and now it won't come back up. I have
link but no arp for their IP. This is a new link that was turned
up in the past few weeks.
- Kevin
