[110211] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven King)
Sun Dec 28 14:32:52 2008
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:32:26 -0500
From: Steven King <sking@kingrst.com>
To: Kevin Loch <kloch@kl.net>
In-Reply-To: <4957D1D5.6060702@kl.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
We saw our bandwidth drop on our Level3 OC-48 to about half of what we
were doing. We had to stop announcing our subnets to Level3 to get
traffic to fail over properly throughout the world. We have a ticket
open with Level3's NOC but have not received word on what happened or
when to expect a resolution.
Kevin Loch wrote:
> 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
>
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Steve King
Network Engineer - Liquid Web, Inc.
Cisco Certified Network Associate
CompTIA Linux+ Certified Professional
CompTIA A+ Certified Professional
