[12865] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-East Down better than up?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec H. Peterson)
Sat Oct 11 11:38:45 1997
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 11:19:49 -0400
From: "Alec H. Peterson" <ahp@hilander.com>
To: Alex Bligh <amb@gxn.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199710111451.PAA03064@diamond.xara.net>; from Alex Bligh on Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 03:51:51PM +0100
On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 03:51:51PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
> I'm sitting here with most of my MAE-East peers down, expecting chaos
> and packet loss everywhere. However, generally speaking the world seems
> to be performing far better than with it up. I can reach Microsoft with
> no packet loss. When MAE-East was up, record was 75% packet loss ("that's
> normal" was the response). I'd figured all the other IXPs would be
> congestion hell. Not from here.
>
> Is it just me, or is there a moral here ...
Well, it _is_ Saturday morning, which is typically a very light time
of day traffic-wise.
Alec
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