[171827] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Possible Comcast Load Balancing issues in Chicago?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Smith, Courtney)
Thu May 15 11:31:13 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Smith, Courtney" <Courtney_Smith@Cable.Comcast.com>
To: Metro-Inet Netops <mi.netops@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 15:31:44 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAEQc8Htgox52KpEv15gcFPfzXXrPzSKcn3Y=RLa9vNogCxVEjA@mail.gmail.com>
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