[18871] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-East - Operational question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian Kim)
Thu Aug 20 13:54:22 1998
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:38:02 -0400
From: Dorian Kim <dorian@blackrose.org>
To: Jeff Barrows <jsb@UU.NET>, Alex Bligh <amb@gxn.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: Jeff Barrows <jsb@UU.NET>, Alex Bligh <amb@gxn.net>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980819173557.0167bfc0@neserve0.uu.net>; from Jeff Barrows on Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 05:35:57PM -0400
On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 05:35:57PM -0400, Jeff Barrows wrote:
> - The peering session between Network A and Network B
> is traversing the network of FDDI switches at the IX,
> as the networks are not peering across a FDDI switch
> that they have in common, and the links are congested.
>
> Other things one can do :
>
> - Peering session can be moved to a FDDI switch that
> the two networks have in common.
The others, as you've observed are reasonably fixable problems, given
inclination, but this last problem is non-trivial to fix, because of
the physically distributed nature of some interconnects.
I'm not yet certain as to whether ATM replacement of FDDI is the right
solution to this problem.
-dorian