[2198] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: mae-west congestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Kaminski)
Thu Mar 21 20:35:02 1996
To: nanog@merit.edu, matthew@nic.scruz.net
Cc: noc@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 Mar 1996 13:48:40 PST."
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 17:26:08 -0800
From: Peter Kaminski <kaminski@nanospace.com>
Matthew Kaufman writes about the Ames FDDI ring saturation:
>What I don't understand is why that has _stayed_ saturated... it seems to me
>that some of the big players would have rerouted their traffic by now to avoid
>subjecting it to this, which would also have the side effect of causing the
>problem to, at least for the short term, go away.
...or why MFS hasn't installed a Gigaswitch there, or whatever. We're seeing
20% - 30% packet loss through AGIS to MCI and Sprintlink during the day, and
it's not fun.
>... and the major contributors to this
>traffic must be getting complaints from their own customers about how their
>packets are being routed via a lossy interchange point.
As a customer, I've complained to my contributor. But I get the
impression that everyone thinks it's everybody else's problem. Who's
really responsible? And why did it have to get this bad?
Peter Kaminski, NanoSpace
kaminski@nanospace.com
