[24270] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: C&W Outage, more info, sort of
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Thu Jun 10 17:55:01 1999
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:54:01 -0500
From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> Sounds like the cisco bug which has affected several different providers
>> over the last month or so. A route (almost always a high-interest
>> destination) doesn't get added to the forwarding table correctly.
>
>Not true. The fact that none of my colleagues, the isp team, and I
>was contacted/involved seems to suggest these routers do not run
>Cisco IOS.
Probally true. I received a report from a third-party the routers in
this particular outage were not Cisco's. The routers were another vendor
brand. I did leave a voice mail message, and e-mail to Data Comm explaining
I had been informed I misidentified the router vendor. But I haven't
been able to confirm what really happened either through C&W customer
service (what outage?) or the other router vendor (no comment).
However, before cisco account teams start popping champaign corks,
the problem I did note with Cisco IOS and CEF does exist, and has
affected a number of major backbones off and on for several weeks.
A rather rip-roaring discussion is continuing on the cisco-nsp mailing
list as we speak about CEF issues.
--
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Affiliation given for identification not representation
