[2571] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some corrections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ross Veach)
Tue Apr 16 14:28:47 1996
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:22:26 -0500
To: "William Allen Simpson" <wsimpson@greendragon.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: rrv@uiuc.edu (Ross Veach)
At 9:59 AM 4/16/96, William Allen Simpson wrote:
>Both Merit and CICnet are connected to MCI. Correct? My new
>understanding is that the problem seems to be that MCI is stuck in the
>middle there, and for some reason shunts some (but not all) OSU and
>OARnet traffic off through MAE-East, rather than passing it more
>directly to OARnet (through CICnet or otherwise). And this is because
>of some _source_ based algorithm, since this only happens to Merit
>sourced traffic, but not other CICnet traffic, as you are using MCI to
>hold together pieces of CICnet? Sounds bizarre to me....
>
>In any case, it still proves my point -- Merit and CICnet (and MCI)
>somehow view each other as competitors and don't cooperate to carry
>traffic by the "best" route, thereby clogging other areas of the
>Internet (MAE-East) at others' unknowing expense.
Bill, you are way off base.
