[2577] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some corrections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Huddle)
Tue Apr 16 19:04:26 1996
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 15:07:40 -0400
From: Scott Huddle <huddle@mci.net>
To: wsimpson@greendragon.com, nanog@merit.edu
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....
Bill,
Oarnet is an MCI customer as well. they have a T3 connection to our
network at Washington and another to the Chicago area. I think you might
be confusing traffic to them over their dedicated line at Washington
as going over MAE-East.
Hope this clears things up,
-scott (huddle@mci.net)
MCI Internet Engineering
