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Re: ATM Question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Walter Prue)
Fri Oct 6 13:52:10 2000

From: Walter Prue <prue@ISI.EDU>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 17:50:17 GMT
Message-Id: <200010061750.RAA25116@i-14.isi.edu>
To: chapinhand@yahoo.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Richard,

Your problem sounds very much like one I have been dealing with.  You should 
try turning off caching on the ATM interface.  My guess is that your problem 
will go away.  Cisco recommended that I upgrade to a newer release so that
I could again turn on distributed route caching.

Walt

On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:50:10AM -0700, Richard Inhand wrote:
> I'm currently looking into a weird problem at an ATM
> peering point on the West Coast, when I ping from my
> peer router to any of my peers I get some but not
> total packet loss, when I ping from one router back or
> use the loopback interface as source things are fine.
> Whereas, with all my other ATM peering point routers,
> for example at MAE-EAST I can ping my peers cleanly
> from the same router. This isn't (to my knowledge)
> affecting traffic just wondering why this strange
> phenomenon should occur only in the one place.




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