[36640] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: solar flares effecting anyone else?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Thu Apr 12 00:26:02 2001
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 00:21:32 -0400
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: John Todd <jtodd@loligo.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20010412002132.B26965@reptiles.org>
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In-Reply-To: <p05010403b6fa7e00f6ab@[172.16.2.77]>; from jtodd@loligo.com on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:07:01AM -0400
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:07:01AM -0400, John Todd wrote:
> At 4:45 PM -0400 4/11/01, Jim Mercer wrote:
> >i've got an E1 circuit that goes:
> >
> >Toronto -> Amsterdam (fiber)
> >Amsterdam -> Islamabad (satelite)
> >Islamabad -> Karachi (fiber)
> >
> >for the last couple days, my router has been seeing an abnormally high number
> >of "carrier transitions".
>
> Were you asking about satellite or terrestrial issues? It's very
> difficult to determine from your comments if you think that this is a
> satellite or "other" issue (I'll assume you know it's not the fiber.)
my apologies, i should havc pointed at the satelite link.
however, i have heard of solar flares being respnsible for various
communications and electrical interference.
i used to manage a circuit to the canadian arctic, which was (as i was told)
sensitive to "sun spots".
there was also an incident where quebec hydro had some serious failure that
was blamed on solar activity.
> But none of this matters, since we all know that the Internet was
> designed to be hit by nuuuucleahr bombs and keep on workin', right?
> What's a few billion trillion electrons to the Internet?
actually, the link is still "workin'", however, due to routing flaps every
5 minutes or so, the customer has a different opinion on "workin'".
considering this started happening in the last couple days, without any
configuration or hardware changes, i was looking for explanations.
BTW: the circuit provider has found an abnormal number of CRC errors, and
is going to run some end-to-end tests when we can coordinate a time.
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