[3710] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-West FDDI ring split.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Fri Aug 16 22:17:40 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: rmg@ranma.com (Rob Gutierrez)
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 22:13:16 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@home.merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199608162313.QAA20657@ranma.com> from "Rob Gutierrez" at Aug 16, 96 04:13:57 pm
Take a look at the graphs. 80mbits sustained is congestion, yes.
And if you still have any doubts, his message (which you quoted
below) says that congestion is the reason...
Avi
>
> Uhhh, do all of you know that MFS is splitting the shared FDDI ring tonite
> (Fri nite / Sat early AM) due to congestion?
>
> rob.
>
> ----------
> From: owner-mae-west[SMTP:owner-mae-west@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov]
> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 1996 5:12 PM
> To: mae-west
> Subject: MAE WEST outage notification
>
> There will be a short outage at MAE WEST Saturday morning,
> approximately between 12:00am and 12:15am. The outage should last no
> longer than five minutes.
>
> During this time, we will be splitting the shared FDDI ring at MFS into
> two segments, each on a separate Gigaswitch port. This should alleviate
> congestion on the shared FDDI which has been causing packet loss recently.
>
> Peering to and from some of the stations on the shared FDDI and switched
> Ethernet ports will be affected while the cables are being moved.
>
> Steve
>
