[49518] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: European packet loss average increasing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com)
Wed Jul 3 06:27:50 2002
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 11:26:50 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>My non-scientific measurements (i.e. pings to well known european
>sites) show an increase in packet loss to about 6%, the 10 day
>average previously was less than 1%.
That is similar to what the Internet Traffic Report for Europe shows at
this URL
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/cgi-bin/tr_graphpage.pl?score/7/Europe
For those who don't know, Ebone had a policy of zero packet loss on the
network 99.5% of the time and we managed to exceed this on almost all of
our links. In other words, the graph of packet loss was a horizontal line
with the occasional small blip. The major change in the traffic report
graphs is that packet loss is six times greater after the Ebone shutdown.
There was also a dip in traffic levels that partially corrected itself.
Presumably the bottom of the dip represents convergence and the lack of a
full recovery is partly due to organizations that were not multihomed and
who had not yet found alternate providers.
--Michael Dillon
ex-Ebone
