[5576] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The road not taken (was Re: Ungodly packet loss rates)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig A. Huegen)
Tue Oct 22 00:42:13 1996
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 21:39:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Craig A. Huegen" <c-huegen@quad.quadrunner.com>
To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <961021223744.1a44b@SDG.DRA.COM>
On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Sean Donelan wrote:
==>Best (TLG) and BBNplanet are both at mae-west, yet velvet.com packets
==>traverse Alternet to get to cisco.com. Cisco also appears to have a
==>direct connection to Alternet which is also at mae-west, yet the packets
==>traverse BBNplanet.
This morning, a message went out to the Cisco population that there was a
problem with the circuit to Alternet. This was corrected later this
morning. Below is the correct path taken to cisco when everything is
loaded correctly.
quad:~>traceroute <machine>
traceroute to <machine>, 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 best-gw-e0.quadrunner.net (205.166.195.1) 6 ms 5 ms 5 ms
2 b00m.best.net (205.149.160.126) 34 ms 34 ms 34 ms
3 core-ether12-1.mv.best.net (205.149.160.65) 41 ms 38 ms 45 ms
4 905.Hssi3-0.GW1.SCL1.ALTER.NET (137.39.133.89) 40 ms 44 ms 38 ms
5 Fddi0-0.CR1.SCL1.Alter.Net (137.39.19.5) 60 ms 39 ms 39 ms
6 Hssi3-0.San-Jose3.CA.Alter.Net (137.39.100.1) 48 ms 43 ms 61 ms
7 Fddi0-0.San-Jose5.CA.Alter.Net (137.39.27.6) 42 ms 41 ms 41 ms
8 cisco-gw.ALTER.NET (137.39.170.110) 40 ms 46 ms 41 ms
9 sj-wall-2.cisco.com (192.31.7.34) 44 ms 61 ms 46 ms
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/cah