[6114] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: high packet loss within Sprint infrastructure?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Nov 13 18:28:21 1996
From: owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US (Owen DeLong)
To: david.wasley@ucop.edu (David L. Wasley)
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:02:27 -0800 (PST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <v03007812aeaffe4d3ea5@[128.48.108.187]> from "David L. Wasley" at Nov 13, 96 02:44:55 pm
>
> I hope this is an appropriate question for this list...
>
> We have been experiencing severe packet loss, apparently within the Sprint
> infrastructure, for several weeks. Recently we've seen as high as 20%
> loss. Our users are screaming. They can't keep sessions open to resource
> providers, etc., to whom they are paying large annual fees. Not at all
> good.
>
> We have been receiving conflicting stories fron Sprint about where the
> problem(s) is(are), who is responsible, what is being done (if anything),
> etc.
>
> The loss appears to us to be worst at MAE-WEST but it seems to be happening
> more broadly as well.
>
> Can anyone else out there help shed light on this? Is anyone else aware of
> similar behavior?
>
> Thanks,
> David Wasley
> University of California
>
>
>
Hi David, long time no talk. Les sez HI too.
Only info I have on this is a trouble ticket sent out by BBN that said:
SPRINT is loosing packets between SL-MAE-W and SL-STK-5, and so they
are adding an additional T3 to MAE E.
That's right... It was exactly that and made exactly that much SPRINT SENSE.
Owen
