[764] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Initial Route Server Stats for MAE-East
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elise Gerich)
Fri Oct 20 16:25:34 1995
From: Elise Gerich <epg@merit.edu>
To: list-admin@merit.edu (William B. Norton)
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 16:18:55 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: curtis@ans.net, nanog@home.merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951020142813.25539B-100000@home.merit.edu> from "William B. Norton" at Oct 20, 95 02:33:51 pm
Curtis,
Yes, we would like to have the dates of the changes at MAE-East
to help us better annotate the graphs. Thanks for your response.
--Elise
>William B. Norton writes:
>
>
> Thanks for the feedback Curtis. You are correct that one might get the
> wrong impression. ( Our intent here was really to show the layout of the
> web page and get some feedback, and this ANS router just happened to be
> first.) Dun just uploaded all the rest of the MAE-East Peer delay/packet
> loss graphs. Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> Web Pointer to MAE-East graphs: http://www.ra.net/~ra/statistics
>
> Bill & Dun
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> William B. Norton Merit Network Inc.
> e-mail: wbn@merit.edu phone: (313) 936-2656
> WWW: http://home.merit.edu/~wbn
>
> On Tue, 17 Oct 1995, Curtis Villamizar wrote:
>
> >
> > Bill,
> >
> > You have a lot of statistics that are simply listed as "ANS" with some
> > incredibly high loss and delay numbers. You don't mention that these
> > are all for the ANS interface 192.41.177.253 en-0.ENSS136.t3.ANS.NET
> > which was the ethernet on ENSS136 and fail to mention that for most or
> > all of this time period there was also a FDDI on ENSS136 and we later
> > cut over to the FDDI on ENSS147. If you fail to mention these little
> > facts, people might think that ANS has a really shoddy conmnection to
> > Mae-East, not knowing that the problem was due to media saturation at
> > the Mae East ethernet and technical problems with the ethernet
> > bridging technology used by MFS, and that ANS also had the FDDI and
> > preferred the FDDI except for those only reachable by ethernet.
> >
> > Would you please clear that up on your web pages and maybe add a
> > readme on the ftp server. If you like, I can get the E136 FDDI
> > installation dates and the cutover date for E147, which now only has a
> > FDDI and doesn't have an ethernet at all. I think we have now shut
> > down the College Park ethernet as well.
> >
> > Curtis
> >
>
