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Re: links on the blink (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Partan)
Sat Nov 4 18:26:30 1995

From: asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan)
To: sob@newdev.harvard.edu (Scott Bradner)
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 18:23:01 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199511042129.QAA26534@newdev.harvard.edu> from "Scott Bradner" at Nov 4, 95 04:29:45 pm

> from my house to Harvard via PSI, MAE-west, MCI, BBN Planet and back via
> BBN Planet, MCI, MAE-east and PSI.
> 
>     505 packets transmitted, 497 packets received, 1% packet loss
>     round-trip min/avg/max = 116.702/192.69/3000 ms 

I suspect that you are going out via the CIX-SMDS cloud, not MAE-East -
PSI is not on MAE-West.

I also suspect that if/when you have packet loss it is due to the
shared FDDI at MAE-East.  PSI (along with several other service
providers) is on the shared FDDI at MAE-East.  The MAE-East shared FDDI
is quite overloaded (it hits 90 Meg during the day).  [The MAE-East
Gigaswitch is humming along quite nicely at a total of just over 190
Meg during the day.]

The shared FDDI participants at MAE-East are:
Shared FDDI     192.41.177.6    wtn9-mae_east-ce.sura.net
Shared FDDI     192.41.177.7    (unknown) (down)
Shared FDDI     192.41.177.75   mae-east.iconnet.net
Shared FDDI     192.41.177.95   mae-east.delphi.com
Shared FDDI     192.41.177.110  mae-east.ibm.com
Shared FDDI     192.41.177.140  mae-east.ans.net
Shared FDDI     192.41.177.163  (unknown)
Shared FDDI     192.41.177.243  gsl-mae-e-fddi1/0.gsl.net
Shared FDDI     192.41.177.245  mae-east.psi.net

Check out the MFS MAE-East/West web pages at http://www.mfsdatanet/MAE/
for this and other data.  There are daily graphs of traffic and a list
of the connections to each MAE (showing how each provider is
connected).

	--asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan)

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