[917] in North American Network Operators' Group
clarification: Re: links on the blink (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Villamizar)
Tue Nov 7 01:06:48 1995
To: nanog@merit.edu
cc: curtis@ans.net
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Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 00:58:08 -0500
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
btw, That's 10^-5 packet loss (0.001%). I just got email asking what
the units were. I think the acceptance test uses 1000 byte packets.
Curtis
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To: "Steven J. Richardson" <sjr@merit.edu>
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Reply-To: curtis@ans.net
Subject: Re: links on the blink (fwd)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Nov 1995 15:18:15 EST."
<199511062018.PAA08597@home.merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 23:14:45 -0500
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
In message <199511062018.PAA08597@home.merit.edu>, "Steven J. Richardson" write
s:
>
> Uh... Michael, when we were running the NSFNET, as Hans-Werner and
> many readers of this list are well aware, we did _not_ accept 10% packet
> loss on any link or across the network. These problems stayed with
> the NSFNET NOC until resolution by the provider, MCI. We only considered
> -0%- loss to be acceptable.
Steve,
Enough of your wild stories of -0%- loss. :-) The correct figure was
10^-5 for acceptance with 10^-4 being the maximum threshold we would
accept on a running circuit before contacting MCI to take the circuit
in a maintenance window for diagnostics. That doesn't mean we
wouldn't bug MCI to get the circuits back perfectly clean. ;-)
We still have the same criteria. I think MCInet is also as vigilant.
Curtis
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