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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: AGIS Route Flaps Interrupting its Peering?
> -- a horrible idea (ethernet<->MFS ATM<->ethernet) > which didn't work under load; perhaps a veteran > user of these neato little things could explain > the failure mode to anyone interested. I remember > one service provider who had a national "10Mbps" > ethernet backbone who had various horrible problems > including the breakdown of the LIS (such that some > routers couldn't talk to others), connections > going simplex, frame loss and other wonderful things This actually works reasonably well as long as you don't try to cram 20Mbps of data through it in aggregate. The problem that one particular provider had was trying to do this full-mesh AND ignoring the fact that Ethernet isn't really 10Mbps; its more like 5-6Mbps when you take the duplexing issues into account. Now add the collision domain problems to this (you really don't have a 3000-mile collision domain; its "faked" in the translation) and limited buffering and you can see where some problems show up really quickly, especially when you sell resale T1s to people and don't upgrade the backbone to meet the increasing sales of circuits...... If you only mesh the places you need to talk to from one point to another and use a better exit technology at exchange points (allowing an aggregate data rate > 10mbps) it works quite well. Try to go "cheap" and use the AUI interface everywhere and you get a different result. > -- another horrible idea (FR<->MFS ATM<->FR) > this was pretty neat; some of the problems above > plus a brand new problem: the ADSU would strip the > FR frame checksum (don't use ADSUs; that will help a lot :-) > -- mixed-media bridging (NetEdges, FDDI/Ethernet bridges) Netedge <> Ethernet works quite well (far better than RETIX<>Ethernet.) Netedge<>FDDI has been reported to have the problems you listed, and more. > Finally, why is it that most vendors never test their products in > a serious battlefield environment like an ISP of size medium to huge? > These places tend to be excellent worst-case testing grounds. That's a good question... > Sean. -- -- Karl Denninger ([email protected])| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity Modem: [+1 312 803-3590] | T1 from $600 monthly; speeds to DS-3 available Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1] | 23 Chicagoland Prefixes, 13 ISDN, much more Fax: [+1 312 248-9865] | Email to "[email protected]" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ ISDN - Get it here TODAY! | Home of Chicago's only FULL Clarinet feed! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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