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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical The road not taken (was Re: Ungodly packet loss rates)
>You're transiting two NAPs (MAE-WEST and the DEC exchange (?)) which >both provide service that's essential on one hand (wide access to >the greater Internet) and lousy on the other hand (focussed access >to a particular site). This whole thread seems to have taken a wrong turn somewhere, or ignored the fact that this is really goofy routing. Best (TLG) and BBNplanet are both at mae-west, yet velvet.com packets traverse Alternet to get to cisco.com. Cisco also appears to have a direct connection to Alternet which is also at mae-west, yet the packets traverse BBNplanet. I would prefer to think there is an 'Oops' somewhere. I don't know why any provider would purposely do this to their customer's traffic. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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