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Sprint / C&W peering issues?

  • From: jlewis
  • Date: Fri Jan 19 19:03:42 2001

The past few days, I've been noticing packet loss, apparently at the
points where Sprint and C&W exchange traffic.  Today, I emailed a note
about this including the output from a few mtr's in each direction to
[email protected], and though I got no reply, an hour or so later, I noticed
packets were taking a slightly different route (apparently going through a
different peering connection in a different city if you believe the
hostnames) and the packet loss was gone and round trip times much better.

I left the office for a bit, and now that I'm back, I see the packets are
back to using the old peering connection that I can only assume must be
overloaded.  Anyone know what the deal is?

                           Matt's traceroute  [v0.42]
orldfl-ns-1.atlantic.net                               Fri Jan 19 18:58:51 2001
Keys:  D - Display mode    R - Restart statistics    Q - Quit
                                           Packets               Pings
Hostname                                %Loss  Rcv  Snt  Last Best  Avg  Worst
 1. orldflwcom-br-1-fe0-0.atlantic.net     0%   30   30     0    0    0      1
 2. sl-gw8-orl-3-0-TS11.sprintlink.net     0%   30   30     1    0    1      1
 3. sl-bb11-orl-5-2.sprintlink.net         0%   30   30     1    1    1      2
 4. sl-bb21-atl-9-1.sprintlink.net         0%   30   30    11   11   11     12
 5. sl-bb2-atl-0-0-0.sprintlink.net        0%   30   30    12   11   30    190
 6. core3-serial2-0-0.Atlanta.cw.net      20%   24   30    37   33   37     41
 7. corerouter1.Atlanta.cw.net            27%   22   30    34   33   36     50
 8. acr1-loopback.Atlantaald.cw.net       20%   24   30    36   32   37     39
 9. bar7-loopback.Atlantaald.cw.net       27%   22   30    48   33   37     48
10. ???

Hop 10 is a router with some packet filtering...no response is expected there.

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