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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: solar flares effecting anyone else?
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:07:01AM -0400, John Todd wrote: > At 4:45 PM -0400 4/11/01, Jim Mercer wrote: > >i've got an E1 circuit that goes: > > > >Toronto -> Amsterdam (fiber) > >Amsterdam -> Islamabad (satelite) > >Islamabad -> Karachi (fiber) > > > >for the last couple days, my router has been seeing an abnormally high number > >of "carrier transitions". > > Were you asking about satellite or terrestrial issues? It's very > difficult to determine from your comments if you think that this is a > satellite or "other" issue (I'll assume you know it's not the fiber.) my apologies, i should havc pointed at the satelite link. however, i have heard of solar flares being respnsible for various communications and electrical interference. i used to manage a circuit to the canadian arctic, which was (as i was told) sensitive to "sun spots". there was also an incident where quebec hydro had some serious failure that was blamed on solar activity. > But none of this matters, since we all know that the Internet was > designed to be hit by nuuuucleahr bombs and keep on workin', right? > What's a few billion trillion electrons to the Internet? actually, the link is still "workin'", however, due to routing flaps every 5 minutes or so, the customer has a different opinion on "workin'". considering this started happening in the last couple days, without any configuration or hardware changes, i was looking for explanations. BTW: the circuit provider has found an abnormal number of CRC errors, and is going to run some end-to-end tests when we can coordinate a time. -- [ Jim Mercer [email protected] ] [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] [ aka [email protected] +1 416 410-5633 ]
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