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RE: Qwest (fwd)

  • From: Eric Germann
  • Date: Sat Apr 14 08:12:37 2001

No.  I was adding a datapoint to "... don't recall the last outage they've sustained on an edge router ..."

At 12:16 AM 4/14/01 -0400, Martin, Christian wrote:
>Most of my sesions have been live for over 150 days.  I suppose I am lucky.
>Are you suggesting bad linecard = sucky network?
>
>chris
>
>> >> purchase connectivity from them, even if their network didn't suck.
>> >
>> >What makes you think this?  Perhaps you can share your 
>> experiences that
>> >would substantiate this claim.  I have rarely seen cross 
>> country RTTs exceed
>> >70 msec (right now it's 58msec from nyc to sfo) and don't 
>> recall the last
>> >outage they've sustained on an edge router, let alone core 
>> disruption.  I
>> 
>> wdc-edge-03.inet.qwest.net
>> 
>> Last friday night for about 4 or 5 hours.  Flapping T-1's.  
>> Traced to bad line card.  I know.  I hung off of it.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> "It is so easy to miss pretty trivial solutions to problems deemed
>> complicated.  The goal of a scientist is to find an 
>> interesting problem,
>> and live off it for a while.  The goal of an engineer is to evade
>> interesting problems :)"  -- Vadim Antonov <[email protected]> on NANOG
>>