North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: global BGP instability
> Several providers announced scheduled maintenance last week. > UUNET/Worldcom listed 60+ different cities in its maintenance > announcement for Tuesday 2/19, and more on Thursday. Abovenet > said they would be upgrading some of their routers on Monday 2/18 > and Tuesday 2/19. Sprint had a few maintenance items scheduled > for Tuesday. It wouldn't surprise me if other providers had > also scheduled maintenance for Tuesday morning. > > There doesn't seem to much variation in the total BGP announcements, > average latency or packet losses, so I don't think it was someone > tickling lots of BGP routers. Thanks to all who responded. It looks very much as if this surge corresponds precisely with one of the above-mentioned maintenance windows (further this deponent sayeth not). If you own enough routers, and tickle enough of them at once, you can cause quite a stir. --jim
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