Packet loss on Stanford-Pac Bell DSL links - Feb 2001Les Cottrell. Page created: February 26, 2001.Central Computer Access | Computer Networking | Network Group | ICFA-NTF Monitoring |
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I cannot do anything from home tonight. The worst it has ever been. I can only type a few characters at a time. Then must wait up to a minute or so for it to catch up.At the same period Gary Buhrmaster and Robert Cowles both using the Pac bell DSL (not through Stanford) reported no problems getting to SLAC. A traceroute from Bob Cowles' home machine to SLAC shows the route through Pac Bell.
Randy Melen, also connected via Stanford U/Pac Bell, reported ping losses at 11:00pm 2/25/01, both from SLAC and Stanford U to his home machine. Randy also noted on 2/26/01 at 8:50am:
The problem is still there. It is almost a pattern of 5 successful packets, 5 dropped packets, 5 successful packets, 5 dropped packets, ...
Gary Buhrmaster around 9:30pm 2/25/01, noted that the problems appear to be in the Stanford network and noted that:
Accessing some Stanford web sites is very very slow (this doesn't use SLAC resources in any way). If you go to http://monitoring.stanford.edu you will see some systems "partially operational" and some "not operational". I presume this is not supposed to be that way.
A traceroute from Les Cottrell's home machine (atlas w.x.y.z ) shows a very short route, but with some very long delays.
Pass this along to whomever you think - we somehow wound up with two routers advertising the same ospf id, causing no end of consternation. The observation of five good five bad was correct - we were recalculating every ten seconds.