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From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>
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Subject: Re: frefall connectivity from europe
In-Reply-To: <199611050542.VAA28065@root.com> from David Greenman at "Nov 4, 96 09:42:43 pm"
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Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 19:58:32 +0100 (MET)
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>    In this case the problem is actually mostly due to problems with the
> Stratacom ATM switch at the PB-NAP "losing sync" with CRL's ATM interface.
> This coupled with another problem that started happening when the Cisco IOS
> was upgraded in one or more of CRL's routers has caused route instability
> and packet lossage. I'm told that this should be resolved later tonight
> with an IOS patch, and more permanently in the next few days.
>    If all this weren't enough, we're having problems with the WC T1 being
> overloaded due to congestion, losing packets because of input CRC errors,
> and occasionally losing carrier on the CSU/DSU. I'm on it...

That indeed matches with what I'm seeing: lots of packet loss in general
and a complete black hole once every couple of minutes for some seconds.

-Guido