carrier comparison

Fri Feb 7 21:42:48 UTC 2014

This is exactly what I thought had happened....The outage that affected you was one our two routers up-stream from your connection to that provider.

I am not trying to defend any Carrier, but there is no 'routing protocol' what will react to this kind of an issue.....

Regards.

Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet & Telecom
7266 SW 48 Street
Miami, FL 33155
Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232

Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: Support at Snappytelecom.net 

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vlade Ristevski" <vristevs at ramapo.edu>
> Cc: "nanog list" <nanog at nanog.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 7, 2014 3:57:00 PM
> Subject: Re: carrier comparison
> 
> We don't get a default route from them. At the time of the outage my bgp
> session was up and I had a full routing table from them.  I didn't have
> much time to troubleshoot it in that state since we were down so I had
> to disable the session ASAP. Once the RFO comes in, I'll be asking a lot
> more questions about it. My only experience with BGP is as a customer so
> I'm not too familiar with the intricacies on the provider side. We had
> an outage in the AM the same day and we failed over just fine. I'm very
> curious why the same didn't happen in the evening.
> 
> 
> 
> On 2/7/2014 3:03 PM, Bryan Socha wrote:
> > Did you verify your problem was announcements on the other side of the
> > outage?   This sounds to me like you are using a bgp announced default
> > route from cogent which is always sent.    I think the problem was you
> > were sending traffic out a path that was broken.   Since you mentioned
> > your outbound balancing this would explain some packet loss and not
> > 100% loss.
> >
> >
> > Bryan Socha
> > Network Engineer
> > DigitalOcean
> 
> --
> Vlade Ristevski
> Network Manager
> IT Services
> Ramapo College
> (201)-684-6854
> 
> 
> 