clarification: Re: links on the blink (fwd)

Tue Nov 7 05:58:08 UTC 1995

btw, That's 10^-5 packet loss (0.001%).  I just got email asking what
the units were.  I think the acceptance test uses 1000 byte packets.

Curtis

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To: "Steven J. Richardson" <sjr at merit.edu>
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Reply-To: curtis at ans.net
Subject: Re: links on the blink (fwd) 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Nov 1995 15:18:15 EST."
             <199511062018.PAA08597 at home.merit.edu> 
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 23:14:45 -0500
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis at ans.net>

In message <199511062018.PAA08597 at home.merit.edu>, "Steven J. Richardson" write
s:
>  
>   Uh...  Michael, when we were running the NSFNET, as Hans-Werner and
>   many readers of this list are well aware, we did _not_ accept 10% packet
>   loss on any link or across the network.  These problems stayed with 
>   the NSFNET NOC until resolution by the provider, MCI.  We only considered 
>   -0%- loss to be acceptable.

Steve,

Enough of your wild stories of -0%- loss.  :-)  The correct figure was
10^-5 for acceptance with 10^-4 being the maximum threshold we would
accept on a running circuit before contacting MCI to take the circuit
in a maintenance window for diagnostics.  That doesn't mean we
wouldn't bug MCI to get the circuits back perfectly clean.  ;-)

We still have the same criteria.  I think MCInet is also as vigilant.

Curtis

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