Plethora of UUnet outages and instabilities

Wed Jul 2 01:17:48 UTC 1997

Thats my point. It often ISN'T easy. For example, say you've got a
7505 in one spot and find its getting killed. You can't put an rsp4 in
a 7505. You've got to replace the router. Anyone got any spare 7507s
or 7513s lying around? Chances are that if they do, its 2 or 3.

Its actually going to be a bit more problematic to split the load
between two routers since that can mean notable changes in the
internal routing or the BGP tables. Not to mention calculating what
kind of traffic is going to pass BETWEEN the two routers.

Straightforward, yes. Easy, no.

> Why wouldn't upgrading the router's CPU or splitting the load between two 
> separate routers solve the problem? Maybe that's not an overnight 
> solution [unless you have spare RSPs in the POP/colo point] but it seems 
> pretty straight forward to me.
> 
> -Deepak.
> 
> On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Wayne Bouchard wrote:
> 
> > I know one of the problems that UUNET has been having (and I believe
> > several other folks as well) is high CPU usage on many of their
> > routers. (When the ping times to the router itself get high its either
> > a congested link or, usually, a router thats spinning hard..) However,
> > thats not a problem you can fix easily or fix overnight.
> > 
> > > Oh God, NYC1.  Look out for that ugly beast...  We are unfortunate enough
> > > to have a connection off of that thing.  The NOC is good, if you're up for
> > > entertainment.  Let me count the times I've heard "what's traceroute" on
> > > the phone with them.  Let me tell you about outages where they "forgot to
> > > take the loopback off the T" for like 6 hours.  Or my favorite (once you
> > > hit a high-level brainwashed engineer) the good old "I don't see *any*
> > > packet loss, so everything is OK".  "Yes, but I'm seeing ping times of
> > > 500ms to your router, and our line isn't near saturation by a long
> > > shot"...  "I don't see any packet loss", etc...
> > > 
> > > blech.  I would not recommend them to my worst enemy.
> > > 
> > > Charles
> > > 
> > > ~~~~~~~~~					     ~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > Charles Sprickman 				Internet Channel
> > > INCH System Administration Team		   	   (212)243-5200
> > > spork at inch.com					 access at inch.com
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 18:18:06 -0400
> > > > From: Alex Rubenstein <alex at nac.net>
> > > > To: Josh Beck <jbeck at connectnet.com>, nanog at merit.edu
> > > > Subject: Re: Plethora of UUnet outages and instabilities
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > All I know is they suck moose nipples, and I disconnected from them last
> > > > week. They have been having problems in/around cr1.nyc1 for MONTHS now, and
> > > > they are doing nothing (that I can see) to fix it. Thier first-level
> > > > support is horrendous. One guy once said to me, "Routers have
> > > > processors?!". Another hung up when I told him to put "CUSTOMER IS IRATE"
> > > > on the trouble ticket. 
> > > > 
> > > > There are some GOOD guys over there, but them seem to be disappearing? (are
> > > > you there, Mr. Hannan?)
> > > > 
> > > > HELLO, GENUITY (anyone who is looking for a new provider, Genuity is DAMN
> > > > good. and a DAMN good NOC. Sales guys are a little whacky, tho).
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > At 02:12 PM 6/30/97 -0700, Josh Beck wrote:
> > > > >Has everyone else been seeing the almost daily UUnet outages recently,
> > > > >does anyone know what the true causes of these have been?
> > > > 
> > > > ---
> > > > 
> > > >  "Don't go with a spineless ISP;
> > > > 	we have more backbone."	
> > > > 
> > > > Alex Rubenstein -- alex at nac.net -- KC2BUO -- www.nac.net
> > > > net @ccess corporation, 201-983-0725 -- 201-983-0725
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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Wayne Bouchard                             GlobalCenter
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Primenet Network Engineering               Internet Solutions for
(602) 416-6422   800-373-2499 x6422        Growing Businesses
FAX: (602) 416-9422
http://www.primenet.com                    http://www.globalcenter.net
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