Unacceptable Delay

Fri Jul 11 16:04:42 UTC 1997

I would say a lot of the delay is in packet loss.. with MW down, ME is
really loaded at this time.. I get as much as 60% packet loss just pinging
across the Ring.  OUCH!

Eric

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      Eric D. Madison - Senior Network Engineer -   
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On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Rodney Joffe wrote:

> It's interesting to note the delay in the NANOG mailer. I don't know if
> there's any manual operation involved, but according to the headers, Rob
> posted this at 7:43, it was received at 7:43 pdt by MERIT, and shipped
> out at 8:15 pdt.
> 
> I guess we're lucky this isn't an operational list, where time might be
> important ;-)
> 
> Can we improve this?
> 
> 
> Rodney Joffe
> Chief Technology Officer
> Genuity Inc., a Bechtel company
> http://www.genuity.net
> 
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> Subject: It's always fun
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