solar flares effecting anyone else?

Wed Apr 11 20:58:42 UTC 2001

We were losing approx. 40 xDSL circuits at one time for a few days last
week.. No problem this week.. It has Cisco and Me stumped.

mark

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Mark Segal
Director, Data and Internet Planning
Axxent Corp.
Tel: (416)907-2858

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Mercer [mailto:jim at reptiles.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:46 PM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: solar flares effecting anyone else?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> i've got an E1 circuit that goes:
> 
> Toronto -> Amsterdam (fiber)
> Amsterdam -> Islamabad (satelite)
> Islamabad -> Karachi (fiber)
> 
> for the last couple days, my router has been seeing an 
> abnormally high number
> of "carrier transitions".
> 
> a parse of the log shows 400+ UPDOWN syslog messages from the 
> cisco for
> today (4:pm Eastern), and some 400 for yesterday.
> 
> prior to that maybe 0-10 a day.
> 
> i've openned a ticket with the circuit provider, but by 
> asking the list, i
> was hoping to be prepared for a "must be solar flares" excuse.
> 
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