AT&T/Alternet outage in Chicago?

Sat Dec 8 19:38:03 UTC 2001

I've been seeing lots of strange problems with my AT&T SDSL for the 
last couple days. I think it has to do with AT&T's integration of 
their cablemodem services... because it started in the bay area the 
same time they started bring their broadband cablemodems back up. The 
routing is also different than normal, and the Flowpoint router is 
getting lots of errors and discards. (I'm dumb about SDSL, all I know 
is that these numbers increase whenever my connection slows to a 
crawl).

The error count on the router is also way up:
interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifInErrors.1 = 3
interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifInErrors.2 = 257723
interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifInErrors.3 = 76258
interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifInErrors.4 = 0
interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutErrors.1 = 200
interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutErrors.2 = 0
interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutErrors.3 = 0
interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutErrors.4 = 0
ip.ipInHdrErrors.0 = 3881
ip.ipInAddrErrors.0 = 0
icmp.icmpInErrors.0 = 13
icmp.icmpOutErrors.0 = 0
udp.udpInErrors.0 = 0

interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifInDiscards.1 = 3237349
interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifInDiscards.2 = 112
interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifInDiscards.3 = 0
interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifInDiscards.4 = 0
interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutDiscards.1 = 158246
interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutDiscards.2 = 0
interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutDiscards.3 = 0
interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutDiscards.4 = 0
ip.ipInDiscards.0 = 106517
ip.ipOutDiscards.0 = 0
ip.ipRoutingDiscards.0 = 0