Level 3 issues in Miami/West Palm Beach

Wed Jan 14 02:27:50 UTC 2015

In this case, it appeared to be a customer's edge router, not a
core/backbone router...although those did seem to have rather high latency
(400ms and higher in some cases) and high packet loss (about 18-20%).

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Stephen Satchell <list at satchell.net> wrote:

> On 01/13/2015 03:18 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:52:49 -0600, Blair Trosper said:
> >> All packets traveling through customer edges and routers in
> Miami/Daytona
> >> seem to be incurring *extraordinary* latency (4+ seconds) all of a
> sudden.
> >
> > I'm impressed that the routers have sufficient buffer memory to do that.
> >
>
> That is what buffer bloat is all about -- too much queue and too little
> circuit.
>