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Re: Verizon Issues? East Coast US


From: Chris Tracy <ctracy () es net>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 11:47:39 -0500

Seeing some packet loss via Cogent.
www.internetpulse.net seems to be lighting up.
I'm noticing it too.  POP in Grand Rapids, circuit to Detroit.  Packet loss,
but no total loss of connectivity.

Interesting.  I began to notice trouble reaching google about a week ago from 2 different east-cost Verizon FiOS lines 
-- one business and one residential -- but my problem appears to be congestion at the AS701 <> AS15169 border.  I'm not 
noticing any loss across AS701.

These problems began around 9am Eastern on Saturday Feb 19th -- see attached smokeping graph.  You can see the diurnal 
pattern in the loss -- packet loss peaks between 9a-4p ET.  Of course, I can get toipv6.google.com without any loss at 
all via my HE tunnel!

In both cases, mtr shows ~50% loss beginning at google-gw.customer.alter.net (152.179.50.62), the first hop in AS15169. 
 It's clear that I must be losing more ICMP than TCP packets given that google webpages come up fairly quickly, but 
youtube videos hang ever since this started.

Anybody else seeing this?

Thanks,
-Chris

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Chris Tracy <ctracy () es net>
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory


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