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In article <4869p8$kp@oversteer.library.uwa.edu.au>,
carl@oversteer.library.uwa.edu.au (Carl Brewer) wrote:
> I have to point out that this is purely personal opinion and speculation,
> nothing I am writing is in any way policy or official opinion of anyone
> or anything even remotly connected to the University of Western Australia.
> 
> We are still experiencing ~40% packet losses across the Nullaboor.
> 
> As I understand it,  the problem is not with AARNet per se, but is a
> problem with the Telstra (not Telstra Internet, Telstra proper) FastPac II
> 2MB/s link.  The link is not saturated, there is a problem with it.
> 
> I also understand that the major point of contention for the majority of
> AARNet users is the US link, and understandably so.  Since the most noise
> gets made about it, it gets more attention.

Well - Whoever's fault it is, it NEEDS fixing !

The packet loss is still there this morning.  I just pinged national.gw.au
and got packet loss:

ping -s national.gw.au
PING national.gw.au: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from national.GW.AU (192.43.209.1): icmp_seq=0. time=312. ms
64 bytes from national.GW.AU (192.43.209.1): icmp_seq=1. time=342. ms
64 bytes from national.GW.AU (192.43.209.1): icmp_seq=3. time=367. ms
64 bytes from national.GW.AU (192.43.209.1): icmp_seq=4. time=508. ms
64 bytes from national.GW.AU (192.43.209.1): icmp_seq=6. time=451. ms
64 bytes from national.GW.AU (192.43.209.1): icmp_seq=10. time=565. ms
64 bytes from national.GW.AU (192.43.209.1): icmp_seq=11. time=359. ms
^C
----1.209.43.192.in-addr.arpa PING Statistics----
13 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 46% packet loss
round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max = 312/414/565

traceroute national.gw.au
traceroute to national.gw.au (192.43.209.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  gw.highway1.net.au (203.7.224.2)  35 ms  2 ms  2 ms
 2  wa.gw.au (139.130.159.1)  33 ms  33 ms  33 ms
 3  national.gw.au (139.130.85.1)  494 ms *  558 ms

This is just not acceptable guys !

Not to mention Telstra's undertaking to supply a service with no more than
400ms ping time between gateways !

> We are attempting to work through our own beaurocracy to actually get to the
> people who are in a position to fix it (Telstra, not TIS, as I understand,
> I'm sure Geoff Huston wants it fixed too ...), I suspect that this means
> we will have to get our VC to complain (and that, I suspect, will be
> no mean task to get her to do so).  

The REAL pain in all this is that noone in Telstra seems to know what's
going on - Who are we meant to be talking to !?  Geoff ?

> You didn't read this, I didn't write it, and it being posted from UWA
> is the product of a deranged mind that assumes no responsibility for 
> its accuracy or relevance to this newsgroup.  Bart Simpson wrote it.
> Homer did the spellchecking and Ren and Stimpy run the NNTP server.

:)

Ken
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