RE: Qwest (fwd)

[Eric Germann <ekgermann () cctec com>]

No.  I was adding a datapoint to "... don't recall the last outage they've sustained on an edge router ..."

At 12:16 AM 4/14/01 -0400, Martin, Christian wrote:
> Most of my sesions have been live for over 150 days.  I suppose I am lucky.
> Are you suggesting bad linecard = sucky network?
>
> chris
>
> > > > purchase connectivity from them, even if their network didn't suck.
> > >
> > > What makes you think this?  Perhaps you can share your 
> > experiences that
> > > would substantiate this claim.  I have rarely seen cross 
> > country RTTs exceed
> > > 70 msec (right now it's 58msec from nyc to sfo) and don't 
> > recall the last
> > > outage they've sustained on an edge router, let alone core 
> > disruption.  I
> >
> > wdc-edge-03.inet.qwest.net
> >
> > Last friday night for about 4 or 5 hours.  Flapping T-1's.  
> > Traced to bad line card.  I know.  I hung off of it.
> >
> >
> >
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