Ah, that old-age problem of designing redundancy to cover one failure, but not two.
Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Shore Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 4:41 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Level3 in the Midwest is KIA I've been told that there are 2 issues. One was fiber cut, I believe in the Houston area. The second issue was a card failure, also in the Houston area. Both failures contributed to a loss on a backbone ring that covers a portion of the Midwest. The master ticket number is 2332102 for those who want updates. Justin Justin Shore wrote: > > L3 dropped us at 13:30CST. I've been told that whatever happened took > out everything from KC to Wichita to Little Rock to Houston. No word on > the cause and no ETA yet. They're handing us 37 routes which is a far > cry from the roughly 237,000 we'd normally get. I recognize 3 of the > routes too as routes local to the Wichita area. > > FYI > Justin > >