Re: Sasktel issues

Heh, it turns out that it was a combination of the two. Our line did go
down, S'tel has dispatched a truck, and the routing was causing some
VPN's in Ab. to loose connections. :)

Cheers,
lance

Keith Snape wrote:
> It's going to be intermittent until the Edmonton side (Bigpipe) issues
> are resolved, it looks like.
>
> They've been using bypass links, but as each bypass gets saturated we
> end up running into the same issues that we've had for the past 24hrs.
>
> -- snip from an update we received a few minutes ago --
>
> The link is being bypassed through another connection but with limited
> bandwidth so everyone should be up and working fine NOW; the problem
> is that with the bypass we may see the same issue of slow internet and
> randomly not being able to access web pages at some point today. The
> issue for now is not an issue but has the potential to come back agian
> if we max out the current bypass link.
>
> On 2/1/07, Dave Hall <dave-slg@dnh.sk.ca> wrote:
>> If you can get someone at each site to do a traceroute out to some IP
>> outside SaskTel land, you should be able to figure out if your
>> problems are
>> related to the Edmonton issue or if they are local. If you can get a few
>> hops into SaskTel territory, then it's probably the Edmonton router. If
>> you can't get beyond your edge device, then it's local and you should bug
>> SaskTel to fix it.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Dave

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