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Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter () ukbroadband com>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:21:07 +0100
Shields Up? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/19/star_trek_shield/ Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
With certain susceptible Sun CPUs which were popular during the last sunspot maxima, this was actually demonstrably true (and acknowledged by Sun), so don't laugh too hard. ---rob Leigh Porter <leigh.porter () ukbroadband com> writes:Somebody form a certain large network vendor actually blamed problems with their kit on cosmic rays causing memory corruption... -- Leigh Porter Jay Hennigan wrote:Andre Oppermann wrote:Audie Onibala wrote:Yesterday on 04/16/07 between 3:00 - 3:45 PM we had sporadic Internet problem. Our ISP's are Sprint and Qwest.Around that time there was quite a bit sunspot activity and the moon had an unusual position too. The NOC contacts of your ISP's probably may be of more specific help. But make sure to ask them for their networks SPF (sunspot protection factor). That's an important metric to qualify their network reliability.Are you sure it was sunspots? My NOC contacts were seeing substantial memory corruption due to cosmic rays. -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay () impulse net Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/ Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV
Current thread:
- BGP Problem on 04/16/2007 Audie Onibala (Apr 17)
- Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007 Andre Oppermann (Apr 17)
- Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007 Jay Hennigan (Apr 17)
- Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007 Leigh Porter (Apr 19)
- Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007 tony sarendal (Apr 19)
- Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007 Robert E. Seastrom (Apr 19)
- Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007 Leigh Porter (Apr 19)
- Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007 Warren Kumari (Apr 19)
- RE: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007 David Temkin (Apr 19)
- Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007 Marshall Eubanks (Apr 19)
- Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007 Robert E. Seastrom (Apr 19)
- Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007 Douglas Otis (Apr 19)
- Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007 Warren Kumari (Apr 19)
- Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007 Jay Hennigan (Apr 17)
- Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007 Steven M. Bellovin (Apr 19)
- Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007 Andre Oppermann (Apr 17)
- Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007 Stephen Wilcox (Apr 20)
- Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007 Elmar K. Bins (Apr 20)
- Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007 Daniele Arena (Apr 20)