Re: ATM Question

["Thomas P. Brisco" <brisco () globix net>]

        One of our guys just cleared out the CEF table on
the effected interface - now pings go through just fine ...
As noted earlier, mere changes in packet options were enough to
cause different behavior [I'm trying to find a Bug-ID associated
with this ....]

                                                        - Tom

On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Jeff Bartig wrote:

> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:27:03 -0500
> From: Jeff Bartig <jeffb () doit wisc edu>
> To: Richard Inhand <chapinhand () yahoo com>, nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: ATM Question
>
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> On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:50:10AM -0700, Richard Inhand wrote:
> > I'm currently looking into a weird problem at an ATM
> > peering point on the West Coast, when I ping from my
> > peer router to any of my peers I get some but not
> > total packet loss, when I ping from one router back or
> > use the loopback interface as source things are fine.
> > Whereas, with all my other ATM peering point routers,
> > for example at MAE-EAST I can ping my peers cleanly
> > from the same router. This isn't (to my knowledge)
> > affecting traffic just wondering why this strange
> > phenomenon should occur only in the one place.
>
> Have you verified the return path of the packets from your peers?
> Are they getting to you via that peering connection or taking a
> different path back to you?