Re: Severe Packet loss

["Justin M. Streiner" <streiner () cluebyfour org>]

On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Gary Steers wrote:

> Is anyone else having major issue's tonight/this morning?
>
> We our having issue's and our upstream provider is reporting route
> flaps, the say its affecting quite a few networks but just checking if
> anyone else is having issue's???

You'll generally get more helpful responses from NANOG and other forums if 
you provide more detail than "major issue's[sic]" and "route flaps". 
People will be more inclined to help or offer suggestions if you provide 
details and have done some research into the problem already.

For example:
What major issues were you seeing?  Can those issues be defined with 
traceroutes, snapshots of BGP route views, reproducible difficulties in 
reaching a particular site, etc?  What other carriers were reporting 
problems?  Can you provide a source and destination address that is having 
connectivity issues?

When you say "our upstream provider", are you single-homed or 
multi-homed?

Speaking from my own little corner of the world, I haven't seen any major 
connectivity problems here in the past 24 hours.

jms