[AG-TECH] ANL network loss RESOLVED
Bill Nickless
nickless at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Mar 28 16:01:03 CST 2002
Two problems conspired to cause ANL network lossage: a bottleneck in the
path from Argonne to Abilene and a user application that did not back off
in the face of congestion.
Fiber jumpers are being installed today to increase the bandwidth from the
current shared OC-3 (155 megabits/sec) bottleneck to a private Gigabit
Ethernet (1000 megabits/sec). We expect to test and turn up this new
circuit on Tuesday (2 April 2002).
The user has been contacted and has agreed to "mellow" the application. It
was sending 10,000-20,000 packets/sec from Argonne to California, and was
working fine with 20% packet loss!!! I explained that if the application
was seeing 20% packet loss, so were other applications, and that Access
Grid in particular was not tolerant of 20% packet loss.
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