Mail Server Outage

[Tony Alfrey]

David Bandel wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Sorry for the outage today.
> 
> Recently, C&W (Cable and Wireless Panama) decided to move from
> synchronous frame relay circuits to ATM circuits.  They changed their
> platform from Cisco to Nortel.
> 
> I have 3 circuits.  One 2Meg circuit now gives less then 1 Mb in
> either direction. A second 1Mb circuit drops connections (I suspect
> they've misconfigured the platform and are dropping ATM cells to rate
> limit the circuit rather than limiting it before/after it goes to
> ATM).  My main circuit (the 2Mb line the mail server is on) they took
> down for testing today (it has suffered from dropped packets and slow
> transfer rates, particularly as bandwidth approaches 1.6Mb+).
> 
> Any ATM/Nortel experts interested in being expert witnesses?  I will
> be meeting with my lawyers next Tuesday.
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> David A. Bandel

Bummer.  You could just move across the Gulf to Louisiana where 
*everything* is workin'.



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Tony Alfrey
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"I'd Rather Be Sailing"