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=============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ =============================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:53:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden> To: Robb Kambic <address@hidden> address@hidden Subject: Re: failed over to niu Hiya Robb, > > > I just failed over to you this morning. Logged in and no data from > > Gilbert, et al. > > I want to clarify the confusion about the UCAR network connections. UCAR > is connected by 2 major ISP's Qwest and UUNET to eliminate the single > point of failure syndrome. The network connection that one site receives > is sometimes based on the desination, amount of traffic, and also the > availability of the network. Therefore it is possible for the routes to > change from UCAR to the the top tier nodes. At this point, I don't > believe that this type of architecture should/will cause any problems. For you, no. But for those who have multiple ISP's as well (like us), that does present a problem. Anybody who has UUNET/ALTER.NET as their ISP automatically goes through our saturated and slow T1 line from Norlight. While they're working to get the new Centurynet online in Illinois...we have the problem of anyone freeding from us via UUNET experiencing large latencies..and data dropouts. So, it's kind of weird. Personally, I think our T3 provider (Genuity, formerly BBN, BBNPLANET, and GTE Internetworking) is awesome, and I'd rather just have the T1 shut down until there is a problem. Oh, well. ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** Internet: address@hidden (My opinions only!) ****** Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** E-mail: address@hidden *** web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** Work phone: 815-753-5492 * *******************************************************************************