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>From: "D. J. Raymond" <address@hidden> >Organization: NMT >Keywords: 200307041809.h64I9TLd018509 IDD LDM-6 Hi Dave, >I have changed my setup as you suggest -- how are we doing on >latencies now? The latencies for IDS|DDPLUS and UNIWISC have dropped to near zero: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/rtstats/iddstats_nc?IDS|DDPLUS+heron.nmt.edu http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/rtstats/iddstats_nc?UNIWISC+heron.nmt.edu but the HDS latencies remains high: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/rtstats/iddstats_nc?HDS+heron.nmt.edu This is consistent with your postulating that there is possibly some sort of packet shaping being done on your campus, but it is also consistent with some sort of outbound packet shaping being done at your upstream feed site. The behavior we are seeing right at the moment is the same as we saw at the University of Louisana-Monroe a couple of weeks ago. Their problem turned out to be feed limiting of some sort (the exact cause was never determined) at or near the upstream LDM site (LSU). I say at or near because the LSU IT folks and the LSU SRCC contact said that nothing was being done in networks they are overseeing that would purposefully limit the feed. There was, however, an open trouble ticket on the network that connected LSU to I2. Since the LDM on heron has not been running for a sufficient length of time to really know how well the HDS ingest is working, I would ask you to leave the feed as it is for at least a day. After a day (4 model output cycles), if the HDS latencies remain high, I would like you to change your HDS request from yin.engin.umich.edu to rainbow.al.noaa.gov. We know that rainbow.al.noaa.gov does not have any restrictions on their outbound traffic, so if your HDS latencies remain high after switching to it, then the problem is at or near NMT. If the latencies drop to zero, the problem is closer to U Mich. Tom >From address@hidden Tue Jul 15 18:51:09 2003 >Hi Tom, >OK, I'll leave it set up this way for a day. >Dave