[afnog] AMS-IX concerns

[Adam Nelson]

I finally got the right person at AMS-IX and they've confirmed the chart
reflects erratic traffic from just one peer.  It's non-public though so it
could be JTL, SEACOM, Safaricom, or Google.  We know it's not Google and
probably not SEACOM so that leaves 2 candidates.  My money is on JTL (where
the worst problems have been lately).

Anyway, hopefully it will get fixed.

-Adam

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On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Andrew Alston <
Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com> wrote:

>   Could also be a counter issue on the graphs that’s wrapping?
>
>  Though not sure if that would go all the way to a gig before it wrapped?
>
>  *Andrew Alston*
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>   From: Adam Nelson <adam at varud.com>
> Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 6:31 PM
> To: Frank Habicht <geier at geier.ne.tz>
> Cc: "afnog at afnog.org" <afnog at afnog.org>
> Subject: Re: [afnog] AMS-IX concerns
>
>  Frank,
>
>  JTL is totally hosed right now but this was happening yesterday too.
>
>  Unfortunately, there aren't daily charts farther back that I can see.
>
>  I understand the manual thing but this chart shows, suspiciously, that
> the throughput gets up to about 1Gbps and then drops dramatically - then
> gets back up there, and drops again.  That seems like routing around a
> throttled connection or something automatic.
>
>  -Adam
>
>
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> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Frank Habicht <geier at geier.ne.tz> wrote:
>
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> according to
>> https://eastafrica.ams-ix.net/connected_parties
>> there are 4 peers connected (IXP NOC not counted).
>>
>> if one or two of them occasionally see better routes (not via IXP) to
>> destinations at one or two of the other peers, something like this can
>> easily happen imho.
>>
>> It look like it happens quite often, and doesn't last long, so routes are
>> unstable. Generally not good. that happening only during work hours I
>> would
>> guess one (or more) humans are part of this - ie not because of
>> saturation.
>> My _feeling_ ....
>>
>> only participating networks, or route server operator are really able to
>> tell.
>> (Oh, and I heard: one of the participants is doing a network upgrade)
>>
>> Frank
>>
>>
>> On 10/29/2014 6:03 PM, Adam Nelson wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I'm looking at the following chart:
>> >
>> > https://eastafrica.ams-ix.net/technical--4/statistics
>> >
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ncjo6o4yi0lgivd/2014-10-29%20at%202.24%20PM.png?dl=0
>> >
>> > I've looked at enough charts to see that the flat top at 1Gbps with deep
>> > dips signals a saturation of some sort.
>> >
>> > However, I'm getting a very negative response from AMS-IX and since they
>> > won't give out peering data, there's no way to confirm my suspicions
>> that
>> > something is wrong there.
>> >
>> > Anyway, does anybody have any information to support or refute the
>> claim?
>> > I may be totally wrong (which would be fine) but I really don't know.
>> > Unfortunately, JTL, Safaricom, and KENET are all mostly down today so
>> I'm
>> > having trouble doing much research.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Adam
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