Gene.Hastings@BOOLE.ECE.CMU.EDU (12/24/88)
Thanks to all who contributed. Have an uneventful holiday. - Gene
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Message-Id: <8812231652.AA09094@morgul.psc.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 88 11:42:21 EST
From: John Bilos <jbilos@cc7.bbn.com>
Subject: Re: Possible ARPA segmentation next week? Danger, Will Robinson!
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wednesday, 21 December 1988 12:34:29 EST
To: hastings@morgul.psc.edu
Cc: jbilos@cc7.bbn.com
There is a terrestrial link between the URoch (n15) and UWisc (n94) which
will be operational during this period of time. The BSATS will also provide
cross country connectivity.
JB
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Message-Id: <8812230052.AA07874@morgul.psc.edu>
To: hastings@morgul.psc.edu
Cc: rpyle@BBN.COM
Subject: Possible ARPANET segmentation? Probably not.
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 88 19:44:43 -0500
From: Robert Pyle BBNCC 20/672 x3518 <rpyle@BBN.COM>
Gene:
There will still be a transcontinental terrestrial path with CMU down, from
RCC5 to UROCH to WISC to SAC, etc. This is not to say that CMU's absence
will go unnoticed! The path from DCEC through CMU to PURDU is just about
the most heavily-used part of ARPANET, largely due to Internet traffic being
forwarded via the EGP server gateway at PURDU.
The week after Xmas is usually the low point of the year for traffic, and
the new Butterfly mailbridges are starting to carry some of the
MILNET-ARPANET traffic that has in the past been forwarded via PURDU, so I
don't think there will be any crisis.
Most of the transcontinental traffic already flows over the various
satellite lines, anyway, so even if no terrestrial path remained, I doubt
there would be a big change in quality of service (provided all the
satellite lines don't go down at the same time!).
Happy holidays!
--Bob Pyle, BBN Communications
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Date: Thu 22 Dec 88 17:29:02-EST
From: Rob Austein <SRA@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Subject: [Possible ARPA segmentation next week? Danger, Will Robinson!]
To: Net-Users@bitsy.mit.edu, MIT-IP-People@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <12456542032.15.SRA@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU>
FYI. I think Gene is wrong about the wideband net being the only link
left (the MIT77<->SRI51 satellite link should still be operational),
but he's right that things may get pretty grim next week.
--Rob