There are, yes. Some even just do coordination and you run it yourself at no 
cost (well, payment to the facility). 

Then Equinix is at $350/month/each, TelX and DRT are $250 - $275 (Sometimes DRT 
is just an NRC if solely in the MMR). I'm not sure on Coresite. Those are your 
biggest players in interconnection. *shrugs* 




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From: "Josh Reynolds" <[email protected]> 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2016 5:05:03 PM 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Switch packet loss during high bandwidth 


That's so dumb :P 
There are quite a few colo facilities where XC is a one time charge. 


On Nov 5, 2016 4:51 PM, "Mike Hammett" < [email protected] > wrote: 




Cost, yes. At $350/month for a cross connect, you choose your cross connect 
orders wisely. 

A router is more likely to need maintenance than a switch. Moving frames is 
pretty easy any may not need much for firmware updates. Routers on the other 
hand do lots of things and with that many things comes the increased likelihood 
of need for a firmware update. Dual routers means you don't have to drop your 
customers to perform said maintenance. You're also more likely to be doing ACLs 
and QOS on routers, which likely reduces performance from line rate, especially 
during DDoS type events. having some extra fire power is handy. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 






From: "Paul Stewart" < [email protected] > 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2016 10:21:15 AM 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Switch packet loss during high bandwidth 

So you expect the router to die? why not two x-connects to the provider back to 
two switches? Cost? 



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On Nov 5, 2016, at 10:56 AM, Mike Hammett < [email protected] > wrote: 


I have a switch so I can get a /29 from the provider and have multiple PE 
routers on a single cross connect. 




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Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 






From: "Paul Stewart" < [email protected] > 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2016 9:10:42 AM 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Switch packet loss during high bandwidth 

Yeah good point… first question that comes to mind is why upstream provider 
connection is connected to a switch … why not go from router to provider and 
then router to the switch keeping all “downstream” traffic in the switch 





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On Nov 5, 2016, at 9:14 AM, Josh Reynolds < [email protected] > wrote: 


With the limited information you've given, I'd put money on microbursts. 
For all your traffic higher than 1Gbps, that data has to get buffered on egress 
ports of devices. Eventually, traffic will get dropped to make room for new 
traffic. This is far worse in places where you may also have 100Mbps ports. 
"doesn't seem to be affecting the wan side of my router which connects to peers 
through the same switch" this was the kicker to me, combined with the "~2Gbps" 
line. 


On Nov 5, 2016 3:12 AM, "TJ Trout" < [email protected] > wrote: 

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I have a 10G switch that is switching everything of mine at my NOC, including 
peers, router wan, router lan, uplink to tower, etc 


During peak traffic periods ~2gbps I'm seeing 1% packet loss and throughput 
will drop to 0 for just a second and resume normal for a few minutes before 
dropping back to zero for just a second. doesn't seem to be affecting the wan 
side of my router which connects to peers through the same switch. Doesn't 
happen during the day with low periods of traffic. 


I've enabled / disabled STP, Flow control. 


I believe I've isolated it to not be a single port, possibly have a bad switch 
but that seems hard to believe... 


Ideas? 


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