Hi all. I am happy to inform you that MTN has finally made it to the exchange, and are peering fine. Please see below for some preliminary ping and traceroute results from Africa Online to MTN:
Ping bash-2.05$ ping mail.mtn.co.ug PING mail.mtn.co.ug (212.88.97.60): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 212.88.97.60: icmp_seq=0 ttl=122 time=48.747 ms 64 bytes from 212.88.97.60: icmp_seq=1 ttl=122 time=22.327 ms 64 bytes from 212.88.97.60: icmp_seq=2 ttl=122 time=24.128 ms 64 bytes from 212.88.97.60: icmp_seq=3 ttl=122 time=23.423 ms 64 bytes from 212.88.97.60: icmp_seq=4 ttl=122 time=22.609 ms 64 bytes from 212.88.97.60: icmp_seq=5 ttl=122 time=22.436 ms 64 bytes from 212.88.97.60: icmp_seq=6 ttl=122 time=23.136 ms 64 bytes from 212.88.97.60: icmp_seq=7 ttl=122 time=99.040 ms ^C --- mail.mtn.co.ug ping statistics --- 8 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 22.327/35.731/99.040/25.374 ms bash-2.05$ Traceroute C:\>tracert www.mtn.co.ug Tracing route to www.mtn.co.ug [212.88.97.20] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms afol-gw.africaonline.co.ug [10.176.10.254] 2 <10 ms <10 ms 10 ms afol-ipg1.africaonline.co.ug [216.104.200.1] 3 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms afol-ipg-2-71.africaonline.co.ug [216.104.202.71] 4 170 ms 230 ms 20 ms mtn-uixp.uixp.co.ug [194.153.153.16] 5 621 ms 621 ms 631 ms 212.88.97.55 6 220 ms 250 ms 60 ms distrouter.mtn.co.ug [212.88.97.49] 7 70 ms 20 ms 20 ms ping.mtn.co.ug [212.88.97.58] 8 30 ms 20 ms 30 ms dns.mtn.co.ug [212.88.97.20] Trace complete. C:\> I congratulate MTN on getting to the exchange as promised, and as I always say, we are looking forward to the rest of the members joining. Regards, Mark Tinka - CCNA Network Engineer, Africa Online Uganda
