Dashboard > Internet End-to-End Performance Monitoring > Event Diagnosis > Anomaly Case Studies
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August 22, 2006 Problems From BNL August '06' BNL unreachable from some places INPROCESS.
August 4, 2006 Problems accessing S. African host 04 August '06' Denial of Service attack, followed by loss of power UNDERSTOOD.
July 25, 2006 Problems with BINP-SLAC link July '06 Power problems in Akademogorock region causes many services to be unavailable from SLAC to BINP -UNDERSTOOD.
May 18, 2006 Poor throughput for GLAST data transfers between SLAC and NRL Washinton Too small TCP windows set at default, firewall limiting throughput, application needs to apply ssh throughput patches, mandated application cannot use multiple streams or big windows, alternate path had port blocking. -UNDERSTOOD.
May 14, 2006 Throughput between SLAC and Taiwan TCP windows and number of parallel styreams needed optimizing UNDERSTOOD.
May 9, 2006 Large increase in RTT from South Africa to CERN April 2006 Change in routing traffic from S. Africa to CERN from using GEANT to going via Abilene and the U.S. after Abilene started exchanging traffic with S. African TENET UNDERSTOOD.
February 1, 2006 Problems with Oracle between SLAC and ORNL, Jan 2006 Appears to be an application problem UNDERSTOOD.
January 22, 2006 Effect of ESnet routing change between SLAC and SDSC San Diego Sunnyvale connectivity was interrupted by Level(3) maintenance. An alternate path was used. This study looks at the impact on the various IEPM metrics of the route change UNDERSTOOD
December 28, 2005 Problems with link to and from BNL Multiple paths seen from and to BNL showed step downs in pathchirp performanceBelieved to be related to the host at BNL NOT RESOLVED
September 10, 2005 Problems with Stanford's Connectivity Fan failure in Cisco 15454 causes route to CENIC/Sunnyvale to fail, and switch over to using ESnet UNDERSTOOD
August 16, 2005 Problems with link to and from BNL Fiber cut causes OC48 outage and fail over to a T3 link UNDERSTOOD
July 1, 2004 Fiber outage to Pakistan June 27th to July 8, 2005 Fiber cut off coast of Karachi causes 12 day outage to Pakistan UNDERSTOOD
May 31, 2005 New Route from SLAC to BINP Novosibirsk via GLORIAD See the effect of the new route in improving RTT and throughput UNDERSTOOD.
April 18, 2005 Loss of Connectivity between SLAC and BINP Novosibirsk Some change caused the connectivity between SLAC and BINP to be blocked by firewalls in Novosibirsk.
September 2, 2004 Loss of Connectivity from SLAC for about 10 hours Due to CENIC maintenance SLAC lost conectivity to many sites from around midnight until 10:30am, This is nicely illustrated in traceroutes taken each 10 minute interval to multiple sites from SLAC and in particular can be nicely visualized by means of a topology map. -UNDERSTOOD
February 25, 2004 Network performance to Pakistan Shows Internet performance from SLAC to a few Pakistani sites, including: differences in performance depending on providers; identifying bottlenecks; effects of upgrade for NIIT; routing between Pakistani sites going via London -UNDERSTOOD
January 8, 2004 Effect of routing on RTTs and losses to 2 sites in Hangzhou, China Site with better Internet connectivity had much larger RTTs, but lower losses - UNDERSTOOD
October 3, 2003 Throughput from SLAC to Caltech reduced by a factor of 5 CENIC's routing to Caltech was incorrect RESOLVED
July 23, 2003 Route to Sox (Southern Crossroads) has been changed, the bandwidth increased in factor 2 Abilene routing, traceroute analysis RESOLVED
June 12, 2003 Effect of change from Internet2 to ESnet for the routes from SLAC to Europe 2 problems, routing for IN2P3, incorrect iperf configuration for CESnet RESOLVED.
June 10, 2003 Daresbury lab (UK) One of our important partner Daresbury lab (UK) upgraded line to Internet to 1GBitper second Routing RESOLVED.
June 6, 2003 Routing changes hit many sites in US Routing RESOLVED
May 22, 2003 SLAC to CERN RTT Anomalies Routing RESOLVED
May 20, 2003 Loss of connectivity between SLAC and Novosibirsk Misconfigured router RESOLVED
May 7, 2003 The unusual bandwidth drop to European sites (connected via Abilene)
May 1, 2003 The influence of strong LAN traffic on target hosts in monitoring results (NERSC,ANL) Effect of local NFS traffic RESOLVED
November 6, 2002 Change of Routing to NCSA and others Change of routing RESOLVED
September 20, 2002 Change of Routing Network connectivity problems reports from BWESLAC-UK, and SLAC-ANL RESOLVED
July 26, 2002 Network connectivity between SLAC and BINP, Novosibirsk following upgradeResults of effectiveness of network upgrade RESOLVED
May 30, 2002 Change of Routing between UK and US Routing Change RESOLVED
Mar 21, 2002 Poor throughput from SLAC to INFN,Rome Poor packet loss RESOLVED
Jan 4, 2002 A sudden change in bandwidth utilization Throughput from monitoring host suddenly dropped from several hundreds of Mbits per second to about 100Mbits per second due to turning on debugging flags RESOLVED
Jan 8, 2002 Problems with performance between SLAC and IN2P3, Jan '02 Only ~ 20Mbits/s throughput achievable on 30Mbps ATM VP bottleneck RESOLVED
Dec 13, 2001 Problems with performance between SLAC and CERN Large router buffers adversely affect interactive use RESOLVED
Sep 27, 2001 Nework connectivity between SLAC and RL, UK Poor performance from SLAC to Rutherford Lab, UK caused by firewall and small windows RESOLVED
Sep 19, 2001 Problems with links from SLAC to IHEP.SU High packet loss prevents ssh access, due to host problems RESOLVED
Sep 11, 2001 Impact of World Trade Center & Pentagon attacks on Internet performance How did the WTC collapse affect Internet connectivity for SLAC RESOLVED.
May 3, 2001 Qbone Scavenger Service at SLAC Need to find hosts/sites to try with QBone Scavenger services RESOLVED
Mar 28, 2001 International Internet connectivity from SLAC Request for information on quality of International links RESOLVED
Mar 19, 2001 Comparing ihep.ac.cn with cas.ac.cn - March 2001 Request to understand the proposed effect of changing an ISP RESOLVED
Mar 1, 2001 Packet loss on Stanford-Pac Bell DSL links - Mar 01
Feb 25, 2001 Packet loss on Stanford-Pac Bell DSL links Feb 01Problems with users DSL service due to bad pairs to home RESOLVED
Jan 27, 2001 Throughput between Tersk03 and Kangadata Problems in host to host throughput on LAN due to windows being to small RESOLVED
Jan 22, 2001 Network connectivity between SLAC and IN2P3, Jan 2001 Problems with throughput between SLAc and IN2P3 due to misconfigured ATM/PVC RESOLVED
Jan 12, 2001 Network connectivity between SLAC and Platform Computing Problems between SLAC and a commercial site due to poor routing RESOLVED
Dec 18, 2000 Network connectivity between SLAC and UT Dallas Multiple probelms with throughput between SLAC and UTDallas due to small windows and packet loss RESOLVED WINDOW PROBLEM
Dec 07, 2000 Network connectivity between SLAC and IN2P3, Lyon, France User question on suitability of network connections to BaBar tier A regional computing site RESOLVED
Dec 06, 2000 Network connectivity between SLAC and BINP, Novosibirsk Investigation of poor throughput from SLAC to Novosirbirsk, resulting in successful recommendation for link upgrade RESOLVED
Sep 11, 2000 Caltech to SLAC thruputPoor throughput from Caltech to SLAC while SLAC to Caltech was OK partially RESOLVED by moving from ESnet to Internet 2 PARTIALLY RESOLVED
Sep 03, 2000 SLAC to ILAN (Israel) thruput Poor performance between SLAC and Israel caused by ESnet upgrade to router using incorrect BGP configuration RESOLVED
May 16, 2000 Stanford to SLAC file transfer problems Poor throughput between SLAc and Stanford campus, required resetting an ATM interface RESOLVED
May 09, 2000 UK to US QoS Testing QoS did not appear to be working, the direction it was applied in was not congested RESOLVED
May 02, 2000 Throughput Performance between SLAC and CERN Big asymmetry in the throughputs from SLAC to IN2P2 and vice versa, partially due to Cisco web cache NOT RESOLVED
Apr 15, 2000 Troubleshooting VPN Disconnects Mainly some hints on tracking Microsoft VPN problems.
May 23, 1999 Ping Measurement Pathology Examples Pings from Linux to WNT on a LAN with normal RTT < 10 msec, manifest an unusual regularity in the sequence number separation of the pings with > 10msec. Probably an OS effect. RESOLVED

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