[outages] Bay Area packet loss at Comcast (gblx.net, he.net)

Constantine A. Murenin mureninc at gmail.com
Sat Jan 19 01:37:26 EST 2013


I think this happens practically every evening recently, for traffic
between Comcast in NorCal and Linode at he.net in Fremont, around
gblx.net.

Today I have been monitoring through a crontab script since 16:00 PT,
with a 10-minute mtr runs in a loop.  The traffic loss has started in
the 20:50/21:00 timeframe, and is still ongoing (22:20).  There
weren't a 10-minute interval between 20:50 and 22:20 without at least
a 4% packet loss (often more than that).


2013-01-18T20:50:09-0800
HOST: li163-###                                        Loss%   Snt
Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1. router1-fmt.linode.com                            0.0%   600
47.5  29.2   0.5 304.2  38.4
  2. 10gigabitethernet2-3.core1.fmt1.he.net            0.0%   600
0.6  16.3   0.6 929.0  64.5
  3. 10gigabitethernet1-2.core1.sjc2.he.net            0.5%   600
2.4   4.1   0.7  41.9   6.4
  4. Port-channel100.ar3.SJC2.gblx.net                 2.2%   600
75.7  31.8   0.8 1160.  76.7
  5. po6-20G.ar4.SJC2.gblx.net                         1.3%   600
19.9  33.4   0.9 917.4  72.8
  6. lag8.ar5.SJC2.gblx.net                            3.3%   600
1.1   4.4   0.9  22.3   5.4
  7. 208.178.58.2                                      4.2%   600
4.2   4.2   1.5  39.7   2.1
  8. pos-2-7-0-0-cr01.sanjose.ca.ibone.comcast.net     6.8%   600
10.6   7.2   4.7  43.8   2.9
  9. pos-1-4-0-0-cr01.sacramento.ca.ibone.comcast.net  3.7%   600
20.7   9.5   7.0  26.7   1.9
 10. te-7-3-ar02.saltlakecity.ut.utah.comcast.net      4.7%   600
92.1  12.4   7.4 129.2  19.1
 11. 69.139.222.50                                     3.3%   600
7.9   8.1   7.6  59.3   2.6
 12. te-1-0-0-ten05.sacramento.ca.ccal.comcast.net     3.2%   600
14.3  14.4  14.1  26.0   1.6
 13. 74-93-180-##-Sacramento.hfc.comcastbusiness.net   4.2%   600
20.9  21.7  14.2 193.0  13.6
2013-01-18T21:00:10-0800

2013-01-18T21:30:04-0800
HOST: li163-###                                        Loss%   Snt
Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1. router1-fmt.linode.com                            0.0%   600
0.6  11.0   0.5 202.3  21.2
  2. 10gigabitethernet2-3.core1.fmt1.he.net            0.0%   600
4.5  20.2   0.5 315.3  46.0
  3. 10gigabitethernet1-2.core1.sjc2.he.net            0.0%   600
11.5   3.4   0.7  25.9   3.7
  4. Port-channel100.ar3.SJC2.gblx.net                 6.2%   600
1.0  28.5   0.8 845.3  65.5
  5. po6-20G.ar4.SJC2.gblx.net                         9.8%   600
1.2  32.6   0.9 689.9  68.5
  6. lag8.ar5.SJC2.gblx.net                           12.2%   600
1.0   4.8   0.9  26.9   5.4
  7. 208.178.58.2                                     12.0%   600
5.2   4.4   1.6  39.0   2.2
  8. pos-2-7-0-0-cr01.sanjose.ca.ibone.comcast.net    13.0%   600
7.6   7.3   4.7  45.0   2.8
  9. pos-1-4-0-0-cr01.sacramento.ca.ibone.comcast.net 11.5%   600
7.6   9.6   7.2  24.1   2.1
 10. te-7-3-ar02.saltlakecity.ut.utah.comcast.net     12.3%   600
7.6  12.6   7.4 162.7  19.7
 11. 69.139.222.50                                    12.2%   600
8.0   8.5   7.6 157.5   6.9
 12. te-1-0-0-ten05.sacramento.ca.ccal.comcast.net    11.0%   600
14.3  14.8  14.1  29.2   2.3
 13. 74-93-180-##-Sacramento.hfc.comcastbusiness.net  12.5%   600
15.9  26.3  14.4 417.3  33.3
2013-01-18T21:40:04-0800

2013-01-18T22:00:01-0800
HOST: li163-###                                        Loss%   Snt
Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1. router1-fmt.linode.com                            0.0%   600
17.2  19.9   0.5 195.7  27.4
  2. 10gigabitethernet2-3.core1.fmt1.he.net            0.0%   600
1.1  31.0   0.5 1666. 109.0
  3. 10gigabitethernet1-2.core1.sjc2.he.net            0.0%   600
0.8   3.3   0.7  13.2   3.6
  4. Port-channel100.ar3.SJC2.gblx.net                 5.5%   600
2.0  27.7   0.9 290.3  56.5
  5. po6-20G.ar4.SJC2.gblx.net                        13.3%   600
1.0  33.5   0.9 770.0  71.0
  6. lag8.ar5.SJC2.gblx.net                           16.8%   600
15.0   5.7   0.8  30.1   6.0
  7. 208.178.58.2                                     17.2%   600
5.9   4.5   1.5  30.2   2.4
  8. pos-2-7-0-0-cr01.sanjose.ca.ibone.comcast.net    18.5%   600
7.2   7.3   4.9  34.8   2.4
  9. pos-1-4-0-0-cr01.sacramento.ca.ibone.comcast.net 17.8%   600
9.8   9.6   7.1  24.0   2.1
 10. te-7-3-ar02.saltlakecity.ut.utah.comcast.net     15.8%   600
7.7  12.8   7.4 177.3  19.8
 11. 69.139.222.90                                    17.0%   600
7.9   8.9   7.6 164.0   8.3
 12. te-1-0-0-ten05.sacramento.ca.ccal.comcast.net    13.3%   600
14.3  15.1  14.1  27.9   3.0
 13. 74-93-180-##-Sacramento.hfc.comcastbusiness.net  17.5%   599
21.4  20.5  14.3 147.7   9.5
2013-01-18T22:10:07-0800


Anyone else has noticed?  ssh is completely unusable for a couple of
seconds every now and again.

It seems to have subdued back to a 0% loss as of 22:20/22:30 window,
but I bet it'll be back.

C.



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