[outages] Cogent packet loss ???

[Matthew Huff]

Anyone seeing massive packet loss passing through cogent? Traceroutes appear to be okay, but we are getting a lot of vpn disconnects as well as lost ping packets when we traverse cogent.

1     4 ms     4 ms     5 ms  74.101.107.1
 2     4 ms     9 ms    10 ms  g1-1-1-5.nycmny-lcr-21.verizon-gni.net [130.81.21.150]
 3   104 ms     7 ms     7 ms  ae0-0.ny325-bb-rtr2.verizon-gni.net [130.81.209.10]
 4    19 ms     7 ms     7 ms  0.xe-3-2-0.br2.nyc4.alter.net [152.63.20.213]
 5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 6    68 ms     *       53 ms  te0-3-0-5.mpd21.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.5426.61]
 7   145 ms     *       56 ms  te0-1-0-6.ccr21.jfk04.atlas.cogentco.com [154.541.162]
 8     *      158 ms     *     38.104.73.238
 9    68 ms     *        *     xe-8-3-0.nycmnyzrj91.lightower.net [72.22.160.15]
10   123 ms     *      136 ms  xe-7-2-0.whplnywpj91.lightower.net [72.22.160.12]
11    68 ms     *       65 ms  162.211.110.2.hvdata.net [162.211.110.2]
12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
13    57 ms    56 ms     *     firewall.ox.com [129.77.1.1]
14   160 ms    57 ms     *     firewall.ox.com [129.77.1.1]
15    71 ms   159 ms    59 ms  firewall.ox.com [129.77.1.1]

trace complete.

:\Users\mhuff.MATTHUFF>ping -t 129.77.1.1

C:\Users\mhuff.MATTHUFF>ping -t 129.77.1.1

Pinging 129.77.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 129.77.1.1: bytes=32 time=69ms TTL=251
Reply from 129.77.1.1: bytes=32 time=69ms TTL=251
Reply from 129.77.1.1: bytes=32 time=66ms TTL=251
Request timed out.
Reply from 129.77.1.1: bytes=32 time=68ms TTL=251
Request timed out.
Reply from 129.77.1.1: bytes=32 time=66ms TTL=251
Reply from 129.77.1.1: bytes=32 time=66ms TTL=251
Reply from 129.77.1.1: bytes=32 time=71ms TTL=251
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 129.77.1.1: bytes=32 time=68ms TTL=251
Reply from 129.77.1.1: bytes=32 time=68ms TTL=251
Request timed out.
Reply from 129.77.1.1: bytes=32 time=68ms TTL=251
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 129.77.1.1: bytes=32 time=68ms TTL=251
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 129.77.1.1: bytes=32 time=141ms TTL=251
Request timed out.
Request timed out.