[plug] Free WAIX traffic for WA Swiftel users

[Leon Brooks]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 21:15, Scott Middleton wrote:
> WestNet is having problems with their Layer2 service at them moment
> but fortunately it doesn't affect most of our clients because they
> are bridged.

WestNet is having problems with their internal routing. I can traceroute 
from a WN ADSL customer to another customer who is primarily homed with 
ArachNet but who apparently has some echoes of "prefixed" routes left 
in WN - to whom they are also connected - and the traffic ping-pongs 
between two WN routers until it dies. Meanwhile, traffic between any 
two WN DSL hosts just plain dies. It has been so for at least three 
days.

WestNet don't often stuff things up, but this time they seem to have 
excelled themselves.

If you want dead-set reliable DSL, Optus and Request (really 
RUCC.net.au) are hard to go past, but don't expect much by way of free 
traffic, and don't expect magic too far from the CBD.

BTW, my ArachNet DSL connection went away in a power failure on 
Thursday, after 72 days of continuous connection at the same IP 
address. I now have a fixed IP so I can second some mail and stuff.

Cheers; Leon

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