LINX issues
The London Internet Exchange (LINX) are currently experiencing problems. Our connections to LINX are no longer carrying traffic and this is having an impact on some clients who would normally cross LINX to reach us.
The linecard which caused the original switch crash at LINX has now been swapped out with a spare card. The LINX network is still running in manual mode, however their NOC have indicated that if they are happy the new switch linecard is stable they will shortly re-enable automatic circuit protection and turn up the routeservers which have been disabled following the original incident.
Please note that our network is not directly affected by this issue, however hundreds of other UK networks are affected by the LINX issue, causing latency and packetloss. Around 400gbps of data was affected at the peak, as can be seen at the following image. We will update you further once the LINC NOC confirm the status of the peering exchange.
December 9, 2009
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This afternoon LINX were able to fully stabalize their Brocade peering LAN and we have now reenabled our usual peering connections. We have tested everything and confirmed that everything appears fully operational.
We apologise any inconvenience caused by these LINX issues.
If you have any queries or are still experiencing issues with connecting to other ISPs, please let us know and we will endeavour to contact the other networks and ensure that they have the capacity to route around LINX to us if they have not yet resolved their LINX issues.