Re:How did I get here?
by jcims on Friday November 07, 2025 @07:53PM
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Dealt with something similar 25 years ago as a new guy at a large bank.
They had a DS3 to AT&T for Internet and a T1 to Sprint for 'back-up' in case the primary went down. Same AS, but 75% of the Internet traffic perferred the Sprint return route.
Our 'network guy' couldn't figure out why everyone in this company (100k employees) was experiencing worse than dial-up performance at their desks. Took about 10 minutes to see what the issue was (using reverse traceroute from a looking glass server out there somewhere).
As soon as we fixed that, ran into the next problem. Dude built a caching proxy server on a Sun e4500 with ONE disk.
They had a DS3 to AT&T for Internet and a T1 to Sprint for 'back-up' in case the primary went down. Same AS, but 75% of the Internet traffic perferred the Sprint return route.
Our 'network guy' couldn't figure out why everyone in this company (100k employees) was experiencing worse than dial-up performance at their desks. Took about 10 minutes to see what the issue was (using reverse traceroute from a looking glass server out there somewhere).
As soon as we fixed that, ran into the next problem. Dude built a caching proxy server on a Sun e4500 with ONE disk.
Got to be a hero for a little bit lol.