Today Wednesday 13/05/2015 at 12:20 UTC+2 an installation engineer working on the PE under maintenance in EQUINIX AM3, while testing one of the newly installed 100GE modules, accidentally placed a loop on the ISP peering VLAN.
DETAILS:
The loop caused a high CPU on all backbone and customer modules resulting in many BGP sessions dropping.
The incident lasted 10 minutes.
BGP sessions are restoring.
RSS for all categories
The majority of BGP sessions has flapped.
We will contact the exchange point to get more information.
Subject: Platform instability.
Status: open/closed
Opened: 2015-05-13 13:27:50 +0200
Type: unscheduled
Scope: AMS-IX NL
Start: 2015-05-13 12:20:00 +0200
Start (RemoteTime): 2015-05-13 12:20:00 +0200
End: 2015-05-13 12:31:00 +0200
End (RemoteTime): 2015-05-13 12:31:00 +0200
DESCRIPTION:
Dear Tech-L subscribers,
Today Wednesday 13/05/2015 at 12:20 UTC+2 an installation engineer working on the PE under maintenance in EQUINIX AM3, while testing one of the newly installed 100GE modules, accidentally placed a loop on the ISP peering VLAN.
DETAILS:
The loop caused a high CPU on all backbone and customer modules resulting in many BGP sessions dropping.
The incident lasted 10 minutes.
BGP sessions are restoring.