I get back from the pool this evening, to find my connection to RPI to be rather laggy. Traceroutes show that there have been some crappy topology changes on my route from SCRR-11426 (RR Charlotte) to RPI-AS (RPI) that have effectively changed the RTT from 32ms to around 68ms.
Since my WAN infrastructure (eh, two cable modems, colo at SagoNet, and a host at RPI) is almost completely fully-meshed at this point, I just tweaked some OSPF settings, and routed traffic through NJ. So ...
64 bytes from starfire.prolixium.com (10.3.4.1): icmp_seq=29 ttl=63 time=79.6 ms
64 bytes from starfire.prolixium.com (10.3.4.1): icmp_seq=30 ttl=63 time=76.5 ms
(en, conf t ... etc.)
64 bytes from starfire.prolixium.com (10.3.4.1): icmp_seq=32 ttl=62 time=50.9 ms
64 bytes from starfire.prolixium.com (10.3.4.1): icmp_seq=33 ttl=62 time=49.7 ms
Don't VPN's rock? Yes! Do I need a life? Yes!
