Thanks for the quick response. I agree that without additional data, there's little else to conclude. I've put in place monitoring and logging of the route, so if the issue occurs again, we shall have more information to assess the likely cause.
My server is located in a NJ data center and is only a few ms and hops to the NY based exchanges and my broker. I have never had a network issue (> 1 year), but my previous data provider was also NY based. I've only been running IqFeed as a live data source for four days.
For reference, this is the route to your solar2 server:
1 x.x.x.x (x.x.x.x) 0.586 ms 0.645 ms 0.771 ms
2 207.99.53.41 (207.99.53.41) 0.408 ms 0.423 ms 0.421 ms
3 0.e1-1.tbr1.tl9.nac.net (209.123.10.102) 1.411 ms 1.405 ms 0.e1-3.tbr2.mmu.nac.net (209.123.10.26) 0.476 ms
4 0.e1-1.tbr2.tl9.nac.net (209.123.10.78) 1.367 ms 1.459 ms 1.439 ms
5 xe-11-1-3.edge8.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.31.30.37) 1.632 ms 1.626 ms 1.597 ms
6 vlan70.csw2.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.155.126) 47.160 ms 47.200 ms vlan60.csw1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.155.62) 47.182 ms
7 ae-92-92.ebr2.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.148.45) 46.057 ms ae-72-72.ebr2.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.148.37) 45.837 ms ae-82-82.ebr2.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.148.41) 45.967 ms
8 ae-48-48.ebr2.NewYork2.Level3.net (4.69.201.38) 46.794 ms 46.769 ms ae-45-45.ebr2.NewYork2.Level3.net (4.69.141.22) 46.835 ms
9 ae-2-2.ebr1.Chicago1.Level3.net (4.69.132.65) 47.130 ms 46.793 ms 48.258 ms
10 ae-6-6.ebr1.Chicago2.Level3.net (4.69.140.190) 46.733 ms 47.003 ms 46.965 ms
11 ae-3-3.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net (4.69.132.61) 47.258 ms 46.994 ms 46.978 ms
12 ae-22-52.car2.Denver1.Level3.net (4.69.147.100) 222.894 ms 222.742 ms 222.645 ms
13 DTN.car2.Denver1.Level3.net (4.53.2.94) 56.465 ms 57.481 ms 57.469 ms
14 66.112.152.58 (66.112.152.58) 59.367 ms 59.374 ms 59.263 ms
15 solar2.interquote.com (66.112.156.222) 56.198 ms !X 56.680 ms !X 56.858 ms !X
I just ran a 5 minute test on this route with the following results:
Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. x.x.x.x 0.0% 377 1.0 0.9 0.5 17.8 0.9
2. 207.99.53.41 0.0% 377 0.6 1.6 0.4 33.7 2.9
3. 0.e1-3.tbr2.mmu.nac.net 0.0% 377 0.7 2.6 0.5 28.8 3.4
4. 0.e1-1.tbr2.tl9.nac.net 0.0% 377 1.5 2.1 1.4 24.5 1.9
5. xe-11-1-3.edge8.NewYork1.Level3.net 0.0% 376 1.8 2.9 1.6 59.4 5.8
6. vlan70.csw2.NewYork1.Level3.net 0.0% 376 47.4 47.6 46.9 61.1 1.8
7. ae-72-72.ebr2.NewYork1.Level3.net 0.0% 376 46.4 46.6 46.0 60.5 1.5
8. ae-47-47.ebr2.NewYork2.Level3.net 0.0% 376 46.9 47.4 46.9 59.2 1.3
ae-48-48.ebr2.NewYork2.Level3.net
ae-46-46.ebr2.NewYork2.Level3.net
ae-45-45.ebr2.NewYork2.Level3.net
9. ae-2-2.ebr1.Chicago1.Level3.net 0.0% 376 47.0 47.3 46.6 58.7 1.6
10. ae-6-6.ebr1.Chicago2.Level3.net 0.0% 376 48.3 47.4 46.6 72.6 2.3
11. ae-3-3.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net 0.0% 376 48.4 47.4 46.6 71.0 1.8
12. ae-22-52.car2.Denver1.Level3.net 0.0% 376 165.6 68.9 46.6 278.2 47.0
13. DTN.car2.Denver1.Level3.net 0.0% 376 58.2 67.5 57.2 899.8 56.1
14. 66.112.152.58 0.0% 376 58.0 58.3 57.2 200.8 7.4
15. solar2.interquote.com 0.0% 376 57.0 57.2 56.8 69.0 0.8
Even at this time (1:30AM EST), although all packets are getting through, there seem to be some issues around the node DTN.car2.Denver1.Level3.net, with latency of up to 900ms and significant jitter. I presume this is where your data center connects with Level3. This may just be ICMP rate limiting though, since the final node shows no such jitter.
Edited by dk_brad on May 13, 2014 at 01:13 AM