Line card failure router Nikhef Monday 11th August 2025 23:55:51


We had a linecard failure on our router in Nikhef Amsterdam, this caused temporary downtime as internet traffic was blackholed and after ~10 minutes rerouted via our transits in Eindhoven.

The incident has been closed and a RFO has been published: https://support.cbws.xyz/en/announcements/article/2025-08-11-public-network-connectivity-incident

The router in Nikhef Amsterdam is online, we are monitoring the situation

We are restarting the affected linecard in the router in Nikhef Amsterdam to bring back the currently offline peering and transit connections connected to this linecard