Re: Triple Play [was: CAUTION: Potentially Dumb Question...]

2006-02-07 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Christian Kuhtz wrote: If you're near real time, you have lots of options actually. And I would contend that p2p can be efficient for broadcast distribution actually. There already are several startups doing exactly that for large scalability. Yep. Lots of startups have

NANOG36 PGP Key Signing

2006-02-07 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
The key signing will be on Monday at 3pm in the State room. If you can't make it, feel free to submit keys as there will be a follow-up session during the Wednesday morning break. So get those keys in and I'll see you in Dallas! --msa -snip- Stickers

Re: Triple Play [was: CAUTION: Potentially Dumb Question...]

2006-02-07 Thread Christian Kuhtz
On Feb 7, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Sean Donelan wrote: On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Christian Kuhtz wrote: If you're near real time, you have lots of options actually. And I would contend that p2p can be efficient for broadcast distribution actually. There already are several startups doing exactly that

Middle Eastern Exchange Points

2006-02-07 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
I know of a Cairo IXP, and possibly one in the UAE. Is there one in Kuwait as yet?

Re: Middle Eastern Exchange Points

2006-02-07 Thread Marshall Eubanks
There is one in Pakistan, and maybe Dubai. I would address this question to the SANOG list. Regards Marshall On Feb 7, 2006, at 12:48 PM, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: I know of a Cairo IXP, and possibly one in the UAE. Is there one in Kuwait as yet?

RE: Triple Play [was: CAUTION: Potentially Dumb Question...]

2006-02-07 Thread Bora Akyol
I think the main challenge in making this type of media distribution a reality is not the technology, we mostly know how to make it work. The real challenge is the content owners' willingness to make the content available while preserving their IP rights. -Original Message- From:

Re: Interesting netflow entry

2006-02-07 Thread Bill Nash
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Wil Schultz wrote: Incidentally (because I ask everyone this), what's your flow volume (flows per second)? Cannot get ahold of the machine until tomorrow. I did a 'wc' on 4 devices for 5 minutes and it comes out to just under 3600, about 11-12 per second... Erm,

Re: Interesting netflow entry

2006-02-07 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Bill Nash wrote: Erm, that seems kind of low. Flow volume for two 6509s in what I consider a small to medium size hosting site, with about 6+ gigs of differentiated egress generates more than 8 to 9 *thousand* flows per second, and that's after discard incomplete tcp

Re: Middle Eastern Exchange Points

2006-02-07 Thread Gadi Evron
Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: I know of a Cairo IXP, and possibly one in the UAE. Is there one in Kuwait as yet? ISOC-IL is running the IIX for Israel.

Re: Interesting netflow entry

2006-02-07 Thread Bill Nash
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: Are you sure you're getting everything? he did previously state he was only using about 120mbps... and it'd depend upon his/your sample rates as well... Missed that part. Even so, 120mbps of actual usage, I would expect to see a higher

Re: Middle Eastern Exchange Points

2006-02-07 Thread Aaron Glenn
On 2/7/06, Howard C. Berkowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know of a Cairo IXP, and possibly one in the UAE. Is there one in Kuwait as yet? http://www.emix.net.ae/ it's flash heavy fyi

Re: Middle Eastern Exchange Points

2006-02-07 Thread Martin Hannigan
I know of a Cairo IXP, and possibly one in the UAE. Is there one in Kuwait as yet? Yes, KIX. Note, there's CIX and CRIX. If you are trying to reach African users, there's also KIX ala Kenya. -M -- Martin Hannigan(c) 617-388-2663 Renesys Corporation

eastern Nebraska regional service problem (Sprint, ATT, Qwest transport?)

2006-02-07 Thread neal rauhauser
I'm talking to an ISP in eastern Nebraska who has a DS3 to Sprint. They've got a peer they tie to with private fiber. That peer has a DS3 from ATT. Both normally see 20ms response times on pings from their border routers to the carrier router. Since last Thursday the Sprint connected

Re: Did anyone else notice the CAIDA skitter poster in the background of George Bush's speech at the NSA?

2006-02-07 Thread k claffy
[warning NOT operationally relevant, just need to clarify] re http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/ts/122805nsaspying/im:/060125/480/dcev10301252131;_ylt=Ag51RnYLYcMpHtd_Cq9ZJCNiWscF;_ylu=X3oDMTA3dmhrOGVvBHNlYwNzc20- thanx to those who forwarded this, it was news to us. note that the

Re: Middle Eastern Exchange Points

2006-02-07 Thread Joe Abley
On 7-Feb-2006, at 11:27, Aaron Glenn wrote: On 2/7/06, Howard C. Berkowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know of a Cairo IXP, and possibly one in the UAE. Is there one in Kuwait as yet? http://www.emix.net.ae/ it's flash heavy fyi Note that EMIX is a transit service, not really peering.

Re: Middle Eastern Exchange Points

2006-02-07 Thread Joe Abley
On 7-Feb-2006, at 11:54, Martin Hannigan wrote: I know of a Cairo IXP, and possibly one in the UAE. Is there one in Kuwait as yet? Yes, KIX. Note, there's CIX and CRIX. If you are trying to reach African users, there's also KIX ala Kenya. The exchange point in Nairobi is called KIXP,

Re: Interesting netflow entry

2006-02-07 Thread Wil Schultz
Got my hands on the box today, looks like it is Skype. Below is a support article from their site: http://support.skype.com/index.php?_a=knowledgebase_j=questiondetails_i=148

Re: ml hacks for goodmail

2006-02-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Randy Bush: so, anyone working on the majordomo and mailman hacks for goodmail? i am sorry, but you can not subscribe to this list from an aol.com address. don't ask us to explain, ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] or am i missing something here? clue-bat if so, please. I don't expect the existing

Re: Middle Eastern Exchange Points

2006-02-07 Thread Martin Hannigan
At 04:11 PM 2/7/2006, Joe Abley wrote: On 7-Feb-2006, at 11:54, Martin Hannigan wrote: I know of a Cairo IXP, and possibly one in the UAE. Is there one in Kuwait as yet? Yes, KIX. Note, there's CIX and CRIX. If you are trying to reach African users, there's also KIX ala Kenya. The

RE: Middle Eastern Exchange Points

2006-02-07 Thread Frank Bulk
A look at Telegeography's bandwidth maps suggest that the African routes are predominantly coastal. http://www.afridigital.net/downloads/DFIDinfrastructurerep.doc adds some more detail. Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Abley

Re: NANOG36 PGP Key Signing

2006-02-07 Thread Michael Loftis
--On February 7, 2006 7:29:56 AM -0800 Majdi S. Abbas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PGP on a Mac: I assume the procedure is similar to the one for Windows, but cannot confirm this. Hopefully it's easy enough to figure out. Depends on what you're

Re: Interesting netflow entry

2006-02-07 Thread Wil Schultz
Apparently not, this looks more like it: Time window: Feb 05 2006 22:56:57 - Feb 07 2006 16:58:10 Flows analysed: 202925 matched: 202925, Bytes read: 10028280 Sys: 0.500s flows/second: 405167.7 Wall: 1.293s flows/second: 156923.1 Just a few more than 11 -Wil

FYI - RFC 4367 on What\'s in a Name: False Assumptions about DNS Names

2006-02-07 Thread william(at)elan.net
I think some of the people here may want to read this new RFC: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4367.txt RFC 4367 Title: What\'s in a Name: False Assumptions about DNS Names Author: J. Rosenberg, Ed., IAB

Re: FYI - RFC 4367 on What\'s in a Name: False Assumptions about DNS Names

2006-02-07 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, william(at)elan.net wrote: I think some of the people here may want to read this new RFC: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4367.txt Small comment - its probably not the people here that need to read it but people at http://www.icann.org But then again it doesnt

Re: CAUTION: Potentially Dumb Question...

2006-02-07 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Randy Bush wrote: I'm interested in responses to this ... MPLS is still a four letter word .. :) http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2006-02/converged.html here's me hiding this article from 'management' who are again chasing the 'converged' network :( In some cases it

Re: CAUTION: Potentially Dumb Question...

2006-02-07 Thread Randy Bush
http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2006-02/converged.html here's me hiding this article from 'management' who are again chasing the 'converged' network :( In some cases it appears convergence makes some sense, I think often though (in my very humble experience) it's more of a buzzword-compliance

Re: Middle Eastern Exchange Points

2006-02-07 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Joe Abley wrote: I would not be surprised if the toplogical centre of today's African Internet turned out to be the LINX. Yep, with 111 8th close behind. On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Frank Bulk wrote: A look at Telegeography's bandwidth maps suggest that

Re: So -- what did happen to Panix?

2006-02-07 Thread Nick Feamster
Martin Hannigan wrote: My answer, in short, was to say that I see it as more of an enterprise play because it's a managed service and the hardest part of provisioning is typically the order cycle. If you are an ISP, you are theoretically multi homed by definition and your providers are going

Re: So -- what did happen to Panix?

2006-02-07 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Nick Feamster wrote: As an aside, another question occurred to me about delaying unusual announcements. Boeing Connexion offers another example of unorthodox prefix announcements. Wouldn't the tactic of delaying unusual announcements would cause problems for this

Re: Middle Eastern Exchange Points

2006-02-07 Thread Martin Hannigan
At 10:30 PM 2/7/2006, Bill Woodcock wrote: [ SNIP ] Anyway, back to the conversation at hand: On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: Middle Eastern Exchange Points I know of a Cairo IXP, and possibly one in the UAE. Is there one in Kuwait as yet? All the

Re: So -- what did happen to Panix?

2006-02-07 Thread Martin Hannigan
At 11:27 PM 2/7/2006, Nick Feamster wrote: Martin Hannigan wrote: My answer, in short, was to say that I see it as more of an enterprise play because it's a managed service and the hardest part of provisioning is typically the order cycle. If you are an ISP, you are theoretically multi homed

Re: Middle Eastern Exchange Points

2006-02-07 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Martin Hannigan wrote: Interconnecting in a government exchange is still peering. Uh, not if it's buying transit. They are peering, even if it isn't by our definitions. Uh, Marty... the difference between peering and transit is that they have

Re: So -- what did happen to Panix?

2006-02-07 Thread Josh Karlin
Chris has it! And to be clear, we only require a slow (1 day) provider changeover in the case that you want to announce your old provider's sub-prefix at a new provider. For instance, if you are an ATT customer using a 12/8 sub-prefix and change providers but keep the prefix, the prefix will

Re: Middle Eastern Exchange Points

2006-02-07 Thread Martin Hannigan
At 11:55 PM 2/7/2006, Bill Woodcock wrote: On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Martin Hannigan wrote: Interconnecting in a government exchange is still peering. Uh, not if it's buying transit. They are peering, even if it isn't by our definitions. Uh, Marty... the difference

Re: Middle Eastern Exchange Points

2006-02-07 Thread Joe Abley
On 7-Feb-2006, at 20:50, Martin Hannigan wrote: As Joe's pointed out, what's available in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait are governmental monopoly incumbent transit services, a la STIX, as opposed to Internet exchanges where peering takes place. There are several private colocation

Re: Middle Eastern Exchange Points

2006-02-07 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Bill Woodcock wrote: different definitions. If you say transit is peering, just not by our definitions, then you're into 1984 territory. So what exactly is definition of transit that does not make it peering? And when ISP A buys access from ISP B for purpose of getting

Re: Middle Eastern Exchange Points

2006-02-07 Thread Martin Hannigan
At 01:11 AM 2/8/2006, Joe Abley wrote: On 7-Feb-2006, at 20:50, Martin Hannigan wrote: As Joe's pointed out, what's available in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait are governmental monopoly incumbent transit services, a la STIX, as opposed to Internet exchanges where peering takes place.