Trouble with Marconi ASX-200BX

2007-09-21 Thread Bjoern
Hi, sorry for a little offtopic. But i donĀ“t knew a better place for hopefully find help. We had a little trouble when trying to configure a new Marconi Fore ASX-200BX ATM Switch with an running config from another Marconi ASX-200BX. Some of the config commands, seemed not to be known by

Re: Going dual-stack, how do apps behave and what to do as an operator (Was: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?)

2007-09-21 Thread Mark Andrews
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: On 9/15/07, Jeroen Massar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [spam: Check http://www.sixxs.net/misc/toys/ for an IPv6 Toy Gallery :)] Somewhat long, hopefully useful content follows... Barrett Lyon wrote: [..] [ clip ] Of course when there is only a A or

Re: Going dual-stack, how do apps behave and what to do as an operator (Was: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?)

2007-09-21 Thread Martin Hannigan
On 9/21/07, Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: On 9/15/07, Jeroen Massar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [spam: Check http://www.sixxs.net/misc/toys/ for an IPv6 Toy Gallery :)] Somewhat long, hopefully useful content follows... Barrett Lyon

The Cidr Report

2007-09-21 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Sep 21 21:15:31 2007 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of AS2.0 router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org for a current version of this report. Recent Table History Date

BGP Update Report

2007-09-21 Thread cidr-report
BGP Update Report Interval: 20-Aug-07 -to- 20-Sep-07 (32 days) Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS2.0 TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS Rank ASNUpds % Upds/PfxAS-Name 1 - AS4538 1090414 1.8% 445.1 -- ERX-CERNET-BKB China Education and Research Network Center

Re: Going dual-stack, how do apps behave and what to do as an operator (Was: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?)

2007-09-21 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 21-sep-2007, at 7:54, Martin Hannigan wrote: All applications are supposed to use getaddrinfo() which sorts these addresses per the above specification, the app should then connect() to them in order, fail/timeout and try the next one Since when is a timeout on the Internet ok? Haven't

Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage

2007-09-21 Thread Sean Donelan
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5148125.html (AUSTIN) Telephone service was out for seven hours in rural Central Texas after bees attacked a construction worker, causing him to jump off his tractor and hit a lever that lowered an auger that sliced a fiber-optic line.

Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage

2007-09-21 Thread Deepak Jain
Sean Donelan wrote: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5148125.html (AUSTIN) Telephone service was out for seven hours in rural Central Texas after bees attacked a construction worker, causing him to jump off his tractor and hit a lever that lowered an auger that sliced a

Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage

2007-09-21 Thread Chris Boyd
On Sep 21, 2007, at 2:38 PM, Deepak Jain wrote: Anytime you talk about rural I'm impressed with 7 hours, however -- isn't SONET supposed to make this better? We had a customer hit by this, and actually saw services restored for a few minutes in just four hours, but then they went back

Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage

2007-09-21 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:38:30 EDT, Deepak Jain said: Anytime you talk about rural I'm impressed with 7 hours, however -- isn't SONET supposed to make this better? I'm not in Texas, but I am rural - there's plenty of places around here where it's just not economically feasible to run 2 diverse

Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage

2007-09-21 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Deepak Jain wrote: Is this a 7 hour outage a comment on rural Central Texas availability of fiber splicers or novel ways fiber gets cut? Anytime you talk about rural I'm impressed with 7 hours, however -- isn't SONET supposed to make this better? Sure, if: 1. the

Long-haul protected services: (was: Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage)

2007-09-21 Thread Deepak Jain
I'm forking this thread to complain about vendor L's international long haul network. Protected Sonet service (T3). DC to UK. I see more outage notifications than you'd *believe* since the service was established for a customer a few weeks ago. Whether its mandatory fiber relocation or some

Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage

2007-09-21 Thread David Lesher
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: Anytime you talk about rural I'm impressed with 7 hours, however -- isn't SONET supposed to make this better? Sure, if: 1. the protect path is configured and enabled 2. both the working and protect paths don't run through

New TransPacific Cable Projects:

2007-09-21 Thread Deepak Jain
This is what happens when I stay late at the office on a Friday. http://www.commsday.com/node/186 - Google participating in a new Transpacific Cable Project http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/121806-verizon-business.html - Verizon on a different transpacific project And all the same

Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage

2007-09-21 Thread Wayne E. Bouchard
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 04:49:22PM -0400, Justin M. Streiner wrote: Anytime you talk about rural I'm impressed with 7 hours, however -- isn't SONET supposed to make this better? Sure, if: 1. the protect path is configured and enabled 2. both the working and protect paths don't run through

Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage

2007-09-21 Thread Deepak Jain
I realize that it's expensive to run these lines but when you put your working and protect in the same cable or different cables in the same trench (not even a trench a few feet apart, but the same trench and same innerduct), you have to EXPECT that you're gonna have angry customers. And yet

Re: New TransPacific Cable Projects:

2007-09-21 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Deepak Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I were a stakeholder in transpacific cables, I'd be leasing up the next 3-6 years of the entire global cable laying fleet. :) The people that have invested in global fiber operate much like a cartel --

Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage

2007-09-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 9/22/07, Wayne E. Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realize that it's expensive to run these lines but when you put your working and protect in the same cable or different cables in the same trench (not even a trench a few feet apart, but the same trench and same innerduct), you have to

RE: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage

2007-09-21 Thread Frank Bulk
There's a difference between folding a ring or pushing out a spoke to feed a few customers and providing connectivity to a town. I think building a SONET ring, or any kind of redundancy, has more to do with a rural telco's commitment to it's customers than the bottom line. Remember, the building

Re: New TransPacific Cable Projects:

2007-09-21 Thread Randy Bush
It would be nice to see some new faces in that game -- maybe it would help leverage the market a bit. great idea! and we can call it Flag! oh. sorry. guess it's old idea. randy

Re: New TransPacific Cable Projects:

2007-09-21 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - : Historically, representatives of these organizations : meet once a year on the golf course in Hawaii to : determine who to sell to. Which course would that be? I'd pay the $200+ to play at the same time... ;-) scott --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]