Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Bob Snyder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since QoS works by degrading the quality of service for some streams of packets in a congestion scenario and since congestion scenarios are most common on end customer links, it makes sense to let the end customers fiddle with the QoS settings in both directions on

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Bob Snyder
Daniel Senie wrote: Actually, the cable providers have an alternative. Since the cable network really is broadband in the meaning from before it was coopted to mean high speed, cable operators are able to utilize many channels in parallel. If they want their voice traffic to be unimpeded,

Re: Replacing PSTN with VoIP wise? Was Re: Phone networks struggle in Hurricane Katrina's wake

2005-09-02 Thread Bob Snyder
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:41:40AM -0700, jc dill wrote: It is sometimes the case in disasters that people from inside can call out but that people from outside can't call in because the circuits into the disaster area become overloaded. This would hold true especially in the case where

Re: Halo 2 and broadband traffic

2004-12-08 Thread Bob Snyder
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 02:46:46PM +, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: Has anyone actually noticed any increases in residential broadband traffic due to Halo 2? This is lost in the noise of P2P traffic, which is the big bandwidth eater by far. I note that the story is essentially based

Re: Can a Customer take their IP's with them? (Court says yes!)

2004-06-29 Thread Bob Snyder
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 12:47:42AM -0400, Patrick W Gilmore wrote: On Jun 29, 2004, at 12:44 AM, Patrick W Gilmore wrote: Of course, if you just happen to uphold INTERNET STANDARDS and only accept routes from where they should originate, I'll buy you a drink at the next NANOG for being

Re: The use of .0/.255 addresses.

2004-06-28 Thread Bob Snyder
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 11:41:50AM -0700, Tony Hain wrote: While it is often great sport to poke at MS, did you consider that this might have nothing to do with classfullness or CIDR? I believe you will find that 0 -1 are invalid for whatever netmask the windows stack is given. You So

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Bob Snyder
netadm wrote: http://www.serverpronto.com Given the thread was started for people who want to get a server for mail clear of blocklists, why would I want to use a provider on a number of blocklists per http://www.openrbl.org/, including a SBL/ROKSO listing? Bob

Re: wholesalebandwidth.com major sponsor of spammers refuses to accept email at abuse

2004-03-12 Thread Bob Snyder
German Valdez wrote: In that case you would be blocking all the networks in 29 economies in Latin american and caribbean region. The people doing this generally know this. They often also block big chunks of APNIC too. They often believe that the ratio of legitimate mail to spam coming from

Re: Strange public traceroutes return private RFC1918 addresses

2004-02-03 Thread Bob Snyder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If RFC1918 addresses are used only on interfaces with jumbo MTUs on the order of 9000 bytes then it doesn't break PMTUD in a 1500 byte Ethernet world. And it doesn't break traceroute. We just lose the DNS hint about the router location. I'm confused about your

Re: Strange public traceroutes return private RFC1918 addresses

2004-02-02 Thread Bob Snyder
Matthew Crocker wrote: Search the archives, Comcast and other cable/DSL providers use the 10/8 for their infrastructure. The Internet itself doesn't need to be Internet routable. Only the edges need to be routable. It is common practice to use RFC1918 address space inside the network.

Re: Verizon mail troubles

2004-01-28 Thread Bob Snyder
Andy Dills wrote: Getting Verizon to do anything involving the internet, even if you possess the phone number of the department to call, is impossible. They do a good job with circuits. They do an abysmal job with IP and related issues. This must be a different Verizon than I dealt with at a

Re: Verizon mail troubles

2004-01-28 Thread Bob Snyder
Andy Dills wrote: Verizon? Colo? ISP? Probably should have expressed that more clearly. Not colo'ing at Verizon, but an Internet colocation facility that also provides it's customers with T1 and Frame Relay connectivity to the Internet. But they've never had a sonet outage once in our