Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread Tim Franklin
- Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: Personally, I think that enforced UNE is the right model. If you sell higher level services, you should not be allowed to operate the physical plant. The physical plant operating companies should sell access to the physical plant to higher level

Re: AS Numbers from a common 32-bit pool.

2010-12-21 Thread Heinrich Strauss
On 2010/12/21 08:15, Matthew Palmer wrote: That would be why 32-bit ASNs have been requestable for the last couple of years(?); you could have been prodding providers with it doesn't work, fix it for a while now. - Matt Although I realise that, the problem in South Africa is that we

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, December 20, 2010 06:36:03 pm you wrote: Those are all still sub-T1 on the uplink and well below normal CMTS service speeds. Low-end CMTS is around 15Mbps/7Mbps. Yeah, at least with the T-1 you aren't oversubscribed. One company for whom I consult was going to go from their T-1 to

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread Jared Mauch
I faced a similar challenge. If you have line of sight to something, you can do fixed wireless for maybe 200-400 depending on the gear and frequencies involved. Check out the ubnt 365 or m5 gear. Cheap as in disposable. Works quite well. Then order a Comcast business connection there and call

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread Scott Reed
Check out http://www.wispdirectory.com Go to Contact Us and fill out the form. If you are only a mile away from a WISP, there is a chance they will build out to you. On 12/20/2010 6:14 PM, Dorn Hetzel wrote: Where I live, about 50 miles south of Atlanta down I-85, there is no consumer

Re: AS Numbers from a common 32-bit pool.

2010-12-21 Thread Jack Bates
On 12/21/2010 4:57 AM, Heinrich Strauss wrote: Although I realise that, the problem in South Africa is that we essentially still have a Telecoms Monopoly: The local loop belongs to Telkom SA who also competes with ISPs in providing Internet access to clients, so growth in the ISP sector is

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 12/21/10 1:42 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote: Bzzt! It's -not- illegal to put a letter inside a FedEx box. It just has to have the appropriate (USPS) postage on it, _as_well_ as paying the FedEx service/delivery fee. This is true if it is just the letter you're sending, or if it is a sealed

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Dec 21, 2010, at 2:42 AM, Tim Franklin wrote: - Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: Personally, I think that enforced UNE is the right model. If you sell higher level services, you should not be allowed to operate the physical plant. The physical plant operating companies should

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread Owen DeLong
The Comcast proposed business model is simply wrong, and unsustainable without essentially being a protection racket. Pay us more money or your service will be kneecapped We have laws against extortion. We also have laws against warrantless wiretaps. Comcast seeks retroactive

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 12/20/10 9:07 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote: On Dec 20, 2010, at 8:51 01PM, JC Dill wrote: Do you have any cites saying that this was actually rolled out? Or did the project get cut during the financial crisis, and never actually rolled out? The issue I have with all these cites is that none

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread Rettke, Brian
Sincerely, Brian A . Rettke RHCT, CCDP, CCNP, CCIP Network Engineer, CableONE Internet Services -Original Message- From: Lamar Owen [mailto:lo...@pari.edu] Interestingly enough, we've tried to do H.323 with some folks on a CMTS connection, and have yet to succeed in smooth video.

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread Tim Franklin
- Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: Yeah... I'd rather see it done in such a way that there is a prohibition of common ownership or management. Essentially, require that the stock be split and each current owner receives one share in each company with any shareholders who own more than

IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread Frank Bulk
A week or more ago someone posted in NANOG or elsewhere a site that had made a comparison of the IPv6 BGP table sizes of different operators (i.e. HE, Cogent, Sprint, etc), making the point that a full view might take multiple feeds. I think that website also had text files with the comparisons.

Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread Jared Mauch
Maybe this is a good place to start.. http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/compare/ - Jared On Dec 21, 2010, at 11:32 AM, Frank Bulk wrote: A week or more ago someone posted in NANOG or elsewhere a site that had made a comparison of the IPv6 BGP table sizes of different operators (i.e. HE,

Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread Kevin Loch
Jared Mauch wrote: Maybe this is a good place to start.. http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/compare/ - Jared On Dec 21, 2010, at 11:32 AM, Frank Bulk wrote: A week or more ago someone posted in NANOG or elsewhere a site that had made a comparison of the IPv6 BGP table sizes of different

NANOG Server Maintenance - 1700 EST

2010-12-21 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hello Everyone: Merit will be performing maintenance on the server providing for the NANOG mailing list at 5:00 PM EST today. The anticipated downtime is less than 5 minutes. If you have any questions please send let us know at adm...@nanog.org. Regards, Mike On behalf of the NANOG

RE: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread Frank Bulk
Thanks. I think the DFP might be a better fit, but right now it's timing out. Frank -Original Message- From: Jared Mauch [mailto:ja...@puck.nether.net] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 10:39 AM To: frnk...@iname.com Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons Maybe

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread David Sparro
On 12/20/2010 8:51 PM, JC Dill wrote: On 20/12/10 2:15 PM, David Sparro wrote: There is no monopoly. They've already experimented with that and (apparently) decided that it wasn't worth it.

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:47:45PM -0500, David Sparro wrote: I still think that the link shows that the factors are more economic than regulatory. As you point out, even where the regulatory obstacles have been overcome, it is not clear that Verizon ever actually did

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, December 21, 2010 11:26:48 am Rettke, Brian wrote: The problem is probably not the connection speed, but congestion on the CMTS. If the downstream is saturated (too many people watching Netflix on a node) the available shared bandwidth may not be enough to support your real-time

RE: COX NOC Contact Number

2010-12-21 Thread Luiz Rosas
Does anyone have COX NOC contact number?? Thx Luiz Rosas IP Network Engineer Astound/Wave Broadband San Francisco, CA 94124 415-349-2940 Office 650-642-4638 Mobile

Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread Bryan Fields
On 12/21/2010 11:32, Frank Bulk wrote: A week or more ago someone posted in NANOG or elsewhere a site that had made a comparison of the IPv6 BGP table sizes of different operators (i.e. HE, Cogent, Sprint, etc), making the point that a full view might take multiple feeds. I think that website

Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread Scott Morris
Size doesn't matter. It's how well you use it. Route it, baby... ;) On 12/21/10 1:56 PM, Bryan Fields wrote: On 12/21/2010 11:32, Frank Bulk wrote: A week or more ago someone posted in NANOG or elsewhere a site that had made a comparison of the IPv6 BGP table sizes of different

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:42:09AM -0600, Robert Bonomi wrote: From: Leo Bicknell bickn...@ufp.org So if it's illegal for you to put a letter inside a FedEx box, Bzzt! It's -not- illegal to put a letter inside a FedEx box. It just has to have the appropriate (USPS) postage on it,

Re: TCP congestion control and large router buffers

2010-12-21 Thread Sam Stickland
On 21 Dec 2010, at 07:18, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Jim Gettys wrote: Common knowledge among whom? I'm hardly a naive Internet user. Anyone actually looking into the matter. The Cisco fair-queue command was introduced in IOS 11.0 according to

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread Rettke, Brian
--Congestion == oversubscribed. I would love to see a public posting or notice or something on my ISP's website showing current flows and congestion (the Cacti driven Network Weathermap is one such tool I've seen networks use; one of my providers used to have one publicly available, and it was

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread George Bonser
Obviously, this probably won't happen. The Telcos in the US have far too powerful a lobbying force, but, I think that would be the best thing for the consumers. Presumably for both the consumers *and* every company involved in network services who doesn't have the luck of a historical

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread Pete Carah
On 12/20/2010 06:36 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: snip I'm happy for you. The ATT cable plant in my neighborhood is unable to sustain any better than 1.5mbps/384k on ADSL. And mine (older Baltimore-area, ex-bell atlantic, now verizon) won't sustain 384x384 at 15k ft, it works with about 10% packet

Re: TCP congestion control and large router buffers

2010-12-21 Thread Fred Baker
On Dec 20, 2010, at 11:18 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Jim Gettys wrote: Common knowledge among whom? I'm hardly a naive Internet user. Anyone actually looking into the matter. The Cisco fair-queue command was introduced in IOS 11.0 according to

RE: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread Frank Bulk
There are 4,035 routes in the global IPv6 routing table. This is what one provider passed on to me for routes (/48 or larger prefixes), extracted from public route-view servers. ATT AS7018: 2,851 (70.7%) Cogent AS174: 2,864 (71.0%) GLBX AS3549: 3,706 (91.8%)

Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread Jared Mauch
Not sure what route-server you are speaking of, but a quick peek at what we send on a customer session I see: NTT (2914) sends 3868 prefixes. If the route server contacts me in private, we can likely set up a view from 2914 or 2914-customer perspective. - Jared On Dec 21, 2010, at 5:18 PM,

RE: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread Frank Bulk
The provider who gave me the information didn't tell me what public route server they used. They didn't analyze all ASNs, just the handful I listed. It would be interesting if someone set up a daily report that documented all the IPv6 routes an ASN carried, and then tracked both the absolute

RE: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Here's what I see: Level 3: 2949 HE: 3775 NTT: 3867 Init7: 3665 Mike -- Michael K. Smith - CISSP, GSEC, GISP Chief Technical Officer - Adhost Internet LLC mksm...@adhost.com w: +1 (206) 404-9500 f: +1 (206) 404-9050 PGP: B49A DDF5 8611 27F3 08B9 84BB E61E 38C0 (Key ID: 0x9A96777D)

Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 12/21/2010 5:18 PM, Frank Bulk wrote: There are 4,035 routes in the global IPv6 routing table. This is what one provider passed on to me for routes (/48 or larger prefixes), extracted from public route-view servers. ATT AS7018: 2,851 (70.7%) Cogent AS174: 2,864 (71.0%)

Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 12/21/2010 7:10 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: On 12/21/2010 5:18 PM, Frank Bulk wrote: There are 4,035 routes in the global IPv6 routing table. This is what one provider passed on to me for routes (/48 or larger prefixes), extracted from public route-view servers. ATT AS7018: 2,851 (70.7%)

Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 12/21/2010 14:18, Frank Bulk wrote: There are 4,035 routes in the global IPv6 routing table. This is what one provider passed on to me for routes (/48 or larger prefixes), extracted from public route-view servers. ATT AS7018: 2,851 (70.7%) Cogent AS174: 2,864 (71.0%)

[OT]: WCCPv2 and gige?

2010-12-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi all, I have a customer who is looking for examples of WCCPv2 deployments for traffic levels 3 gige (and above, up to 10ge.) Now I know that theoretically there's no reason why this shouldn't be the case, but as I don't have a lab of 10GE capable Cisco L3 devices, I'm unable to verify that

Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread ML
On 12/21/2010 7:10 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: On 12/21/2010 5:18 PM, Frank Bulk wrote: There are 4,035 routes in the global IPv6 routing table. This is what one provider passed on to me for routes (/48 or larger prefixes), extracted from public route-view servers. ATT AS7018: 2,851 (70.7%)

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread ML
On 12/21/2010 10:49 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: Obviously, this probably won't happen. The Telcos in the US have far too powerful a lobbying force snip Owen Sad that we can admit this fact so freely.

Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
On Dec 21, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: On 12/21/2010 14:18, Frank Bulk wrote: There are 4,035 routes in the global IPv6 routing table. This is what one provider passed on to me for routes (/48 or larger prefixes), extracted from public route-view servers. ATT AS7018: 2,851

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread Bryan Fields
On 12/21/2010 10:19, William Allen Simpson wrote: The lesson here is that we need to decided what it is we are offering. As an ISP, we never offered different rates by distance or for different types of traffic. We did offer different rates for different sized pipes (aka volume). That is, we

RE: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
Looks like AS13722 (Default Route, Inc), is advertising both 2607:ff08:cafe::/48 and 2607:ff08::/32. Frank -Original Message- From: Mike Tancsa [mailto:m...@sentex.net] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 6:19 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons On 12/21/2010

Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread Jeff Wheeler
I could not find this information on any Wikis, but this is the sort of thing that would be nice to be able to find out without posting on the list or asking around (obviously.) I have quickly made a couple of entries with simple enough formatting that anyone can go onto Wikipedia, click Edit,

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread mikea
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 06:41:09PM -0800, Seth Mattinen wrote: Contrary to popular belief the average person tend to severely dislike all forms of road construction or having their yard repeatedly torn up. I know it's all happy fun times to say let's have 10 water/electrical providers and

RE: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread Randy Epstein
HE routes missing on Cogents side? I would guess HE routes missing at Cogent and Cogent routes missing at HE. Remember the cake? http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Hurricane-Cake .jpg Or was that rectified? Mahtan? Randy

Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 14:01 21/12/2010 -0500, Scott Morris wrote: Actually it depends on the # of route injects and withdrawls. Sorry, couldn't help myself. -Hank Size doesn't matter. It's how well you use it. Route it, baby... ;) On 12/21/10 1:56 PM, Bryan Fields wrote: On 12/21/2010 11:32,

Holiday Songs

2010-12-21 Thread Paul WALL
An old classic, but maybe it will help put everyone in the holiday spirit. The Twelve Days of NYIIX On the first day of Christmas, NYIIX gave to me, A BPDU from someone's spanning tree. On the second day of Christmas, NYIIX gave to me, Two forwarding

Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread Pekka Savola
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, Jeff Wheeler wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_IPv6_support_by_major_transit_providers 'Maximum Prefix Length' may be an over-simplifying metric. FWIW, we're certainly not a major transit provider, but we do allow /48 in the designated PI ranges but not