I learned the hard way years ago
Find ONE and use ONE
too many cooks crash the network
On 6/1/2017 8:41 PM, Sterling Jacobson wrote:
Dennis and I did initial design and setup.
It's documented and represented somewhat in The Dude.
But needs some cleanup of course.
Was just hoping IPArchitechs would be quick to identify and remedy what should
be simple issues like this.
I've got them responding now, so I'll see how it goes next week on fixes and
implementation.
I like Dennis, was trying another company for comparison.
-----Original Message-----
From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Faisal Imtiaz
Sent: Thursday, June 1, 2017 7:10 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] IP Architects
Who did the original setup ? Were multiple people involved over time with the
current setup ?
Sounds like your currently have a layered configuration without the
possibility of best practices applied to each layer, thus resulting in this
issue.
Is the network well documented ? If not then it can be a quiet a ball of wax
to deal with.
If you have inhouse folks and just need help with identifying the cause of the
issue, I may be able to help.
If you are looking for a turnkey solution / fix clean up then it will be best
suited for one the consultants .
Regards.
Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet & Telecom
7266 SW 48 Street
Miami, FL 33155
Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232
Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling Jacobson" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, June 1, 2017 4:45:23 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] IP Architects
It is a routing problem, probably a BGP change outside of us.
But I have internal BGP and several /24 subnets that I don't want to
route around the internet and back to myself, just to hop directly
between my two Mikrotik BGP instances.
That seems to be the major hangup right now.
I have a single static entry to route a specific block from one
Mikrotik to the other, but need a more general policy BGP related that
gets automatically filtered down to my OSPF network and MPLS to keep
all of my own inter-subnet communications internal instead of trying
to roam all over creation and back to myself.
-----Original Message-----
From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Faisal Imtiaz
Sent: Thursday, June 1, 2017 12:02 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] IP Architects
on-list of off-list
Care to share what is the problem you are trying or needing to solve ?
Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet & Telecom
7266 SW 48 Street
Miami, FL 33155
Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232
Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling Jacobson" <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 1, 2017 11:53:32 AM
Subject: [AFMUG] IP Architects
So far, not so good with them.
I've spent about $340 for an hour and a half time to have them modify
one temporary route rule in fifteen seconds.
Rest of the time appeared to be them attempting to figure things out
on BGP/eBGP and OSPF.
That didn't fix my problem, just a patch to get some traffic
re-routed, but left me with a bunch of other problems.
When I asked them about the charge, they wouldn't work with me.
I expect a lot more out of a team that charges top dollar for being
the top experts.
I'm having problems communicating and scheduling time now to get that
permanently fixed.
It appears they want to create an entire lab with separate equipment,
spending hours of my money, to understand the problem.
So, yeah, not what I was expecting out of them at all.
