Re: The US government has betrayed the Internet. We need to take it back

2013-09-06 Thread Mark Gauvin
This has been known for years so why the sudden list spam

Calea in Canada goes into full force jan 1 2014 and yes it was meant to stop 
pedo bears but it is much farther reaching


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On 2013-09-06, at 5:33 PM, Scott Weeks sur...@mauigateway.com wrote:

 
 
 --- s...@circlenet.us wrote:
 From: Sam Moats s...@circlenet.us
 
 There only options are to:
 
 Disobey the law, unacceptable in my opinion
 
 Close down services, noble but I need to eat and you probably want to 
 keep getting email
 
 Compromise your principles and obey the law, the path often choosen.
 
 
 
 So, there's no choice except to get a 5-gallon bucket of gov't-ky
 jelly and take it?  So many things come to mind on your flag-waving
 emails, I can't think of what to say first.  And believe me, that's
 not usual...  ;-)  After a while, you'll become raw and probably
 change your mind.
 
 scott
 



Re: will ISP peer with 2 local WAN routers?

2013-08-29 Thread Mark Gauvin
Offer to provide a /29 out of your own arin assigned block works wonders

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On 2013-08-29, at 7:40 PM, Joe Maimon jmai...@ttec.com wrote:

 
 
 Adam Greene wrote:
 Hi guys,
 
 
 
 I have a customer who peers via eBGP with Lightpath aka Cablevision (AS
 6128) and Level3 (AS 3356) and wants to do some dual-WAN router redundancy.
 
 I am not optimistic for your odds in having 6128 do anything other than 
 /30 for you.
 
 (Though even then you still have options, up to and including eem IP 
 takeover)
 
 
 
 I have heard that carriers will sometimes agree to set up a /29 WAN subnet
 for a customer and peer with (2) customer routers.
 
 Carriers who do that and more are my favorites.
 
 



Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads

2013-07-26 Thread Mark Gauvin
Lol yet we can't use the side cutters cause we all report to the corporate 
overlords

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On 2013-07-26, at 8:18 PM, Jon Lewis jle...@lewis.org wrote:

 On Fri, 26 Jul 2013, Larry Stites wrote:
 
 NANOG : network operators are precisely those who directly assisted in 
 creating the 'magic lamp' and the cork which held the marketing Jeanie 
 inside. The same operators who took the cork out and rubbed the 'magic 
 lamp'... The Jeanie is now out of the bottle and you all are complaining 
 about it, all the while creating new magic, more lamps and more 
 Jeanie's... Go figure. NANOG complaining about being harassed by the 
 marketing technologies it has created...
 
 We're also the people at the controls, and the people holding the wire 
 cutters (physical and virtual), so we're not a good demographic to piss 
 off.
 
 --
  Jon Lewis, MCP :)   |  I route
  |  therefore you are
 _ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_
 



Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads

2013-07-25 Thread Mark Gauvin
Welcome to nanog aka the cold call jungle

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On 2013-07-25, at 6:31 PM, Otis L. Surratt, Jr. o...@ocosa.com wrote:

 -Original Message-
 From: Warren Bailey [mailto:wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com] 
 Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 6:20 PM
 To: Justin Vocke; nanog@nanog.org
 Subject: RE: ARIN WHOIS for leads
 
 Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of maintaining the whois?
 
 Yep!
 
 We registered a few domains and get the same thing, I think it's
 something that people are going to have to live with. :/
 
 I agree. We just politely tell them we are not interested and move on
 about our day. Some cold callers we have taken up on offers. It just
 depends who calls and whether or not we are looking for new service.
 WHOIS Privacy is nice for the domains and we use for some of our domains
 but not all. We just hate when customers get those scam notices and call
 us or open tickets about it.
 
 Otis
 
  Original message 
 From: Justin Vocke justin.vo...@gmail.com
 Date: 07/25/2013 4:04 PM (GMT-08:00)
 To: nanog@nanog.org
 Subject: ARIN WHOIS for leads
 
 
 Sent this little e-mail to ARIN:
 
 I'm not sure that you guys can do anything about this, but it's worth
 looking into. I registered AS626XX a week ago, and since it's
 registration, I've been getting calls from wholesale carriers trying
 to get me to purchase IP transit from them. Someone is obviously using
 your database of contact information to generate sales leads.
 
 512-377-6827 was one of the numbers trying to get more information about
 my network and how they could help me.
 
 My guess is someone is using your mass whois database, looking at the
 most recently issued/created AS numbers, and cold calling.
 
 Just thought I'd pass this along.
 -
 
 Due to the amount of calls I've received, I'm guessing its probably a
 good idea to remove my contact info from the registration and setup
 role's instead.
 
 Does this sorta thing happen frequently with new registrations or did I
 just draw the short straw?
 
 Best,
 Justin
 



Re: Prism continued

2013-06-15 Thread Mark Gauvin
Only victim in all of this is the poor NSA contractor who had to sift thru my 
browser history

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On 2013-06-15, at 4:24 PM, Matthew Petach mpet...@netflight.com wrote:

 On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Jon Lewis jle...@lewis.org wrote:
 
 On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 goe...@anime.net wrote:
 
 cellphones with cameras are probably better for the purposes of covert
 mass surveillance, especially ones with front facing cameras. far more of
 them out there, and wireless to boot.
 
 suprised everyone gets their panties in a bunch over presumed games
 console monitoring, what about all your iphones already out there?
 
 My iPhone lives in a holster that covers both cameras when not in use or
 charging.  Do you throw a sheet over your gaming console when you're not
 using it?
 
 You'd be amazed at how many hours of footage
 the government has of the inside of my pants
 pockets...
 
 :D
 
 Matt



Re: Data Center Installations

2013-05-01 Thread Mark Gauvin
Zip ties have no reason to be in a dc grr 

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On 2013-05-01, at 6:57 PM, Mike Lyon mike.l...@gmail.com wrote:

 Is hard to beat Monoprice :)
 
 But no, I have purchased velcro in bulk from ULine (not the kind for
 wrapping cable though) and found it to be cheaper and I usually got it the
 next day for not that much shipping.
 
 -Mike
 
 
 
 On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Michael Loftis mlof...@wgops.com wrote:
 
 On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Mike Lyon mike.l...@gmail.com wrote:
 For bulk velcro, I found Uline to be fairly cheap.
 
 I have to ask, is this an April fools joke?  ULine isn't cheap for
 anything.  Monoprice, $13, around $25 delivered depending on where
 you're at and how yu ship it, for 5x black hook and loop 5yd per
 roll... vs. ULine $28 (1x black hook and loop 75') and probably about
 same SH.  No easy way to get them to quote SH but last time I
 ordered from them (they're about the only place to get some stuff)
 ULine is over 2x as much.  Oh and Monoprice has it in quite a few
 colors if you don't care for black.  If you're going for pre-made
 cable wrap type stuff it's a bit more, but still half or less than
 ULine.
 
 ULine is definitely a supplier of last resort, but they've got a lot
 of different stuff.
 
 
 
 
 -- 
 Mike Lyon
 408-621-4826
 mike.l...@gmail.com
 
 http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlyon



Re: authority to route?

2012-11-14 Thread Mark Gauvin
Careful though cause the crayons must be crayola approved

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On 2012-11-14, at 5:28 PM, joel jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote:

 On 11/14/12 2:40 PM, Joe Abley wrote:
 On 2012-11-12, at 14:43, Jim Mercer j...@reptiles.org wrote:
 
 Is there a common practice of providers to vet / validate requests to 
 advertise
 blocks?
 Yes, most providers whose customers request a particular route to be pointed 
 towards them will ask for ambiguous instructions, written on letterhead with 
 crayon, and signed illegibly by someone who may or may not have authority to 
 do so but who in any case cannot be identified clearly by their scrawl.
 Some providers ask for route objects and appropriate import/export 
 policy in RADB. that fandamently no higher quality an attestation than a 
 LOA but it's a lot easier to read.
 Ideally the letterhead should be crudely constructed in photoshop and then 
 faxed across a noisy analogue line.
 
 Once you have one of those babies in your file, no lawyer can touch you.
 
 
 Joe
 
 
 
 
 



Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-10-02 Thread Mark Gauvin
Just be happy they didn't ask for power point

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On 2012-10-02, at 5:03 PM, William F. Maton Sotomayor wma...@ottix.net 
wrote:

 On Tue, 2 Oct 2012, Michael Hallgren wrote:
 
 Le mardi 02 octobre 2012 à 23:25 +0200, Dan Luedtke a écrit :
 On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 19:31 +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
 Here's a visio diagram you can send them:
 
 http://www.foobar.org/~nick/bgp-network-diagram.vsd
 
 Is there a .png version of it somewhere?
 The whole thread made my day, I'm eager to see this diagram as well.
 I don't have this MS Visio thingy you all use to set up your Avian
 Carrier BGP sessions...
 
 Don't use ``MS Visio thingy'', prefer TeX with metapost, PGF/TikZ (or
 PSTRicks). The output is by far more beautiful, and maintaining the
 document much more slim.
 
 I still miss doing this stuff using gpic/groff. ;-)
 
 wfms


Re: Cisco 7206 IOS for PPPoE Termination

2012-09-23 Thread Mark Gauvin
You are joking I hope 

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On 2012-09-23, at 3:38 PM, Shahab Vahabzadeh sh.vahabza...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear Paul,
 Thanks for you reply, May I have those optimization knobs for
 virtual-template and throttles?
 Maybe looking into your configurations help me in this field.
 I will look for the service  provider image too.
 Thanks
 
 On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:17 PM, PC paul4...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 For this application, you may wish to consider the service provider images.
 
 The latest 15.x(S) image works, as it is the derivative of what was
 formerly the service-provider oriented 12.2(SRx) images.
 
 However, it's unlikely to drop steady state CPU, but it may contain some
 optimizations for concurrent PPP (re)negotiations on the G2 platform during
 session recovery.
 
 PPPoE will generally handle more users on ethernet as it is easier to push
 packets on when not dealing with the ATM encapsulations, but to what extent
 this holds true on the 7200, I can't tell you for sure.
 
 I'd also read the broadband aggregation guide under the IOS documentation
 on cisco.com, and tune all the knobs that may help you, there are some
 pointers on what items on virtual-templates are punitive in performance,
 other optional items such as disabling SNMP counters on virtual access
 interfaces to reduce cpu usage, and other items that may help little by
 little.  There are also various knobs to throttle PPPoE renegotiation rates
 during recovery.
 
 I wish you luck (and consider getting another and/or bigger router to
 split the load).
 
 On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Shahab Vahabzadeh 
 sh.vahabza...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Which software you used before for them?
 
 On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Rinse Kloek rinse.kl...@isp.solcon.nl
 wrote:
 
 6000 PPP users on a NPE-G2 is way too much imho. Currently we do no more
 than 3000 users on a NPE-G2 with PPPoA. (Max cpu 50%).
 5 years ago, we did about 5000 users on a NPE-G2, but as traffic ratio's
 grow each year the maximum users a NPE-G2 can handle will drop each
 year.
 Don't forget an NPE-G2 is a software based plaform, so traffic
 forwarding
 is done in software CPU.
 
 regards,
 Rinse Kloek
 Op 23-9-2012 20:51, Shahab Vahabzadeh schreef:
 
 Hello everybody,
 I am using C7206 VXR NPE-G2 routers as BRAS in my network and the
 current
 IOS is *c7200p-adventerprisek9-mz.**124-24.T.bin* on them.
 
 
 Also their memory upgraded to 2GB instead of 1GB.
 And I have near 6500 online user on each of my BRAS and there is no
 speciefic feature except aaa with radius and ordinary features.
 There router is also terminating dot1q too because my PSTN centers
 traffic
 comes through dot1q vlans to BRAS es.
 I think I have some problem with current IOS, My CPU Usage is abnormal
 and
 Its near %70 or %80.
 And when I have a network problem and some of PSTN centers goes down
 CPU
 go
 to %99 and it gets problem to recovery.
 Do you know any good IOS for me as a service provider to use?
 I heard that some service providers have near 8000 online user on 7206.
 Thanks
 
 
 
 
 --
 Regards,
 Shahab Vahabzadeh, Network Engineer and System Administrator
 
 Cell Phone: +1 (415) 871 0742
 PGP Key Fingerprint = 8E34 B335 D702 0CA7 5A81  C2EE 76A2 46C2 5367 BF90
 
 
 
 
 
 -- 
 Regards,
 Shahab Vahabzadeh, Network Engineer and System Administrator
 
 Cell Phone: +1 (415) 871 0742
 PGP Key Fingerprint = 8E34 B335 D702 0CA7 5A81  C2EE 76A2 46C2 5367 BF90



Re: Heads-Up: GoDaddy Broke the Interwebs...

2012-09-11 Thread Mark Gauvin
And this is bad why?

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On 2012-09-11, at 1:14 PM, Jason Bertoch jason_bert...@nwrdc.fsu.edu wrote:

 Now it's CNN
 
 /Jason
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Kyle Creyts [mailto:kyle.cre...@gmail.com] 
 Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 1:55 PM
 To: Operations Dallas
 Cc: nanog@nanog.org
 Subject: Re: Heads-Up: GoDaddy Broke the Interwebs...
 
 No DDoS or Anonymous attack appears to have been involved.
 
 On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Kyle Creyts kyle.cre...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_item_id=410
 
 On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Operations Dallas 
 operations.tcdal...@hotmail.com wrote:
 I thought I saw an article on routergod.com from Dance Patrick
 regarding anycast DNS..
 ~oliver
 
 Sent via DynaTAC. Please forgive spelling and grammar.
 
 -Original Message-
 From: bill.ing...@t-systems.com
 Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:13:27
 To: aa...@heyaaron.com; nanog@nanog.org
 Subject: RE: Heads-Up: GoDaddy Broke the Interwebs...
 
 
 Looks like this may be a DDoS attack from Anonymous:
 
 http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/godaddy-outage-takes-down-millions-o
 f-sites/
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Aaron C. de Bruyn [mailto:aa...@heyaaron.com]
 Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 1:07 PM
 To: NANOG mailing list
 Subject: Heads-Up: GoDaddy Broke the Interwebs...
 
 For the last ~15 minutes I've been receiving complaints about DNS
 issues.  GoDaddy DNS is apparently b0rked.  I'm also seeing a lot of
 tweets about their hosting and VPS being down.  I'm unable to access the
 control panel for one of my customer accounts.
 
 
 -A
 
 
 
 
 --
 Kyle Creyts
 
 Information Assurance Professional
 BSidesDetroit Organizer
 
 
 
 --
 Kyle Creyts
 
 Information Assurance Professional
 BSidesDetroit Organizer
 
 



Re: Update from the NANOG Communications Committee regarding recent off-topic posts

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Gauvin
On list spam has been minimal but off list cold call type emails have  
been mounting for several months

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On 2012-07-30, at 5:29 PM, Brian Dickson brian.peter.dick...@gmail.com 
  wrote:


 As a quick update, we've implemented some list settings last week  
 to help
 to

 keep spam off the list.  New subscribers are moderated until we're
 comfortable
 with their posts.  We rejected the idea of keyword based message  
 filtering
 since not only is a lot of work to maintain, it's trivial to get  
 around it
 if
 you really want to post banned words.
 Comments and suggestions are welcome.
 Matt Griswold, on behalf of the NANOG Communications Committee

 I've always liked the idea found in xkcd.com/810 ;-).

 Brian



RE: Rate shaping in Active E FTTx networks

2012-07-26 Thread Mark Gauvin
Juniper dynamic application awareness does a decent job and so does the cisco 
counterpart

saves buying more hw

From: Erik Muller [er...@buh.org]
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:21 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Rate shaping in Active E FTTx networks

On 7/26/12 12:45 , Jason Lixfeld wrote:
 Hi all,

 I'm trying to gauge what operators are doing to handle per-subscriber
  Internet access PIR bandwidth in Active E FTTx networks.

 I presume operators would want to limit the each subscriber to a
 certain  PIR, but within that limit, do things like perform preferential
  treatment of interactive services like steaming video or Skype, etc.,
  ahead of non-interactive services like FTP.

 My impression is that a subscriber's physical access in these networks
 is  exponentially larger than their allocated amount of Internet access.
  This would leave ample room on the physical access access for other
  services like Voice and IPTV that might run on separate VLANs than the
  Internet access VLAN. That said, I doubt there's really that much of a
  concern about allocating PIR on these other service VLANs.

 So in terms of PIR for Internet access, is there some magic box that
 sits  between the various subscriber aggregation points and the core,
  which takes care of shaping the subscriber's Internet access PIR, while
  making sure that the any preferential treatment of interactive services
  is performed.

 Is that a lot to ask for one box? The ridiculously deep buffers
 required  in order to shape to PIR vs. police to it (because policing to
  a PIR is just plain ugly) and the requirements to perform any sort of
  preferential packet treatment above and beyond that seem like quite a
  lot to ask of one box. Am I wrong?

 Who might make a box like this, if it exists? And if not, what are
 folks  using the achieve these results?

 Thanks in advance for any insights..

I've seen a few deployments using Packeteer's (now BlueCoat) PacketShaper
for this purpose; the only downside I've heard with that platform is cost.
  Sandvine and Fortinet are a couple other options that have different
approaches, but have a lot of this functionality rolled in alongside their
broader security services.

-e





RE: airFiber (text of the 8 minute video)

2012-03-30 Thread Mark Gauvin
that statement posted a few days ago saying that the former Motorola Canopy 
team designed this product turned me off right away

From: Greg Ihnen [os10ru...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 6:36 PM
To: Dylan Bouterse
Cc: 'nanog@nanog.org'
Subject: Re: airFiber (text of the 8 minute video)

On Mar 30, 2012, at 6:01 PM, Dylan Bouterse wrote:

 A couple of thoughts. First, it's not fair to compare 24GHz to 2.4 or even 
 5Gig range due to the wave length. You will get 2.4GHz bleed through walls, 
 windows, etc. VERY close to a 5GHz transmitter you may get some bleed through 
 walls but not reliably. 24GHz will not propagate through objects as it's 
 millimeter wavelength. That coupled with the fact it is a directional PTP 
 product, you will be able to get a good amount of density of 24GHz PTP links 
 using the same frequency in a small area (downtown for instance).

The comparison isn't on wavelength, it's on the unlicensed-ness of it. Think CB 
vs Ham Radio. Where 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz are congested people have no where to go 
but up. You may not be alone up there. Guys already running 24GHz links might 
look at the sudden availability of cheap 24GHz gear in a different light.

Granted there's many things in AirFiber's favor regarding congestion being less 
of a problem. The short range and high directivity, high cost, etc, but 
remember this isn't the only 24GHz product out there. In the kind of places 
where one of these links might be needed, others might have the same need.

If you're thinking about the implications of possible congestion/interference 
when you're thinking about a link between the main office and the warehouse at 
a plant to give the guys in the warehouse internet that's not mission critical 
that's one thing. If it's key infrastructure for your ISP business then things 
start to look different. The licensed links start looking better regarding 
reliability down the road because you have a protected frequency. For ISPs out 
in farm country this is less of an issue, but in the more urban areas it is a 
concern. You start getting interference to your backhaul and you've got serious 
issues. You possibly have downgraded service or no service at many towers 
involving lots of customers.


 Another point, the GPS on the airFiber will also allow for frequency reuse to 
 a point. I would like to see smaller channel sizes though. I hear it will be 
 a software upgrade down the road. I'm shocked the old Canopy guys didn't code 
 that into the first release to be honest.

The GPS/reuse thing is for transmitters that are synced, that is transmitters 
belonging to the same system. Someone else's system won't be synced with yours 
and you won't see that benefit. So if you're thinking that's going to help 
between competitors it won't.

Greg


 Dylan

 -Original Message-
 From: Owen DeLong [mailto:o...@delong.com]
 Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 7:18 PM
 To: Oliver Garraux
 Cc: NANOG list
 Subject: Re: airFiber (text of the 8 minute video)


 On Mar 29, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Oliver Garraux wrote:

 Also keep in mind this is unlicensed gear (think unprotected airspace). 
 Nothing stops everyone else in town from throwing one up and soon you're 
 drowning in a high noise floor and it goes slow or doesn't work at all. 
 Like what's happened to 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz in a lot of places. There's few 
 urban or semi-urban places where you still can use those frequencies for 
 backhaul. The reason why people pay the big bucks for licenses and gear for 
 licensed  frequencies is you're buying insurance it's going to work in the 
 future.

 Greg

 I was at Ubiquiti's conference.  I don't disagree with what you're
 saying.  Ubiquiti's take on it seemed to be that 24 Ghz would likely
 never be used to the extent that 2.4 / 5.8 is.  They are seeing 24 Ghz
 as only for backhaul - no connections to end users.  I guess
 point-to-multipoint connections aren't permitted by the FCC for 24
 Ghz.  AirFiber appears to be fairly highly directional.  It needs to
 be though, as each link uses 100 Mhz, and there's only 250 Mhz
 available @ 24 Ghz.

 It also sounded like there was a decent possibility of supporting
 licensed 21 / 25 Ghz spectrum with AirFiber in the future.

 Oliver

 I don't think it's an FCC issue so much as 24Ghz has so much fade tendency 
 with atmospheric moisture that an omnidirectional antenna is about as 
 effective as a resistor coupled to ground (i.e. dummy load).

 The only way you can get a signal to go any real distance at that frequency 
 is to use a highly directional high-gain antenna at both ends.

 Owen









Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread Mark Gauvin
Peering is generally for a comercial endevor to my understandind fios  
is a residential service so which are you trying to accomplish

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On 2012-03-13, at 7:32 PM, Christopher Morrow  
morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Faisal Imtiaz  
 fai...@snappydsl.net wrote:
 So I have to ask you the big question...

 Why do you want to do BGP with Comcast or Verizon ? (Over FIOS or  
 Cable ?)

 Is the intent to Peer with their network ? (which they will  
 rightfully only
 allow on bigger fatter connections)..

 'peer' has many connotations, I think most of the cases of it over
 FIOS are just: I want bgp so I can announce my prefixes, and see
 yours/default/etc (which leads to 'multihoming' and other normal (for
 businesses) activities on the Internet.


 or
 Are you trying to delivery your IP's to a End Customer behind that  
 FIOS /
 Cable Connection ? ...
 (there a ways to accomplish this without needing their cooperation..)

 or you are multihomed
 or you want some semblence of 'the internet is down' so other bits of
 your infrastructure can take over
 or you want ... a thousand other things.




Re: NANOG Operational TTL Alert for 160-bit Headers (aka IPv4)

2012-03-03 Thread Mark Gauvin
Someone has been drinking the bong water

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On 2012-03-03, at 5:03 PM, Guru NANOG nanog.g...@gmail.com wrote:

 Common Misconception - IPv4 is Out of Address Space

 NANOG Operational TTL Alert for 160-bit Headers (aka IPv4)

 The 8-bit TTL field is reduced to 4-bits plus two 11 bits stuck at 1
 for a long time

 The new 8-bit fields are: SD11

 Packets without the 11 will enter Deep Packet Inspection processing  
 (slow)

 SD are new Source and Destination Address bits set via the generic
  128-bit records

 4+8+12+30+6 = 60 + 68 = 128

 VRHL+111.T1.000+Port12+30+Frag6

 T1 sets the TTL bits - Use T0 at your own risk - VRHL=0101=5

 NANOG.GURU.☺



Re: Canadian ops working under a U.S. TN visa

2012-02-16 Thread Mark Gauvin
Had 4 HD,s held for a week

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On 2012-02-16, at 7:59 PM, John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote:

 I am in the last-moment phase of moving from Canada to the U.S.  
 for a
 one-year contract. Tomorrow I will be crossing at the Peace Bridge  
 at
 Niagara to apply for my TN visa.

 And here I thought it was just West Virginia and Alabama that  
 required their
 own separate visas for furriners. ;)

 Watch out or I'll tell you about the time I was busted at the  
 Rainbow Bridge for
 undeclared photo albums.

 R's,
 John




Re: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Mark Gauvin
Currenly run 80+ raritan ksx boxes under the cc device with zero issue  
alot more expensive than othe solutions but the single point of touch  
is a life saver

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On 2012-01-30, at 6:44 PM, Christopher J. Pilkington c...@0x1.net  
wrote:

 On Jan 30, 2012, at 16:52, Robert Hajime Lanning  
 lann...@lanning.cc wrote:

 Avocent Cyclades ACS uses Cat5 straight through cables to Cisco  
 consoles.

 We have Cyclades ACS boxen also, but ours require rollover cables, not
 straight, when talking to a Cisco console. YMMV.




Re: recommendations for external montioring services?

2011-12-13 Thread Mark Gauvin
Solar winds as you send in the specific mib required to monitor and a  
week later it's general release


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On 2011-12-13, at 7:11 PM, Robert Brockway  
rob...@timetraveller.org wrote:

 On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Eric J Esslinger wrote:

 I'm not looking to monitor a massive infrastructure: 3 web sites, 2  
 mail
 servers (pop,imap,submission port, https webmail), 4 dns servers
 (including lookups to ensure they're not listening but not  
 talking), and
 one inbound mx. A few network points to ping to ensure connectivity
 throughout my system. Scheduled notification windows (for example,
 during work hours I don't want my phone pinged unless it's everything
 going offline. Off hours I do. Secondary notifications if problem
 persists to other users, or in the event of many triggers. That  
 sort of
 thing). Sensitivity settings (If web server 1 shows down for 5 min,
 that's not a big deal. Another one if it doesn't respond to repeated
 queries within 1 minute is a big deal) A Weekly summary of issues  
 would
 be nice. (especially the 'well it was down for a short bit but we  
 didn't
 notify as per settings') I don't have a lot of money to throw at  
 this. I

 Hi Eric.  The feature set you are describing should be in any  
 monitoring
 system worthy of the name.  I've used Nagios to good effect for the  
 best
 part of the last 12 years or so.  Before that I used Big Brother,  
 which
 sucked in various ways.

 I did an evaluation on a wide variety of FOSS monitoring systems 2-3  
 years
 ago and Nagios won at the time (again).  Generally I found the
 alternatives had problems that I considered to be quite serious  
 (such as
 being overly complicated or doing checks so frequently that they  
 loaded
 the systems they were supposed to be monitoring[1]).

 I'm currently trialing Icinga, a fork of Nagios.

 Puppet can be set up to manage Nagios/Icinga config which cuts down  
 on the
 admin overhead.

 Nagios/Icinga can be hooked up to Collectd to provide performance  
 data as
 well as alert monitoring.

 One concern about external monitoring services is the level of  
 visibility
 they need to have in to your network to adequately monitor them.

 My recommendation is to do a proper risk assessment on the available
 options.

 DO have detailed internal monitoring of our systems but sometimes  
 that
 is not entirely useful, due to the fact that there are a few 'single
 points of failure' within our network/notification system, not to
 mention if the monitor itself goes offline it's not exactly going  
 to be
 able to tell me about it. (and that happened once, right before the  
 mail
 server decided to stop receiving mail).

 There are a couple of ways to deal with this.  Some monitoring
 applications can fail-over to a standby server if the primary  
 fails.  But
 this isn't even really necessary.  You will arguably gain higher
 reliability by running multiple _independent_ monitors and have them
 monitor each other[2].  I have often used this approach.

 The principal aim here is to guarantee that you are alerted to any  
 single
 failure (a production service, system or a monitor).  Multiple
 simultaneous failures could still produce a blackspot.  It is  
 possible to
 design a system that will discover multiple simultaneous failures,  
 but it
 takes more effort and resources.


 [1] Sometimes I wonder if the people developing certain systems have  
 any
 operational experience at all.

 [2] A system designed to fail-over on certain conditions may fail to
 fail-over, ah, so to speak.

 Cheers,

 Rob

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Re: BGP conf

2011-11-01 Thread Mark Gauvin
Why would you want to advertise full verizon routes out to the ix? You  
shoud only be advertising your own network via ix

Sent from my iPhone

On 2011-11-01, at 7:59 PM, Edward avanti edward.ava...@gmail.com  
wrote:

 Halo,
 First, I accept this might not really right list for request, have  
 use nsp
 cisco list but only first post to was succeed, sent several other  
 for past
 4 day and none appear (verified by list archive) so please excuse  
 request.

 I am in need of a cisco config for BGP setup, we have a require to  
 include
 IX peering at new location as well as our Verizon link, we like to  
 take
 full bgp from Verizon and send to IX what they send us, I spend days
 reading google, and so many conflict web site example, so many  
 example seem
 insecure no prefix list so on. end result to date is only sore eyes,  
 would
 someone who do same (not need be Verizon) be kind to send us off list
 working running config (yes without your password heh) or at least  
 how to
 apply to BGP router including access/prefix list  and interfaces so  
 we have
 an idea on what do, if you take two full BGP feed from two transit
 carrierin load share and IX, that good, because that our stage three  
 plan,
 but I can work without two transit.

 I am not ignorant with cisco 7201, but am total newby to BGP.

 Best Thanks
 Edwardo



Telus mail server admin

2011-10-06 Thread Mark Gauvin
Looking for a Telus tech with a clue to contact me offline regarding an issue 
that has arisen this week.

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Re: ouch..

2011-09-14 Thread Mark Gauvin
Nat444 or frontal labotomy hmm let's see at least with the second I  
would still be able to make a living as a micro soft network admin;)

Sent from my iPhone

On 2011-09-14, at 6:07 PM, James Jones ja...@freedomnet.co.nz wrote:

 On 9/14/11 2:46 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
 In a message written on Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 09:24:25AM +1200, Don  
 Gould wrote:
 How many of you have sat and thought about the merit of this web  
 site?
 Ok, I'll take a swing at your list...

 * Does Juniper break promises?
 Yes.

 * Does Cisco break them?
 Yes.

 * What bad things and experiences have you had with Cisco, Juniper?
 It might take me several days, and many pages to compile that list.

 * What is the best technology for each company?
 Cisco: The AGS+ was ahead of its time.
 Jiniper: The Olive is quite nifty.

 * Did you know that Cisco has a 100Gb solution?
 Yes, but I can't afford it.

 Now, with that out of the way, how much does everyone else hate  
 even the
 thought of NAT444?

 :) :) :)


 Just the thought of NAT444 makes my stomach turn.






RE: OT: Given what you know now, if you were 21 again...

2011-07-13 Thread Mark Gauvin
Get an executive MBA then you can dictate to us lowly techs what technology we 
will use without ever having to know why. Plus you will earn 10x the $$$ by the 
time you are 30 without having to recertify every couple years.

From: Scott Berkman [sc...@sberkman.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 7:01 PM
To: Saku Ytti
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: OT: Given what you know now, if you were 21 again...

Saku nailed it.  Learn the networking basics and underlying concepts
(OSI!), everything else is an application that runs on that, and can
be picked up pretty easily if you understand what it depends on.
Wireshark (or your favorite capture tool) is your friend.

That said, I feel knowing some of the parallels like *nix and vendor
specifics (ie if you know Cisco IOS, many others follow this interface
like a standard) really comes in useful over time.

  -Scott

On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 00:28 +0300, Saku Ytti wrote:
 On (2011-07-13 14:08 -0700), Larry Stites wrote:

  Given what you know now, if you were 21 and just starting into networking /
  communications industry which areas of study or specialty would you
  prioritize?

 Again? Buy AAPL, INTC and MSFT with loan money and study *cough*, finer things
 in life.

 But in all seriousness, networking like I suppose most professions are not
 about knowing one thing and stopping. It's evolving rather rapidly so most
 thing you know now are irrelevant in decade or two. What you should learn is
 how to learn, how to attack problems and learn to love doing both.







RE: Multitenant FWs

2011-05-01 Thread Mark Gauvin
Paloalto Networks build some nice gear

From: David Oramas [david.ora...@aptel.com.au]
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 8:42 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Multitenant FWs

Hi,
What do you guys recommend for Multitenant Firewalls with support for over 
1,000+ users/contexts?
I have looked at Centrinet's Accessmanager and Barracuda NG Firewall. Any other 
players/products?
Many Thanks in advance for the input,






RE: Switch with 24x SFP PVLAN QinQ Layer 2

2011-03-02 Thread Mark Gauvin
Rad ETX 1002 and ETX 201A as CPE

-Original Message-
From: Nick Colton [mailto:ncol...@allophone.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 9:17 AM
To: Adam Armstrong
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Switch with 24x SFP PVLAN QinQ Layer 2

Adam,

Have you looked at the Calix E7 platform or the Adtran TA5000?  Both are
Layer 2 only.

Nick Colton
Allo Communications


On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Adam Armstrong li...@memetic.org wrote:

 Hi All,

 I'm scouring the Internet for potential devices to use in a FTTB/FTTP
 scenario.

 Requirements are basically just 24/48 SFP ports, PVLAN and selective QinQ.
 Most devices that fit the requirements are Layer 3, which pushes the cost
 per port too high.

 Has anyone come across anything I've not found yet?

 Thanks,
 adam.





Re: 6453 routing leaks (January and Today)

2011-02-25 Thread Mark Gauvin
Would love a pm on the platform in question

Sent from my iPhone

On 2011-02-25, at 12:23 PM, Paul Stewart p...@paulstewart.org wrote:

 Yes, very scary actually

 Human error is unavoidable - it's going to happen at times - BUT

 In our communities design, there has been times where we have missed  
 a tag
 on an inbound customer for example.  It scares the crap out of me to  
 think
 that something like that simple mistake could cause route leakage.
 Thankfully, anytime it has happened it would caught pretty quickly  
 and fixed
 - in the meantime the routes simply didn't leave our network (the  
 way it
 should be).

 Obviously the scales are different between someone like ourselves  
 and that
 of TATA - but the principles and common sense remain.

 Paul



 -Original Message-
 From: Richard A Steenbergen [mailto:r...@e-gerbil.net]
 Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 12:52 PM
 To: Jared Mauch
 Cc: NANOG list
 Subject: Re: 6453 routing leaks (January and Today)

 On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 07:22:36AM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
 Update:

 I have had a source ask me to post the following:

 -- snip --
 The problem with route leaking was caused by specific routing  
 platform
 resulting in some peer routes not being properly tagged.
 We are deploying additional measures to prevent this from happening  
 in
 the future
 -- snip --

 Hopefully someone learned a lesson about BGP community design, and how
 it should fail safe by NOT leaking if you accidentally fail to tag a
 route. Always require a positive match on a route to advertise to  
 peers,
 not the absence of a negative match.

 -- 
 Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net   http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
 GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1  
 2CBC)