Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

[Mike Mainer]

I cheat...  I use the lab we have in house within the company I work for.
After all MXs/Ts/Nexus7k/etc. puts a heavy toll on the home power bill.. :-)

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Charles N Wyble
char...@knownelement.comwrote:

 Hey all,

 I'm curious what other NANOGers have in their home compute centers? On
 the extreme end of course we have mr morris :)
 with his uber lab: http://smorris.uber-geek.net/lab.htm

 I've got the following:

 Production rack (4 post AV rack)

 From top down:
 Current primary internet connection, soon to be out of band internet
 connection (Wimax from Clearwire)
 Ubiquity Networks Nanostation2 based AP (MeshPotato via the VillageTelco
 project)  serving up 3 SSID (bridge to main vlan, guest, honeypot)
 Linksys WRT54G T-mobile version  not doing anything at the moment

 3 dell optiplex 745s

 PFSense router (WAN to clearwire, LAN to Cisco 3550)
 AlientVault server (amazing software package)
 Proxmox server (another great software package)

 I have also considered turning all 3 machines into Proxmox boxes and run
 everything in a virtual machine. I like the Dell Optiplex machines, they
 sip power.

 APC UPS (considering a rack mount UPS and will probably buy one this
 weekend from the local Goodwill computer works store)
 PS3  gotta get my parallel hacking on
 Avocent Cyclades PDU (unused currently as my apartment wiring won't
 support it)
 Cisco 3550 Distribution Switch
 Cisco 2950 Access Switch
 Dell PowerEge 1800
 Dell PowerEdge 2800

 I've got a network lab rack (skeletek) as well. This hosts a 6509 and
 other fun things (cisco routers/switches). Pretty sure I can do any
 CCNA/CCNP/CCIE(RS) lab scenario).

 So what's in NANOGers home networks/compute centers? :)






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-Mike Mainer

Re: Ethernet performance tests

[Mike Mainer]

Exfo, JDSU, Fluke all offer hand held test sets that can run a rfc2544 (
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2544.txt) test.  Do you own the path between cpe
- cpe?  Remeber that for each km of fiber distance add about 4.9ms (one
way) of latency.  Do basline tests on your cpe gear so you know what you are
working with from the being.  Different tests at different speeds/cpe hand
off (1Gig fiber, 10Gig fiber, Copper @ 10/100/1000) so that all varations
are captured.

Did this at a pervious company, had to test everything in everything
deployable state.


On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Tim Jackson jackson@gmail.com wrote:

 We dispatch a technician to an end-site and perform tests either
 head-head with another test set, or to a loop at a far-end..

 We do ITU-T Y.156sam/EtherSAM and/or RFC2544 tests depending on the
 customer requirements. (some customers require certain tests for x
 minutes)

 http://www.exfo.com/en/Products/Products.aspx?Id=370
 ^--All of our technicians are equipped with those EXFO sets and that
 module. Also covers SONET/DS1/DS3 testing as well in a single easy(er)
 to carry set..

 --
 Tim

 On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Diogo Montagner
 diogo.montag...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hello everyone,
 
  I am looking for performance test methodology for ethernet-based
  circuits. These ethernet circuits can be: dark-fiber, l2circuit
  (martini), l2vpn (kompella), vpls or ng-vpls. Sometimes, the ethernet
  circuit can be a mix of these technologies, like below:
 
  CPE - metro-e - l2circuit - l2vpn - l2circuit - metro-e - CPE
 
  The goal is verify the performance end-to-end.
 
  I am looking for tools that can check at least the following parameters:
 
  - loss
  - latency
  - jitter
  - bandwidth
  - out-of-order delivery
 
  At this moment I have been used IPerf to achieve these results. But I
  would like to check if there is some test devices that can be used in
  situations like that to verify the ethernet-based circuit performance.
 
  The objective of these tests is to verify the signed SLAs of each
  circuit before the customer start to use it.
 
  I checked all MEF specifications and I only find something related to
  performance for Circuit Emulation over Metro-E (which is not my case).
 
  Appreciate your comments.
 
  Thanks!
  ./diogo -montagner
 
 




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-Mike Mainer