Re: [bcop] BCOP Task Force RIPE 86 - Best Operational Practices to Survive Natural Disasters or War

2024-05-16 Thread Luis Balbinot
tuations. > > As to the status of this BCOP, there will be no update at the coming RIPE > meeting in Krakow. If you are interested in the framework or potentially > would like to contribute with your research, please let me know. > > Kind regards, > > Alena Muravska > &

Re: [bcop] BCOP Task Force RIPE 86 - Best Operational Practices to Survive Natural Disasters or War

2024-05-09 Thread Luis Balbinot
Hello friends. We're amidst a significant natural disaster unfolding in southern Brazil, marked by heavy rainfall and devastating floods. I'm collecting as much information as possible in order to produce valuable feedback to other communities in the future and warn them about all the unpredictabl

Re: [bcop] A question about RIPE-690

2022-06-23 Thread Luis Balbinot
Hi. A separate one for each customer. Allocate the /64 and use whatever you’d like (/64, /126, /127, etc.) Luis On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 at 08:08 Xuo Guoto wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a question about RIPE-690. In section 4.1.1 it says: > > > Using a /64 prefix from a dedicated pool of IPv6 pre

Re: [bcop] Meeting of BCOP TF in Berlin @RIPE84

2022-04-25 Thread Luis Balbinot
That is a great idea! I won't be able to attend but I can contribute with anything that is shared online. We all fight, in different degrees, a daily war for the survival of our networks and there's a lot of apocryphal knowledge that should be shared. Cheers, Luis Em seg., 25 de abr. de 2022 às

Re: [j-nsp] ACX5448 & ACX710 - Update!

2020-07-30 Thread Luis Balbinot
I work with telecom companies for years and DC is the standard for pretty much all of them. If you have a small shelter or container you can deploy an UPS DC system with a handful of batteries that will last for hours and will not take much space. Look inside a mobile node B station and you’ll only

Re: [j-nsp] MX960 vs MX10K

2020-03-04 Thread Luis Balbinot
The MPC7E-MRATE is only good if you have to add a few 100G ports to a large chassis (i.e. MX960) that has lots of 10G interfaces and/or service cards. It's about 2/3 of the price of a new MX10003 with 12x100G. On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 12:45 PM Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 4/Mar/20 17:18, Tom Beecher

Re: [j-nsp] ACX5448 & ACX710

2020-01-21 Thread Luis Balbinot
The 5448 and the 5048 are quite different. I have several 5048 in my plant and when we questioned Juniper about a replacement with 100G interfaces their engineers compared the config template from our 5048s and said the 5448 wasn't capable of doing some of the RSVP and RPM stuff we were doing on th

[j-nsp] ALB on PTX

2019-11-22 Thread Luis Balbinot
Hey. Anyone else using ALB on PTX boxes (10K)? We ran into some balancing issues on a specific link and looking at the counters we don't see any counters incrementing. Is this expected somehow? It's a regular p2p circuit, no vlans or anything. > show interfaces ae4 extensive | match Adapt Ada

[j-nsp] PCS errors with PTX box

2019-08-19 Thread Luis Balbinot
Hey. Anyone here using PTX1Ks with multiple 100G LR4 links and third party optics? We recently started deploying a few PTX1K routers in some locations and we are getting some weird PCS errored blocks on LR4 interfaces. We haven't tested with the official Juniper QSFP28 module yet, but we tried wi

Re: [j-nsp] 40Gig Ether for MX480

2019-07-19 Thread Luis Balbinot
Same. Juniper is running WAY too late on an ACX5048 replacement with 100G interfaces. We had great expectations for the ACX5448 until we saw the price list being 3-4x higher than the 5048. Regarding the original question, I'd also check the MPC5 if your budget is restricted and you have slots to s

Re: [j-nsp] QFX5100 red alarm after power-off

2019-02-14 Thread Luis Balbinot
Ask your SE, it might be faster. But sometimes the piece of software that actually control those LEDs (and the whole chassis) runs on the OS that you have just powered off. Maybe the red LED means that there's no chassis mgmt at all. That's why we get extremely loud fans on power up and they calm

Re: [j-nsp] Avoid transit LSPs

2019-01-29 Thread Luis Balbinot
VP all the way to the PEs. Luis On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 at 07:03 wrote: > > From: Luis Balbinot > > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2019 1:39 PM > > > > I have many LSPs from P1 to P4 and all have FRR protection (Juniper FRR, > 1:1). > > Even with two distinct paths from

Re: [j-nsp] Avoid transit LSPs

2019-01-25 Thread Luis Balbinot
lthough I haven't tested this in forever) if you enable > no-node-protection under RSVP , that will prevent those interfaces from being > available for any node or link bypass LSP to use. > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 11:51 AM Luis Balbinot wrote: >> >> Please let me

Re: [j-nsp] Avoid transit LSPs

2019-01-25 Thread Luis Balbinot
> On Jan 24, 2019, at 3:24 PM, Luis Balbinot wrote: > > > > That’s a good idea. I’m not 100% sure that this will prevent the creation > > of bypass LSPs but I’ll give it a try. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Luis > > > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at

Re: [j-nsp] Avoid transit LSPs

2019-01-25 Thread Luis Balbinot
his approach or just keep using a very large metric on those links. Luis On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 7:02 AM Mark Tinka wrote: > > > > On 24/Jan/19 22:24, Luis Balbinot wrote: > > > That’s a good idea. I’m not 100% sure that this will prevent the creation > > of bypass LSPs b

Re: [j-nsp] Avoid transit LSPs

2019-01-24 Thread Luis Balbinot
An explicit path that avoids the interfaces you are worried about > Set the RSVP cost for the interfaces really high > > Dave > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 17:01, Luis Balbinot > wrote: > > > It's a permanent thing. > > > > Th

Re: [j-nsp] Avoid transit LSPs

2019-01-24 Thread Luis Balbinot
like the one we have with OSPF LFA would be nice. Luis On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 2:53 PM wrote: > > > Luis Balbinot > > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 4:45 PM > > > > Hi. > > > > How could I prevent a device from getting transit RSVP LSPs being > &

[j-nsp] Avoid transit LSPs

2019-01-24 Thread Luis Balbinot
Hi. How could I prevent a device from getting transit RSVP LSPs being established through it? I only want it to accept ingress LSPs destined to that box. Luis ___ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listi

Re: [j-nsp] inline-jflow monitoring

2019-01-02 Thread Luis Balbinot
>From 16.1R1 and up you should also configure the ip flow table sizes as the default is 1024 entries for v4 if I'm not mistaken. Not sure if this is your current issue but is something to consider as well. Also check flex-flow-sizing as an option. Luis On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 7:51 AM A. Camci wro

Re: [j-nsp] Configuration database stuck with mgd crashing

2018-09-03 Thread Luis Balbinot
Mini heart attacks :-) Now seriously, I’ve seen none so far. On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 07:40 Sebastian Wiesinger wrote: > * Phil Shafer [2018-09-01 20:28]: > > "commit full" helps when daemons miss config changes (which they > > shouldn't) or if you just want to say "because I said so", but it > >

Re: [j-nsp] Configuration database stuck with mgd crashing

2018-08-31 Thread Luis Balbinot
As root you can “mgd -I” to fix that. We also had the same issue and it’s been fixed on 16.1R7. We never opened a JTAC case for that because we knew the answer would be software upgrade since 16.1R7 was already out. The cause was Netconf and it randomly occurred. Strangely this was caused by the s

Re: [j-nsp] Carrier interfaces and hold timers

2018-08-15 Thread Luis Balbinot
Sometimes carriers protect optical circuits using inexpensive optical switches that have longer switching delays (>50ms). In these cases I'd understand their request for a longer hold-time. But 3 seconds is a lot. On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 at 20:02 Jonathan Call wrote: > Anyone have experience with ho

Re: [j-nsp] LACP hashing algorithm

2018-08-09 Thread Luis Balbinot
How many flows are there in total? Is there a test appliance involved? We had many issues with those in the past during service delivery tests. Also I assume you are using MPCs and not DPCs and also that you are talking about IP traffic. Please correct me if not. Luis On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 20:32

Re: [j-nsp] RES: QFX5100 vs ACX5048

2018-07-02 Thread Luis Balbinot
> I look into a preso I had and also this site… > https://packetpushers.net/juniper-enterprise-serious-campus-networking/ > > …and I see mention of the chip for the ACX5448 possibly being Qumran-based. > Not sure if that helps y’all. Yes, it is Qumran-based. 1M FIB, deep buffers, HQoS. *Sounds

[j-nsp] PTX as a PE

2018-05-04 Thread Luis Balbinot
Hey. Is anyone using PTX1Ks or 10Ks to terminate L2VPN/L3VPN services? I have a very specific situation on some sites where I have to terminate a few of those for my own management services and I don't really want to deploy another PE just for that. Are there any limitations besides some CoS stuf

Re: [j-nsp] mx960 to mx960 via ciena 6500 - mtu smaller in the middle

2018-04-17 Thread Luis Balbinot
> This issue is my turning up new MX960's that are simply connected together > with Ciena 6500 DWDM for me to have an MTU issue via DWDM is actually a > surprise to me. I pretty much always envisioned wave/lamda dwdm as darn near > like having an actual fiber cable... no, not the case appar

Re: [j-nsp] Transit composite next hops

2018-02-26 Thread Luis Balbinot
> My understanding is that "ingress" and "transit" in relation to CCNHs is > just a very misleading nomenclature. > If you want to go by definition CCNHs are pointers between VPN and NH label > -and transit boxes have no knowledge of VPN labels so go figure... > > But there are still several levels

Re: [j-nsp] Transit composite next hops

2018-02-13 Thread Luis Balbinot
only supports) its specific > CCNH flavour: > CCNH for ingress: MX > CCNH for transit: PTX (I didn't asked for QFX10k). > Olivier > > > On 10 feb. 2018 at 19:17, Luis Balbinot wrote : > > > > I was reading about composite chained next hops and it was not cle

[j-nsp] Transit composite next hops

2018-02-10 Thread Luis Balbinot
Hi. I was reading about composite chained next hops and it was not clear to me whether or not MX routers support them for transit traffic. According to the doc bellow it's only a QFX10k/PTX thing: https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/reference/configuration-statement/transit-e

[j-nsp] MPLS statistics SNMP issues

2018-01-31 Thread Luis Balbinot
Hi. Anyone else having issues with stalled counters on the Aggr counters from MPLS-MIB? My LSPs are resignalled a few times a day because of auto-bandwidth/reoptimization and after an event where the path gets rerouted elsewhere sometimes the SNMP process stops updating those objects until the pa

Re: [j-nsp] Experience with MX10003

2018-01-25 Thread Luis Balbinot
It's not the same chip, as Alexander pointed out. And it's not even brand new, it's been around for 2 years now. We are deploying our first 3 units next month and the only "bad" thing is that you have to use Junos 17.3, so be prepared for an adventure. But MX10003 is not better than MX960, it's d

Re: Numbering Exchange Protocol (NEP) ID.

2017-12-10 Thread Luis Balbinot
Yeah, these are not the people you are looking for. Talk to operators, they will let you know how IGP metrics are useless in today's networks, even the enhanced metrics you are proposing. You must take into consideration that almost all traffic engineering on large networks is actually done using

Re: [j-nsp] Syslog getting spammed by DDOS_PROTOCOL_VIOLATION_SET

2017-11-21 Thread Luis Balbinot
Saku Ytti wrote: > On 21 November 2017 at 14:12, Luis Balbinot wrote: > >> The DDoS protection factory defaults are very low in some cases. The >> Juniper MX Series book has a nice chapter on that. > > Do you have an example? Most of them are like 20kpps, which ismore > th

Re: [j-nsp] Syslog getting spammed by DDOS_PROTOCOL_VIOLATION_SET

2017-11-21 Thread Luis Balbinot
Most likely spoofed traffic or you don't have full tables or a default route. A /18 will pull a lot of unwanted traffic. The DDoS protection factory defaults are very low in some cases. The Juniper MX Series book has a nice chapter on that. On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 at 09:02 Karl Gerhard wrote: > Hel

Re: [j-nsp] Best practice for igp/bgp metrics

2017-10-25 Thread Luis Balbinot
you might as well assign same number to every > interface and use strict hop count. > > On 25 October 2017 at 22:41, Luis Balbinot wrote: > > Never underestimate your reference-bandwidth! > > > > We recently set all our routers to 1000g (1 Tbps) and it was not a > > tr

Re: [j-nsp] Best practice for igp/bgp metrics

2017-10-25 Thread Luis Balbinot
Never underestimate your reference-bandwidth! We recently set all our routers to 1000g (1 Tbps) and it was not a trivial task. And now I feel like I'm going to regret that in a couple years. Even if you work with smaller circuits, having larger numbers will give you more range to play around. Lui

Re: [j-nsp] Routing Engine upgrade

2017-10-20 Thread Luis Balbinot
If possible try aiming for a full system restart, it will be less painful and very straightforward (you'll need at least a one hour window). Your PFEs will go through a warm reboot anyway if you upgrade the software on the new REs. But please confirm that with your SE. On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 2:47

Re: [j-nsp] improving global unicast convergence (with or without BGP-PIC)

2017-04-20 Thread Luis Balbinot
Even on newer Junos if you don't enable the indirect-next-hop toggle you'll still see krt entries with 0x2 flags. On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Dragan Jovicic wrote: > As mentioned on mx trio indirect-nh is enabled and can't be disabled. > You could check with > show krt indirect-next-hop prot

Re: [j-nsp] Juniper PTX1000

2016-12-17 Thread Luis Balbinot
In fact looking at JNPR market cap, I'm worried of long term survivability of JNPR right now. I agree with you Saku. All they talk about is SDN and software solutions. We are trying to get a quote on PTX1Ks for a long time and they keep pushing back and want more details on our network, as if th

Re: [j-nsp] RE-S-X6-64G & ISSU?

2016-11-22 Thread Luis Balbinot
Depending on your arrangement with Juniper the price for a backup RE is negligible compared to the rest of the chassis (we got them for free several times). There's really no reason to leave a blank RE slot considering you have redundant SCBs. Luis On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Michael Hare w

Re: [j-nsp] SNMP NMS support of Junos VLAN MIBs

2016-11-22 Thread Luis Balbinot
Check out Observium. I don't know about this specific MIB, but it correctly detects vlan memberships for me. On Dec 9, 2015 14:32, "Chuck Anderson" wrote: > Has anyone tried to use or implement polling of the Q-BRIDGE-MIB on > any Juniper products, using either commercial or open source NMS > so

Re: [j-nsp] RES: MX10 - BGP and LDP sessions flapping without a reason

2016-11-08 Thread Luis Balbinot
An IGMP flood can easily bring the latest RE to it's knees. The default DDoS protection settings for IGMP is way too high (20kpps) on MX boxes and you should tweak it. On Nov 8, 2016 20:28, "Alexandre Guimaraes" wrote: > Niall, > Thank you for your help, I will review carefully your > co

Re: [j-nsp] Load balancing errors on 15.1R4

2016-10-21 Thread Luis Balbinot
this? Have you opened a case for this maybe? > > Best > Dragan > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Luis Balbinot > wrote: > >> Hey. >> >> Is anyone else having issues with load-balancing on 15.1R4? I'm >> getting these FPC errors in

[j-nsp] Load balancing errors on 15.1R4

2016-10-18 Thread Luis Balbinot
Hey. Is anyone else having issues with load-balancing on 15.1R4? I'm getting these FPC errors in multiple boxes: fpc0 LUCHIP(3) RMC 2 Uninitialized EDMEM[0x3ce333] Read (0x6db6db6d6db6db6d) fpc0 LUCHIP(3) PPE_2 Errors sync xtxn error fpc0 LUCHIP(3) PPE_15 Errors sync xtxn error fpc0 PPE Sync XTX

Re: [j-nsp] Communities on l2vpn instances

2016-09-27 Thread Luis Balbinot
e: Use the "strict" option to enable > strict mode, which checks to see if any of the LSP next hops specified in > the policy are up. If none of the specified LSP next hops are up, the policy > installs the discard next hop. > > Best Regards, > Krasi > > >

[j-nsp] Communities on l2vpn instances

2016-09-26 Thread Luis Balbinot
Hi. It's possible to set communities at the "protocol l2vpn" level in a l2vpn routing-instance at three different places: set interface xxx community yyy set site xxx community yyy set site xxx interface yyy community zzz But these don't seem to change anything. Documentation on these commands i

Re: [j-nsp] Best Place to Buy Used Juniper

2016-04-01 Thread Luis Balbinot
I got a quote from them a while ago, it's not worth it. The MPC we quoted is available to us new from Juniper for $35k, used from Hula for $10k and they asked $50k. Their prices float according to the relationship you have with Juniper. On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Colton Conor wrote: > Graha

Re: [j-nsp] Core network design for an ISP

2016-03-24 Thread Luis Balbinot
A good practice on MX480s would be to keep upstream and downstream ports at separate MPCs if possible. Depending on your config the standard 256M RLDRAM from some cards might be an issue in the not so near future. I'm not sure how much RLDRAM those NG cards have though. I don't see any advantages

Re: [j-nsp] setting named communities on static routes

2016-01-28 Thread Luis Balbinot
+1M Or a policy rule if it makes sense. Like IOS that allows you to apply a route-map to every network statement under the BGP configuration. On Jan 28, 2016 18:56, "Chuck Anderson" wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 02:30:52PM -0500, Jeff Haas wrote: > > > > > On Jan 28, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Chuck A

Re: [j-nsp] RTBH

2016-01-15 Thread Luis Balbinot
And remember that if you plan to accept prefixes from external neighbors and send to the black hole route you need "accept-remote-nexthop". On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Johan Borch wrote: > Thanks > > Setting route preference helped :) > > Johan > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:23 AM, Charles v

Re: [j-nsp] Cisco ME3600 migration to something with more 10 gig ports

2015-07-14 Thread Luis Balbinot
Take a look at the EX4550. Just pay attention on the number of routes it supports and see if that suits you. It's not a core router, but neither is the ME3600. On Jul 13, 2015 11:54 AM, "Aaron" wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm needing more 10 gig ports in my CO's for purposes of upgrading my FTT

Re: [j-nsp] Juniper hardware purchasing and delivery time

2015-06-26 Thread Luis Balbinot
Usually you'll get longer delays at the end of quarters due to a higher demand (great deals and price cuts). Someone from Juniper told me that large companies (with large orders) are to blame for some of these longer delays. Luis On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 7:35 AM, Paul Stewart wrote: > It can dep

Re: [j-nsp] Juniper EX4550 load balancing of MPLS traffic

2015-06-03 Thread Luis Balbinot
Thanks Mark. That's for a LAG, right? Not ECMP traffic. Luis On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:18 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 2/Jun/15 20:54, Luis Balbinot wrote: >> Hi. >> >> If I have two EX4550s acting as P routers and they are connected by a >> LAG how will

[j-nsp] Juniper EX4550 load balancing of MPLS traffic

2015-06-02 Thread Luis Balbinot
Hi. If I have two EX4550s acting as P routers and they are connected by a LAG how will the MPLS traffic be load balanced? How deep will the hashing algorithm look into the packets? Juniper says these EXs cannot do MPLS and ECMP. Is this still true? Luis __

[Nfsen-discuss] Running on 1-minute intervals

2015-03-13 Thread Luis Balbinot
Hi. I'm resurrecting the topic from 2011. I'm working on a DDoS mitigation tool and also needed a better resolution for my flows. The 300 seconds default interval is hardcoded in several files but it's not that hard to find and replace. The RRD structure is fine but could be better tuned for bette

Re: [BCOP-discuss] IPv6 through the MPLS core

2014-11-03 Thread Luis Balbinot
Thank you all for the help. I was really hoping there was more to it and a BCOP on the matter would make sense. But it seems that today it is pretty straightforward and easy without many caveats and undocumented features. I was also hoping for 4PE/4VPE one day... Thanks. Luis On Thu, Oct 30, 20

Re: [BCOP-discuss] EBGP Configuration BCOP

2014-11-03 Thread Luis Balbinot
4 10:23 PM, "Barry Greene" wrote: >> >> >> >> >> On Nov 2, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Luis Balbinot wrote: >> >> > This is not something we see a lot in the LACNIC region. This might be >> > a perfect example of a BCOP that is only good insid

Re: [BCOP-discuss] EBGP Configuration BCOP

2014-11-01 Thread Luis Balbinot
like something that was pushed down on us from the sales dept and not a good operational decision. Luis On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Chris Woodfield wrote: > > On Nov 1, 2014, at 16:26, Luis Balbinot wrote: > > Well, you shouldn't allow your AS customer advertise your prefi

Re: [BCOP-discuss] EBGP Configuration BCOP

2014-11-01 Thread Luis Balbinot
Well, you shouldn't allow your AS customer advertise your prefixes on transit links other than the ones he has with you. Actually, the other ISP from which your customer buys transit shouldn't accept prefixes from your CIDR originated by another AS in the first place, at least not without consultin

[BCOP-discuss] IPv6 through the MPLS core

2014-10-30 Thread Luis Balbinot
How do I do it? Really. I need it! Luis ___ BCOP mailing list BCOP@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/bcop

Re: [BCOP-discuss] eBGP Configuration BCOP - RPKI

2014-06-04 Thread Luis Balbinot
I share the same opinion. The use of RPKI is *not* a current practice and I still see it as experimental, even though the standards are there and I see a bunch of "validation-state" flags in my routers running stable software releases. The current adoption rate is too low to consider it as genera

Re: [BCOP-discuss] Update Public Peering Exchange BCOP - Call for Volunteer SMEs

2014-05-24 Thread Luis Balbinot
Hi. I think we should try to get someone from PTT Metro in Brazil joining this. In PTT Metro there are some peculiar situations, including large transit providers exchanging freely with all members of the switching fabric. I'd like to understand how they manage to avoid being exploited for free tr

Re: [BCOP-discuss] eBGP Configuration BCOP - Call for Volunteer SMEs

2014-05-23 Thread Luis Balbinot
I would be glad to help too! I think it would be relevant to include a topic on good manners. Yesterday I had a transit customer with a /21 advertising 15 prefixes to the global table. After a while I convinced him that a couple /22s would be enough. Luis On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Bill A