Re: Good quotes on importance of good network addressing

2002-10-07 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thursday 3 October 2002, at 12 h 23, Scott Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure how applicable it may be, but the OpenBSD FAQ has referenced (since at least 2.7) a paper called Understanding IP Addressing that I found to = be pretty useful.

Re: redistribute bgp considered harmful

2002-10-07 Thread David Luyer
Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But not allowing BGP - IGP - BGP might be a good one. On the other hand, someone who is determined to screw up could do BGP - IGP on one router and IGP - BGP on another. I've seen that done. And usefully. The case involved an AGS+ (BGP

Re: redistribute bgp considered harmful

2002-10-07 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
I tend to favour allowing features rather than restricting them, if paranoia is needed then perhaps a confirm prompt? Dont forget tho BGP is used for things other than Internet routing eg VPN, VRF and in those cases I can imagine such redistributions being beneficial. Steve On Mon, 7 Oct

Re: iBGP next hop and multi-access media

2002-10-07 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
Proxy arp will still send the data thro the other router tho, the only difference is now router B believes router A to be the destination station. Seems like your worse off than you were before. (Plus I hate proxy arp in non-SOHO environments!) Steve -- Stephen J. Wilcox BSc (Hons), CCNA,

Re: redistribute bgp considered harmful

2002-10-07 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, David Luyer wrote: But not allowing BGP - IGP - BGP might be a good one. On the other hand, someone who is determined to screw up could do BGP - IGP on one router and IGP - BGP on another. I've seen that done. And usefully. But it's just too dangerous. Any

RE: iBGP next hop and multi-access media

2002-10-07 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Ok, so correct me if I'm wrong here (I'm just trying to paint a picture of what this thread is trying to conceive), RA-FA1: 10.10.10.1/30, RB-FA0: 10.10.10.2/30, 172.16.16.1/24 secondary? iBGP setup between RA RB, RB announces to RA with a next-hop of the primary address on FA0, RA announces

Re: iBGP next hop and multi-access media

2002-10-07 Thread Pete Templin
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote: When you setup a secondary ip on an interface int fa0/0 ip address a.b.c.d e.f.g.h secondary How does it determine where to send the packets? ARP. Which is the same as adding the route described above. From what I've read so far, it looks

Re: iBGP next hop and multi-access media

2002-10-07 Thread alex
A and B are connected via the same multi-access media. It is technically possible for B to tell A you can reach 172.16.16.0/24 on the same media that you receive this update on. However what people seem to be saying is that there is no dynamic routing protocol that implements this. Nope,

Re: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL)

2002-10-07 Thread alex
Hi there, What really confuses the heck out of me is that a company this size can't control/monitor their change management??. Then again not having all the facts has had everyone perplexed. It really should not confuse you. At least one year ago, there had been a Very Large company

Re: iBGP next hop and multi-access media

2002-10-07 Thread alex
Manually configuring a static route in router A would achieve the result: ip route 172.16.16.0 255.255.255.0 fa0/0 Why are we doing basic IP routing 101 on NANOG? OK, since it's so basic why don't you explain how to have router A dynamically learn from router B that there is a

Re: iBGP next hop and multi-access media

2002-10-07 Thread alex
I guess I don't know this because I've never tried it. But, how does the router determine where to send the packets for a route statement as specified above (ip route a.b.c.d e.f.g.h f0/0) ? When you setup a secondary ip on an interface int fa0/0 ip address a.b.c.d e.f.g.h

RE: iBGP next hop and multi-access media

2002-10-07 Thread alex
Ok, so correct me if I'm wrong here (I'm just trying to paint a picture of what this thread is trying to conceive), RA-FA1: 10.10.10.1/30, RB-FA0: 10.10.10.2/30, 172.16.16.1/24 secondary? iBGP setup between RA RB, RB announces to RA with a next-hop of the primary address on FA0, RA

Re: iBGP next hop and multi-access media

2002-10-07 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 11:40:11PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote: Manually configuring a static route in router A would achieve the result: ip route 172.16.16.0 255.255.255.0 fa0/0 However, I'm surprised that there's no dynamic routing protocol that allows you to do everything you can with

Re: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL)

2002-10-07 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Vicky O. Mair wrote: What really confuses the heck out of me is that a company this size can't control/monitor their change management??. Then again not having all the facts has had everyone perplexed. Actually I believe they have very good change management. Change

Re: Good quotes on importance of good network addressing

2002-10-07 Thread Scott Francis
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:49:28AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thursday 3 October 2002, at 12 h 23, Scott Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure how applicable it may be, but the OpenBSD FAQ has referenced (since at least 2.7) a paper called Understanding IP Addressing that I

Re: iBGP next hop and multi-access media

2002-10-07 Thread Ralph Doncaster
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Majdi S. Abbas wrote: On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 11:40:11PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote: Manually configuring a static route in router A would achieve the result: ip route 172.16.16.0 255.255.255.0 fa0/0 However, I'm surprised that there's no dynamic routing protocol

RE: Good quotes on importance of good network addressing

2002-10-07 Thread Irwin Lazar
-Original Message- From: Scott Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 10:56 AM To: Stephane Bortzmeyer Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Good quotes on importance of good network addressing On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:49:28AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

RE: iBGP next hop and multi-access media

2002-10-07 Thread Ralph Doncaster
Can someone please explain to me *why* are you trying to come up with *complicated* configurations as opposite to (a) defining your connected routes on all the routers that would be using it. I've asked because I wanted to know if any routing protocol redistributes information about

RE: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL)

2002-10-07 Thread Cleve Mickles
...so what exactly did we(AOL) do to get referenced in this email thread? Cleve... Cleve Mickles Network Architecture America Online, Network Operations

Re: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL)

2002-10-07 Thread Dave Israel
On 10/5/2002 at 12:30:36 +, Tim Thorne said: After reading all the stories about what supposedly happened does anyone know what really happened? Did UUNet US really do an IOS upgrade on a sizable proportion of their border routers in one go? This seems like suicide to me. What possible

Re: iBGP next hop and multi-access media

2002-10-07 Thread Pete Templin
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote: On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Majdi S. Abbas wrote: Ralph, how do you intend on getting traffic *OUT* of this subnet? Static arp entries on all the hosts? Proxy arp? It seems like that would be a lot more work and much more failure prone in the

RE: iBGP next hop and multi-access media

2002-10-07 Thread Pete Templin
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote: It seems pretty obvious to me that if you have a an ethernet segment with multiple routers on it that adding a secondary IP to each one is more complicated and error-prone than adding it to one and having a dynamic routing protocol notify the rest

Re: iBGP next hop and multi-access media

2002-10-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 07 Oct 2002 14:16:43 CDT, Pete Templin said: They are dynamic routing protocols, not dynamic gateway-creation protocols. You're asking iBGP to create an interface. iBGP (and other dynamic routing protocols) don't do that. I suppose they *could* - the fun then starts when you get a

RE: iBGP next hop and multi-access media

2002-10-07 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote: [from previous mail] Ralph, how do you intend on getting traffic *OUT* of this subnet? Static arp entries on all the hosts? Proxy arp? It seems like that would

Re: iBGP next hop and multi-access media

2002-10-07 Thread David Schwartz
On Mon, 07 Oct 2002 15:37:16 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose they *could* - the fun then starts when you get a routing flap and the other router tells you that you're not on one subnet because the subnet is unreachable and would you please remove the interface? And I'm willing to

Re: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL)

2002-10-07 Thread Petri Helenius
The assumption that it was untested is probably an unfair one. Once a network reaches a certain size, it is very difficult to simulate it in a lab. Number of routes/updates, variety of packet destinations, different card revisions and layouts... heck, even statistically, you have

Re: what's that smell?

2002-10-07 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
to that end why doesnt bind ship with default zone files for rfc1918 space as well as 127.0.0.0 ? Steve On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Paul Vixie wrote: since the last time we cleared the firewall statistics on c.root-servers.net, 1895GB of udp/53 input has led to 6687GB of udp/53 output, but, and

RE: what's that smell?

2002-10-07 Thread Jason Lixfeld
And to that end, I wonder how many of the bad queries are coming from MS DNS servers. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stephen J. Wilcox Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 7:05 PM To: Paul Vixie Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

RE: what's that smell?

2002-10-07 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Jason Lixfeld wrote: And to that end, I wonder how many of the bad queries are coming from MS DNS servers. to that end, i wonder how many of the bad queries are coming directly from microsoft campus. -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]

RE: what's that smell?

2002-10-07 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hope this doesn't come across as DNS-101, but is there some way to tell what DNS server one uses? Kinda like telnetting to port 80 or 25? I know if it is possible, it's just as possible for them to change the output, but chances are the brainiacs of the world who don't filter probably aren't

Re: what's that smell?

2002-10-07 Thread Allan Liska
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Hello Jason, Monday, October 7, 2002, 7:14:41 PM, you wrote: JL Hope this doesn't come across as DNS-101, but is there some way to tell JL what DNS server one uses? Kinda like telnetting to port 80 or 25? I JL know if it is possible, it's just

Re: Good quotes on importance of good network addressing

2002-10-07 Thread Randy Bush
For those with no prior experience in IP addressing, it can provide a nice bit of historical background. While classful addressing may be passe, knowing one's history never hurts. especially as we see echos of mistakes past being made in the v6 model, assigning large blocks, /64

Re: iBGP next hop and multi-access media

2002-10-07 Thread Ralph Doncaster
On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Clayton Fiske wrote: On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 04:25:00PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote: A and B are connected via the same multi-access media. It is technically possible for B to tell A you can reach 172.16.16.0/24 on the same media that you receive this update on.