Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

2005-08-23 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 24-aug-2005, at 5:50, Susan Hares wrote: This is the first of many steps. And to be fair to the authors, the process got held up due to the base draft being re-written. So, the key discussion points are (as Yakov has indicated as well): a) Are there any technical problems with the sp

Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger

2005-08-23 Thread Chris Boyd
Apologies for this possibly off topic post, but it does touch on the future speeds and feeds of networks. What follows is my opinion, not employer's, etc, etc, etc. On Aug 23, 2005, at 4:42 PM, Randy Bush wrote: does not take much convincing in dc that what is good for big business is go

RE: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

2005-08-23 Thread Susan Hares
This is the first of many steps. And to be fair to the authors, the process got held up due to the base draft being re-written. So, the key discussion points are (as Yakov has indicated as well): a) Are there any technical problems with the specification b) Does the specificati

Re: BGP AS Sets in the wild

2005-08-23 Thread Danny McPherson
On Aug 23, 2005, at 4:36 AM, Abhishek Verma wrote: I was looking at route-views.routeviews.org for the BGP routes and i dont see any AS-Sets whatsoever. Are BGP routes with AS-SETs not generally leaked into the wild? Is this the case? Not quite, see below.. I am under the impression that

Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

2005-08-23 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Iljitsch van Beijn um writes: >On 23-aug-2005, at 23:55, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > >>> This is exactly why people shouldn't implement drafts except possibly >>> as a private in-house feasibility study. > >> In general, you're right; however, BGP documents have a s

Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger

2005-08-23 Thread Larry Smith
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 17:52, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: > And just to make life more fun, it looks like there's an effort > afoot to get VoIP consumers to pay (read: tax) into the USF: > > New taxes could slam Net phone users > http://news.com.com/New+taxes+could+slam+Net+phone+users/2100-7

Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger

2005-08-23 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 24-aug-2005, at 1:04, Michael Painter wrote: US is trailing other industrial countries in broadband penetration I'm not sure that's the case, AFAIK the US holds its own. Graph at the bottom of the article. http://www.mbc-thebridge.com/viewbridge.cfm?instance_id=304 No, the one you

Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger

2005-08-23 Thread Michael Painter
US is trailing other industrial countries in broadband penetration I'm not sure that's the case, AFAIK the US holds its own. Graph at the bottom of the article. http://www.mbc-thebridge.com/viewbridge.cfm?instance_id=304

Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger

2005-08-23 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
..and life is probably going to get a lot more interesting for service providers. All today, we have leaders in the field with completely opposite views of the word: U.S. Broadband Policy Exists -- And Works, Claims NTIA's Gallagher http://www.advancedippipeline.com/169600336 [and] Nortel chie

Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger

2005-08-23 Thread Daniel Senie
At 05:45 PM 8/23/2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 23-aug-2005, at 23:24, Richard Z wrote: US is trailing other industrial countries in broadband penetration I'm not sure that's the case, AFAIK the US holds its own. because no carrier is interested in investing and building an infrastr

Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger

2005-08-23 Thread Gary E. Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yo Iljitsch! On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > So I guess the choice is between lots of broadband against monopoly prices or > less broadband at lower prices? You forget the third choice the AT&T taught us so well before the big br

Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

2005-08-23 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 23-aug-2005, at 23:55, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: This is exactly why people shouldn't implement drafts except possibly as a private in-house feasibility study. In general, you're right; however, BGP documents have a special status. Because of how crucial BGP is to the Internet's function

Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

2005-08-23 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Iljitsch van Beijn um writes: > >On 23-aug-2005, at 15:16, Paul Jakma wrote: > >>> then i would prefer going ahead with the new solution and picking >>> it up if it works! > >> Well, in order to justify the hassle of invalidating existing >> implementations of t

Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger

2005-08-23 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 23-aug-2005, at 23:24, Richard Z wrote: US is trailing other industrial countries in broadband penetration I'm not sure that's the case, AFAIK the US holds its own. because no carrier is interested in investing and building an infrastructure to be shared by their competitors. The only wa

Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger

2005-08-23 Thread Randy Bush
Richard Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think that big carriers have successfully convinced regulators that > the telecom deregulation in late nineties was bad for the industry. does not take much convincing in dc that what is good for big business is good for america these days. > It certainly destro

Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger

2005-08-23 Thread Richard Z
I think that big carriers have successfully convinced regulators that the telecom deregulation in late nineties was bad for the industry. It certainly destroyed quite a few big companies, e.g. MCI and AT&T. Also it dragged down a few big companies, e.g. Verizon has $40B debt. In the meantime, US i

ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger

2005-08-23 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Dan Neel writes in CRN.com: [snip] The California ISP Association (CISPA) claims the merger of Verizon Communications and MCI will threaten ISP business models. CISPA represents more than 180 ISPs. Mike Jackman, executive director of the Sacramento, Calif.-based organization, said the multibi

Re: LAN to LAN dial solution

2005-08-23 Thread Crist Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest, other than using Cisco's a brand of UK-compliant boxes that effectively will perform a PSTN dial up function, so that when the two boxes are connected, the LAN's are effectively bridged together Basically what we want to be able to do is connect a PC

Re: Rip again!

2005-08-23 Thread Crist Clark
Chris Ranch wrote: In case no one else has suggested it: the source MAC address will identify the source. You can also can play with the routing tag within each RIP routing entry if your implementation is flexible enough. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

2005-08-23 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 23-aug-2005, at 16:16, Yakov Rekhter wrote: The IDR draft is awaiting implementation report. If this is true, it's very distressing. The IDR draft awaits an implementation report in order to advance the draft to Proposed Standard. What is so distressing about this ? A draft is work i

Re: KVM over IP Suggestions?

2005-08-23 Thread Daniel Senie
At 12:41 PM 8/22/2005, Aaron Glenn wrote: On 8/22/05, Simon Hamilton-Wilkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They support P/S2 / USB / Sun and serial - though are a very expensive > way to do serial. And (last time I looked, at least) they required an expensive, proprietary, Windows-only authent

Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

2005-08-23 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Folks, > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > > If this is true, it's very distressing. Drafts are deleted after > > about six months. That means that any implementations will be based > > on a no longer existing specification. That's wrong in so many > > ways. > > Well, mayb

Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

2005-08-23 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Bill, > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:53:45PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > > > On 23-aug-2005, at 11:53, Paul Jakma wrote: > > > > >The IDR draft is awaiting implementation report. > > > > If this is true, it's very distressing. Drafts are deleted after > > about six months. That mean

Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

2005-08-23 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Hi, > On 23-aug-2005, at 11:53, Paul Jakma wrote: > > >The IDR draft is awaiting implementation report. > > If this is true, it's very distressing. The IDR draft awaits an implementation report in order to advance the draft to Proposed Standard. What is so distressing about this ? > Drafts a

Re: BGP AS Sets in the wild

2005-08-23 Thread chip
On 8/23/05, Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 23-aug-2005, at 12:36, Abhishek Verma wrote: > > > I was looking at route-views.routeviews.org for the BGP routes and i > > dont see any AS-Sets whatsoever. Are BGP routes with AS-SETs not > > generally leaked into the wild? > >

Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

2005-08-23 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 23-aug-2005, at 15:16, Paul Jakma wrote: then i would prefer going ahead with the new solution and picking it up if it works! Well, in order to justify the hassle of invalidating existing implementations of the draft as it stands, I suspect there'd need to be sufficient examples of re

RE: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

2005-08-23 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Glen Kent wrote: Are you're talking about clearing the BGP session between the two remote ends, for the *analyser* to work? My understanding is: For the analyser, IFF it supports the current 4-bytes draft, to be able to *reliably* parse AS_PATH, it must either observe c

RE: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

2005-08-23 Thread Glen Kent
> Is it common or uncommon to fire up 'ethereal' or 'tcpdump' to debug > a BGP problem? I have done that a few times in my life (not that i have lived long enough like others in this list) > > Would it be problematic to have to either a) clear sessions for your > analyser to fully understand th

LAN to LAN dial solution

2005-08-23 Thread sbrillus
Can anyone suggest, other than using Cisco's a brand of UK-compliant boxes that effectively will perform a PSTN dial up function, so that when the two boxes are connected, the LAN's are effectively bridged together Basically what we want to be able to do is connect a PC on a LAN, so that at will,

Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays

2005-08-23 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 22-aug-2005, at 17:14, David Hagel wrote: This is interesting. This may sound like a naive question. But if queuing delays are so insignificant in comparison to other fixed delay components then what does it say about the usefulness of all the extensive techniques for queue management and co

Re: BGP AS Sets in the wild

2005-08-23 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 23-aug-2005, at 12:36, Abhishek Verma wrote: I was looking at route-views.routeviews.org for the BGP routes and i dont see any AS-Sets whatsoever. Are BGP routes with AS-SETs not generally leaked into the wild? Is this the case? I guess they aren't. I am under the impression that AS_S

Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

2005-08-23 Thread Andre Oppermann
Paul Jakma wrote: On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: I think I only felt the need to do this a handful of times over the last decade, but it's generally difficult to position tcpdump such that it will intercept the eBGP traffic. Ok. So that's a "not important" then. I'm inter

Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

2005-08-23 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 23-aug-2005, at 11:53, Paul Jakma wrote: The IDR draft is awaiting implementation report. If this is true, it's very distressing. Drafts are deleted after about six months. That means that any implementations will be based on a no longer existing specification. That's wrong in so many

Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

2005-08-23 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: If this is true, it's very distressing. Drafts are deleted after about six months. That means that any implementations will be based on a no longer existing specification. That's wrong in so many ways. Well, maybe that was a misunderstanding

Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

2005-08-23 Thread bmanning
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:53:45PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > On 23-aug-2005, at 11:53, Paul Jakma wrote: > > >The IDR draft is awaiting implementation report. > > If this is true, it's very distressing. Drafts are deleted after > about six months. That means that any implementati

BGP AS Sets in the wild

2005-08-23 Thread Abhishek Verma
Hi, I was looking at route-views.routeviews.org for the BGP routes and i dont see any AS-Sets whatsoever. Are BGP routes with AS-SETs not generally leaked into the wild? Is this the case? I am under the impression that AS_SETs are generated whenever there are some routes that are aggregated. Is

Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

2005-08-23 Thread Paul Jakma
Hi, The IDR draft is awaiting implementation report. There are apparently two implementations, one with field deployment, which suffices to move the draft forward. I happen to have one concern about the draft, and I'd like to ask on NANOG to find out whether or not my concern is of actual op

RE: KVM over IP suggestions?

2005-08-23 Thread nick.nauwelaerts
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Kevin > Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 10:27 PM > To: nanog@merit.edu > Subject: Re: KVM over IP suggestions? > > > We have a non-IP switch from Raritan and saw presentations on their > > IP KVM product