Re: Verizon PSTN continued

2006-11-07 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, David Hubbard wrote: The thread yesterday didn't seem to get into much detail; I'm wondering if anyone knows more about what is going on with Verizon? Our PSTN service with XO seems to be affected again by what XO claims is a Verizon problem but they wouldn't elaborate

RE: 200K prefixes - Weekly Routing Table Report

2006-10-13 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, Fergie wrote: I'll bet you nickels to doughnuts that it won't make much of a difference -- in the fact that too may end-ASs originate specifics to attempt to engineer their traffic We got hit by this a couple of months back. We had held out from doing policy based

Re: NNTP feed.

2006-09-05 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Jeroen Massar wrote: seems to be loads of people doing a lot of posting and reading, where else would the volume of that traffic come from? I guess experiences differ from different organisations, when I discovered

Re: GoDaddy.com shuts down entire data center?

2006-01-16 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Martin Hannigan wrote: Here's the story on the big outage. http://marc.perkel.com/index.html Here's another recorded conversation. (Can you do this in NJ?) http://marc.perkel.com/audio/godaddy2.mp3 The GoDaddy folks are well trained. Kudos. While I do

Re: QoS for ADSL customers

2005-12-01 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Sean Donelan wrote: On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Kim Onnel wrote: Can any one please suggest to me any commercial or none solution to cap the download stream traffic, our upstream will not recieve marked traffic from us, so what can be done ? Step 1: Please identify how

Re: image stream routers

2005-09-16 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Matt Hess wrote: I'd like to get some feedback as to what people's experiences are (if any) with image stream routers.. specifically the industrial ones. http://www.imagestream.com/ Had a discussion with the manager of a large ISP in Turkey. He's a transplanted

RE: image stream routers

2005-09-16 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Christopher J. Wolff wrote: I'd be interested to know the relative pros and cons of switching packets in software (Imagestream) versus handing them off to a dedicated ASIC (Cisco, Juniper) Probably a good question for Imagestream to answer, as I can't speak to it. I'd

Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls

2005-08-18 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:44:59AM -0400, Eric A. Hall wrote: On 8/17/2005 10:04 PM, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: A new law that's apparently the first in the nation threatens to penalize Internet service providers that fail to

Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls

2005-08-18 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Sean Donelan wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Sounds like the standard notice that all reputable ISPs are probably already giving. Given the very real potential for grandma and grandpa to pick a number off a list which looks like it is in

Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

2005-04-27 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: I've been there -- I know how I feel about it -- but I'd love to know how ISP operations folk feel about this. Of course Bruce Schneider is going to allocate ISP's handling security so he can sell them more of his crappy Counterpane

Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

2005-04-27 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: Oh, please. If you think that the Internet should remain an every man for himself, wild wild west, Ok Corral, situation (not my words, mind you), then you better get with the powers that will steam-roll all of us if we let it -- money

Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

2005-04-27 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Brad Knowles wrote: At 8:13 AM -0400 2005-04-27, Greg Boehnlein wrote: As for security, intelligent ISPs will be monitoring their network and will have sensors in place to alert them to abnormal traffic (NetFlow, Snort, SNMP Traps, Log watchers) patterns and take

Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance

2005-03-31 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Brad Knowles wrote: [Deleted] What I really think we need here are some truth-in-advertising laws which are applied to oversubscription rates. That'd solve the problem really quick. How about we regulat the Internet like the Electric Utility and charge per

Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance

2005-03-31 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: [Deleted] I agree with whomever said it earlier -- remember that the global Internet is nothing more than a bunch of interconnected private networks. Yep.. And when you are dying of a heart attack in your house, and every second counts,

Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance

2005-03-30 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: Intersting article on ISP issues regarding competitive VoIP services: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreadingdoc_id=71020 Hmm.. I was quoted in it. -- Vice President of N2Net, a New Age Consulting Service, Inc.

Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance

2005-03-30 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Adrian Chadd wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2005, Greg Boehnlein wrote: That is fairly entertaining. Perhaps you could provide the financial breakdown for ANY DSL business model that doesn't rely on over-subscription? Q. How many, full-on 6 Meg DSL subscribers can

Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance

2005-03-30 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Eric A. Hall wrote: On 3/30/2005 11:27 AM, Greg Boehnlein wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: Intersting article on ISP issues regarding competitive VoIP services: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreadingdoc_id=71020

Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance

2005-03-30 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Bill Nash wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Eric A. Hall wrote: | to bear the additional cost of my customers choosing to use a | competitor's VOIP service over my own, says Greg Boehnlein, who | operates Cleveland, Ohio-based ISP N2Net. | | Without control

Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance

2005-03-30 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Brad Knowles wrote: At 5:06 PM -0800 2005-03-30, Bill Nash wrote: I find this to be entertaining, since as a VOIP consumer, I'm reimbursing my ISP for the cost of the traffic as part of my monthly tithe. No, that's not true. Not if your ISP has oversold

RE: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-02 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: Ah, and therein lies the rub. Any sort of QoS frob that is implemented for VoIP (or any other traffic for that matter) _must_ be truly honored end-to-end, and at every intermediate hop in between, for it to be guaranteed -- otherwise

UDP Port 80 Flooding

2005-02-08 Thread Greg Boehnlein
Anyone seen a rash of UDP port 80 packet floods lately? We found a huge flood of packets from an address in Taiwan flooding into a customer's IP on our LAN yesterday, which pushed traffic counts off the charts. Any idea what might be at the heart of this? -- Vice President of N2Net, a

Re: Spammers ordered to pay $1 billion

2004-12-20 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Gadi Evron wrote: Hank Nussbacher wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/12/18/spam.lawsuit.ap/index.html What a nice present for the holiday season :-) -Hank Indeed! If it will hold after the appeal. Thing is, the spammers are not there to be found for

ATM over T1

2004-12-01 Thread Greg Boehnlein
Hello, This is my first post to the NANOG list, so please.. be gentle! ;) I am looking at consolidating several different POPs in a specific city that include a mixture of Point to Point and ATM T1 circuits. My goal is to shut down all of the physical infrastructure in that city, cross