Re: [Nanog-futures] [NANOG] [in the subject line]

2008-05-05 Thread Lynda
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On May 5, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 07:20:17AM -0700, Lynda wrote: It is something that mailman offers, but there was certainly no need to use it. I manage mailing lists that do, and ones that don't. Personally, I'm in favor

Re: [Nanog-futures] Subject line Tag and footer

2008-05-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 5 May 2008, at 21:47, Scott Weeks wrote: I have been waiting to send this, but please reconsider the Subject line tag and the footer. It is very bothersome. If given a choice, I would opt for neither. But I can't say that I am especially bothered about either, either. I don't

Re: [Nanog-futures] Subject line Tag and footer

2008-05-05 Thread Scott Weeks
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- On 5 May 2008, at 21:47, Scott Weeks wrote: I have been waiting to send this, but please reconsider the Subject line tag and the footer. It is very bothersome. If given a choice, I would opt for neither. But I can't say that I am especially

Re: [Nanog-futures] Subject line Tag and footer

2008-05-05 Thread Scott Weeks
Just this alone Re: [Nanog-futures] is ~20 characters. scott ___ Nanog-futures mailing list Nanog-futures@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog-futures

Re: [Nanog-futures] Subject line Tag and footer

2008-05-05 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On May 5, 2008, at 10:31 PM, Gregory Hicks wrote: From: Joe Abley [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 5 May 2008, at 21:47, Scott Weeks wrote: I have been waiting to send this, but please reconsider the Subject line tag and the footer. It is very bothersome. If given a choice, I would opt for neither.

[NANOG] Larger packets to save power, was: Re: would ip6 help us safeing energy ?

2008-05-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 5 mei 2008, at 0:57, Adrian Chadd wrote: I'd seriously be looking at making current -software- run more efficiently before counting ipv6-related power savings. Good luck with that. Obviously there is a lot to be gained at that end, but that doesn't mean we should ignore power use in

Re: [NANOG] fair warning: less than 1000 days left to IPv4 exhaustion

2008-05-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 2 mei 2008, at 20:51, Mike Leber wrote: Since nobody mentioned it yet, there are now less than 1000 days projected until IPv4 exhaustion: http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/ Unfortunately that won't load for me over IPv6, path MTU black hole... ps. 1000 days assumes no rush,

Re: [NANOG] Did Youtube not pay their domain bill?

2008-05-05 Thread Steve Gibbard
On Sun, 4 May 2008, Paul Vixie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Gibbard) writes: The right solution is to design the anycast servers to be as sure as possible that the route will go away when you want it gone, but to have multiple non-interdependent anycast clouds in the NS records for each

[NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Gibbard) writes: ... if each anycast cluster is really several servers, each using OSPF ECMP, then you can lose a server and still have that cluster advertising the route upstream, and only when you lose all servers in a cluster will that route be withdrawn.

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , On Mon, 5 May 2008, Paul Vixie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Gibbard) writes: ...snip... But yes, Joe's ISC TechNote is an excellent document, and was a big help in figuring out how to set this up a few years ago. and now for something completely different -- where in

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread David Andersen
On May 5, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: But yes, Joe's ISC TechNote is an excellent document, and was a big help in figuring out how to set this up a few years ago. and now for something completely different -- where in the interpipes could a document like that have been

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Chris Grundemann
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Gibbard) writes: ... if each anycast cluster is really several servers, each using OSPF ECMP, then you can lose a server and still have that cluster advertising the route upstream, and only

[NANOG] Was Burma off the air due to the Cyclone ?

2008-05-05 Thread Marshall Eubanks
After a request, I can confirm that Burma / Myanmar dropped off the BGP tables here over the weekend : bgp.sum.May_2_00:07:00_EDT_2008: AS 9988 MPT- AP | 3 hops | as path 174 2914 9988 bgp.sum.May_2_00:07:00_EDT_2008: AS 18399 BAGAN-TRANSIT- AS

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On May 5, 2008, at 1:16 PM, David Andersen wrote: On May 5, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: But yes, Joe's ISC TechNote is an excellent document, and was a big help in figuring out how to set this up a few years ago. and now for something completely different -- where in the

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On 05 May 2008 16:07:03 + Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But yes, Joe's ISC TechNote is an excellent document, and was a big help in figuring out how to set this up a few years ago. and now for something completely different -- where in the interpipes could a document like that

[NANOG] Strange network behaviour

2008-05-05 Thread Douglas K. Rand
We had a very strange problem today. Two of our hosts could not reach a server, but only those two hosts. All of our other hosts could reach those servers fine. (OK, I didn't try ALL of our IPs, but the half dozen I did try worked fine.) I checked all of our firewalls and routers, and everywhere

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-05-05, Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also, in OSPF, ECMP is not optional, even though most BSD-based software routers don't implement it yet (since multipath routing is very new.) Some readers might be interested to know the exception to most here; the OpenBSD kernel has supported

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Roland Dobbins
On May 6, 2008, at 12:59 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: If not, what should the criteria be for an official note of the paper? Perhaps it's an oversimplification, but can't those who wish to publish such information simply deliver their papers at a NANOG meeting (after acceptance by the

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Tue, 6 May 2008 01:19:36 +0700 Roland Dobbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 6, 2008, at 12:59 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: If not, what should the criteria be for an official note of the paper? Perhaps it's an oversimplification, but can't those who wish to publish such

Re: [NANOG] Strange network behaviour

2008-05-05 Thread Douglas K. Rand
In the popular tradition of replying to my own post ... It seems that this problem started right around the time I changed our BGP configuration. I did: config term route-map att_out permit set as-path prepend 19317 19317 exit clear ip bgp 12.87.125.249 out This change was to increase our

Re: [NANOG] Strange network behaviour

2008-05-05 Thread Deepak Jain
Did your inbound path change as a result? Sounds like a path asymmetry issue might be involved. Douglas K. Rand wrote: In the popular tradition of replying to my own post ... It seems that this problem started right around the time I changed our BGP configuration. I did: config term

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steven M. Bellovin) writes: If not, what should the criteria be for an official note of the paper? Perhaps it's an oversimplification, but can't those who wish to publish such information simply deliver their papers at a NANOG meeting (after acceptance by the

Re: [NANOG] Larger packets to save power, was: Re: would ip6 help us safeing energy ?

2008-05-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 5 mei 2008, at 21:56, Mike Fedyk wrote: So if you have a 10 Mbps connection you don't get to send 14000 64-byte packets per second, but a maximum of 2500 packets per second. So with 64-byte packets you only get to use 1.25 Mbps. You have just cut out the VoIP industry, TCP setup, IM or

Re: [NANOG] Larger packets to save power, was: Re: would ip6 help us safeing energy ?

2008-05-05 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Iljitsch van Beijnum) [Mon 05 May 2008, 10:09 CEST]: PS. Am I the only one who is annoyed by the reduction in usable subject space by the superfluous [NANOG]? No, and I'm just as annoyed by the (non-McQ) footer with superfluous information attached to each mail. On 5

Re: [NANOG] Larger packets to save power, was: Re: would ip6 help us safeing energy ?

2008-05-05 Thread Nathan Ward
On 6/05/2008, at 8:02 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Of course not. Like I said, as an average end-user with 10 Mbps you get to send a maximum of 2500 packets per second. That's plenty to do VoIP, set up TCP sessions or do IM. You just don't get to send the full 10 Mbps at this size. Hmm, I

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Nathan Ward
On 6/05/2008, at 4:07 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: i dearly do wish that something like a service advertisement protocol existed, that did what OSPF ECMP did, without a router operator effectively giving every customer the ability to inject other customer routes, or default routes. This

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Roland Dobbins
On May 6, 2008, at 2:52 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: delay, because nanog meetings only happen N times per year, so an idea may have to wait months before it's widely circulated. congestion, because nanog meetings are of fixed duration and there is, and has to be, competition for the slots,

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 5 May 2008, at 20:50, Nathan Ward wrote: Perhaps what would make more sense here is Foundry (F5, etc.) building an anycast feature - anycast prefixes are withdrawn when a cluster relying on that anycast prefix goes below a threshold. I'm not sure exactly what feature is required, here.

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Nathan Ward
On 6/05/2008, at 1:19 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: Steve? I assume you meant Paul No, Steve Gibbard referred to not having control of routers, Paul referred to customers. -- Nathan Ward ___ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org