Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

2011-08-13 Thread Chaim Rieger
On 8/12/2011 7:02 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: Why? Unless you live in a HUGE house, you can do 10GE over copper to all rooms. Copper is infinately easier to run and terminate. I dunno about you, but 10GE is both out of my price range, and useless given the speed of my NAS disks, Comcast cable

Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

2011-08-13 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 8/12/11 11:59 PM, Chaim Rieger wrote: On 8/12/2011 7:02 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: Why? Unless you live in a HUGE house, you can do 10GE over copper to all rooms. Copper is infinately easier to run and terminate. I dunno about you, but 10GE is both out of my price range, and useless given the

Re: Home computer rooms

2011-08-13 Thread Jari Arkko
13.8.2011 3:18, Charles N Wyble kirjoitti: All, Related to my thread about home data centers, what are folks using to store compute gear in? Mine sits in two racks in my second bedroom. Cooled by ambient AC. Mine sits in a small room / closet under the stairs, in an on-purpose built for

Re: personal backup

2011-08-13 Thread Jake Khuon
On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 14:12 +0900, Randy Bush wrote: charles skipped what i see as a highly critical question, personal backup. Very good point. For my laptops, nearline field storage includes my laptop's drive and a portable external drive. Online and nearline home storage is a network

Re: Home computer rooms

2011-08-13 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 08/13/2011 01:20 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: 13.8.2011 3:18, Charles N Wyble kirjoitti: All, Related to my thread about home data centers, what are folks using to store compute gear in? Mine sits in two racks in my second bedroom. Cooled by ambient AC. Mine sits in a small room / closet

Re: Home computer rooms

2011-08-13 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 08/12/2011 10:56 PM, radhouan.all...@gmail.com wrote: Check the ccnsp book. They have I think what you looking for. Not sure what that is. Did some quick searching. Can you provide a bit more detail?

RE: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

2011-08-13 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Eric Krichbaum e...@telic.us wrote: I have a 12 pack of single mode run between wiring closets upstairs and downstairs. Only one server running feeding media to my xbmc's everywhere but quite a bit on gig. Nothing overly noisy unless you have your head in the closets. Eric Anyone got

Re: personal backup

2011-08-13 Thread Jeffrey S. Young
On 13/08/2011, at 3:12 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: charles skipped what i see as a highly critical question, personal backup. my life is on a 13 macbook air, all data, mail back decades (i do not save all mail), etc. the whole drive is encrypted, my main reason for moving to

Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

2011-08-13 Thread Robert Boyle
At 07:28 PM 8/12/2011, you wrote: I'm curious what other NANOGers have in their home compute centers? On the extreme end of course we have mr morris :) with his uber lab: http://smorris.uber-geek.net/lab.htm I have a 60KVA Kohler diesel genset (with DM550 controller and electronic governor)

Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 43, Issue 53

2011-08-13 Thread Dorn Hetzel
I live on a farm and I have a number of data runs between buildings that are copper ethernet pulled through buried conduits. (It was what I could afford when I put it in). We have trouble from time to time with damage from lightning. (I've taken to using an intermediate throwaway 5-port switch

RE: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

2011-08-13 Thread Eric Krichbaum
-Original Message- Anyone got experience with XBMC and similar linux media centre tools running on tablet or netbook class hardware? I like the idea of using a couple of el cheapo Android tablets with decent external speakers as music/video/TV/phone terminals, getting content from a

Re: OSPF vs IS-IS

2011-08-13 Thread Jeffrey S. Young
That's interesting and if true would represent a real change. Can you list the larger SPs in the US that use OSPF? jy On 12/08/2011, at 10:40 PM, James Jones ja...@freedomnet.co.nz wrote: I would not say ISIS is the prefered protocol. Most service providers I have worked with use OSPF. Most

Re: OSPF vs IS-IS

2011-08-13 Thread Randy Bush
That's interesting and if true would represent a real change. Can you list the larger SPs in the US that use OSPF? att is-is in ntt, sprint, verizon, ... randy

Re: OSPF vs IS-IS

2011-08-13 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2011-08-13 22:44 +1000), Jeffrey S. Young wrote: That's interesting and if true would represent a real change. Can you list the larger SPs in the US that use OSPF? ATT, L3? Anyhow I fully agree with the sentiment that in eu/us markets most SP rock ISIS. At one time when I was shopping

Re: Home computer rooms

2011-08-13 Thread David Swafford
I'm borrowing a room at mom's place for this presently :-D, as the 1 bedroom apartment was a bit too small! It has 2 racks -- a 2post and a full server cabinent. The racks are physically on separate sides of the room, so I've got a custom cable tray running along the walls, that's about a foot

Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

2011-08-13 Thread Joe Greco
On 08/12/2011 09:17 PM, Joe Greco wrote: What nobody wired their abode with fiber ? Am i the only one here I ran a bunch of fiber from the telco rack What's in the telco rack? This is in your house? What's on it? Demarc and lightning suppressors for T1, 2xISDN BRI, DSL, cable,

Re: personal backup

2011-08-13 Thread Joe Greco
On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 14:12 +0900, Randy Bush wrote: charles skipped what i see as a highly critical question, personal backup. Very good point. For my laptops, nearline field storage includes my laptop's drive and a portable external drive. Online and nearline home storage is a

Re: personal backup

2011-08-13 Thread Dorn Hetzel
We used to use DVD's for off-site backup, but that's not been the best of solutions. I've been experimenting with external hard drives but I am less comfortable with them; I've seen too many drives fail. The idea of letting them sit for awhile and praying they spin up later bothers me.

Re: personal backup

2011-08-13 Thread David Ramsey
When my parents finally got broadband years ago and I wired their house, I loaded Linux on an old x86 PC and stashed it in a corner of their garage. rsync over an ssh tunnel runs nightly from a Linux server in my house (about 90 miles away) to theirs. I don't sync everything, but it gives me

Re: personal backup

2011-08-13 Thread John Levine
Backups remain a tricky problem to get right. Yeah. I've been using external USB terabyte disks, which work OK but are irritatingly flaky. I keep thinking that this is what tape is for, but every time I look at AIT or LTO tapes and jukeboxes, they seem to be about a generation behind the disks

Re: personal backup

2011-08-13 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2011-08-13 16:53 , John Levine wrote: Backups remain a tricky problem to get right. Yeah. I've been using external USB terabyte disks, which work OK but are irritatingly flaky. I keep thinking that this is what tape is for, but every time I look at AIT or LTO tapes and jukeboxes, they

Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

2011-08-13 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet? Date: Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 06:28:57PM -0500 Quoting Charles N Wyble (char...@knownelement.com): Hey all, I'm curious what other NANOGers have in their home compute centers? I'm trying not to have anything. Mail, AFS fileserver,

Re: personal backup

2011-08-13 Thread Jake Khuon
On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 09:13 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: We used to use DVD's for off-site backup, but that's not been the best of solutions. I've been experimenting with external hard drives but I am less comfortable with them; I've seen too many drives fail. The idea of letting them sit for

Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 43, Issue 53

2011-08-13 Thread Greg Ihnen
On Aug 13, 2011, at 7:23 AM, Dorn Hetzel wrote: I live on a farm and I have a number of data runs between buildings that are copper ethernet pulled through buried conduits. (It was what I could afford when I put it in). We have trouble from time to time with damage from lightning. (I've

is First Media Service Limited a bulletproof hosting network?

2011-08-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 43, Issue 53

2011-08-13 Thread Dorn Hetzel
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Greg Ihnen os10ru...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 13, 2011, at 7:23 AM, Dorn Hetzel wrote: I live on a farm and I have a number of data runs between buildings that are copper ethernet pulled through buried conduits. (It was what I could afford when I put it

Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 43, Issue 53

2011-08-13 Thread Greg Ihnen
On Aug 13, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Dorn Hetzel wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Greg Ihnen os10ru...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 13, 2011, at 7:23 AM, Dorn Hetzel wrote: I live on a farm and I have a number of data runs between buildings that are copper ethernet pulled through buried

Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

2011-08-13 Thread Jeff Kell
On 8/12/2011 8:29 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: So what's in NANOGers home networks/compute centers? :) Surprisingly minimalistic - a Linksys cablemodem and a Belkin Play wireless router, both from Best Buy, a Dell Latitude laptop from work, and a PS/3. (I used to have more gear, but it

RE: Verizon Business - LTE?

2011-08-13 Thread Ryan Finnesey
I was hoping to use LTE for a large number of sites we are about to roll out instead of DS1s. But looks like we will go down the TDM route. Cheers Ryan From: Cameron Byrne [mailto:cb.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 12:56 AM To: Ryan Finnesey Cc: nanog@nanog.org;

Re: Verizon Business - LTE?

2011-08-13 Thread chris
I'm in princeton, nj and I recently moved into a new place and had no internet for about a week and had my router in client mode grabbing hotspot from my phone and it worked surprisingly well. Of course latency can be a bit jumpy but my speeds overall were better than the neighbors comcast :) I

Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

2011-08-13 Thread Arthur Clark
Adtran Netvanta 2054 FW Sperry Univac (1979, ~8U rackmount) http://oldcomputers.net/AIM-65.html http://oldcomputers.net/kayproii.html http://www.wap.org/a3/default.html On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Jeff Kell jeff-k...@utc.edu wrote: On 8/12/2011 8:29 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:

Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

2011-08-13 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Charles N Wyble char...@knownelement.com wrote: I'm curious what other NANOGers have in their home compute centers? On the extreme end of course we have mr morris :) with his uber lab: http://smorris.uber-geek.net/lab.htm In my basement: I use a Sparcserver

Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 43, Issue 53

2011-08-13 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Dorn Hetzel d...@hetzel.org wrote: Well, I would like to convert the whole outside mess to fiber to eliminate this problem, and the per-foot price of 6 or 12 strand single mode cables is pretty reasonable nowadays...  But, I'm not very current on the most

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-13 Thread Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo
You are assuming (as many, many people do) that public addresses equal no firewall, and that IPv6 CPEs will have no stateful firewalling. The thing is, just as they have a stateful firewall now for IPv4 they will have one for IPv6 as well. The fact that your addressing is public (or let's say,

Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 43, Issue 53

2011-08-13 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Coy Hile coy.h...@coyhile.com From: Alex Rubenstein a...@corp.nac.net The weakness will be only one provider of connectivity. Damn, and people claim I'm nuts! You know, you could go whole hog and multihome. This thread do give multihome a whole new

Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

2011-08-13 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Steven Bellovin s...@cs.columbia.edu Subject: Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet? The holy grail I'm searching for now? A GigE switch with POE, unmanaged is ok, and probably preferred from a price perspective; but with NO FAN. I

Re: Home computer rooms

2011-08-13 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Charles N Wyble char...@knownelement.com said: Related to my thread about home data centers, what are folks using to store compute gear in? Mine sits in two racks in my second bedroom. Cooled by ambient AC. I have an old pdp-8 rack (I didn't get the actual computer, just

RE: Verizon Business - LTE?

2011-08-13 Thread Ryan Finnesey
I have been very happy with the preference of the VZW network. Both 3G and 4G. The issue we have is that they have a 5GB cap. We have tested both the 3G and 4G HWIC for cisco and have been very happy with the hardware. Cheers Ryan From: chris [mailto:tknch...@gmail.com] Sent:

Re: Verizon Business - LTE?

2011-08-13 Thread chris
What plan are you using? My htc thunderbolt has unlimited 4g on the phone and for my hotspot so I'd imagine there is something similar for standalone hardware? chris On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Ryan Finnesey rfinne...@gmail.com wrote: I have been very happy with the preference of the VZW

Re: OSPF vs IS-IS

2011-08-13 Thread Jeffrey S. Young
On 13/08/2011, at 10:48 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: That's interesting and if true would represent a real change. Can you list the larger SPs in the US that use OSPF? att is-is in ntt, sprint, verizon, ... randy ATT's backbone is the old SBC backbone? Finding OSPF here

Re: OSPF vs IS-IS

2011-08-13 Thread Vinny Abello
On 8/11/2011 10:19 AM, Jason Duerstock wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:57 AM, CJ cjinfant...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, Is there any reason to run IS-IS over OSPF in the SP core? Currently, we are running IS-IS but we are redesigning our core and now would be a good time to switch. I would

Re: Verizon Business - LTE?

2011-08-13 Thread Kevin Day
On Aug 13, 2011, at 6:58 PM, chris wrote: What plan are you using? My htc thunderbolt has unlimited 4g on the phone and for my hotspot so I'd imagine there is something similar for standalone hardware? chris Verizon, ATT and T-Mobile have all dropped their unlimited plans. If you're on

Re: is First Media Service Limited a bulletproof hosting network?

2011-08-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Report = either that provider or its upstream, would be a good idea. As for discussing abuse, there's no indication of just what abuse you're seeing from that /24 when you just paste a whois record. --srs On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: Has below network

Re: OSPF vs IS-IS

2011-08-13 Thread Matt Addison
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 21:11, Vinny Abello vi...@abellohome.net wrote: One of my favorite features in IS-IS is the ability to set the overload bit during maintenance. The effect is the router on which you set it isn't seen by any other devices in the topology as a transit path, but you can

RE: Verizon Business - LTE?

2011-08-13 Thread Ryan Finnesey
We are looking to use the Cisco 3G/4G card http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11540/index.html We can pick them up for about $250 for the 3G and $350 for the 4G. From: chris [mailto:tknch...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 7:59 PM To: Ryan Finnesey Cc: Cameron Byrne;

Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

2011-08-13 Thread Bryan Fields
On 8/13/2011 01:59, Chaim Rieger wrote: On 8/12/2011 7:02 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: Why? Unless you live in a HUGE house, you can do 10GE over copper to all rooms. Copper is infinately easier to run and terminate. I dunno about you, but 10GE is both out of my price range, and useless given

Re: Home computer rooms

2011-08-13 Thread Michael Loftis
I've got a Danby portable type dual hose unit which works very well for my office. The single hose units are really no good for getting a room cool as they continually pull in outside air. It's pretty quiet, a lot quieter than the cheaper no-name unit it replaced. 12000BTU - it does really need

Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 43, Issue 53

2011-08-13 Thread Jared Mauch
On Aug 13, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Dorn Hetzel wrote: [[[ Note: If I could find cheap enough switches with an optical interface I would be switching to optical at this point! ]]] There are some media converters out there that take a SFP/GLC - RJ45 for $20-25, e.g.:

Re: Verizon Business - LTE?

2011-08-13 Thread chris
I have used 3G in the past as a backup for some sites and I was pretty impressed with the performance and the ease of configuring it in ios chris On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Ryan Finnesey rfinne...@gmail.com wrote: We are looking to use the Cisco 3G/4G card

Re: personal backup

2011-08-13 Thread Jared Mauch
On Aug 13, 2011, at 1:12 AM, Randy Bush wrote: charles skipped what i see as a highly critical question, personal backup. I've been wondering this as well. My home backups are somewhat large and not yet offsite due to their size. (~4.7TB). This is due to both purchased digital media

RE: Verizon Business - LTE?

2011-08-13 Thread Ryan Finnesey
The two problems I have with Clear is that it does not work well indoors (major problem for air ports) and that they will not route my IP block over there network. Cheers Ryan -Original Message- From: Kevin Day [mailto:toa...@dragondata.com] Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 9:11 PM To:

Re: Verizon Business - LTE?

2011-08-13 Thread Tammy A. Wisdom
Clear is an absolutely horrible ISP. It is quite common for it to go in and out and their modems overheat. --Tammy - Original Message - From: Ryan Finnesey rfinne...@gmail.com To: Kevin Day toa...@dragondata.com, chris tknch...@gmail.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Saturday, August